So i have a pi5 8gb sorta collecting dust, ive mess with it a little but i have a laptop and im not sure what use to give the pi 5? i wanted to explore ai stuff but ai requires a powerhouse of a device? Im also thought about nas but i feel i dont need nas right now?
What would you advise i do with my pi?
Pi hole for blocking ads or Samba server for fileshare.
Send it to me, I have plans.
Sell it for double your money back.
I literally had the the same pi collecting dust. I put it in an aluminum enclosure with an M2 bus, added a spare drive, and put home assistant os on it. SUPER FUN. now all those sensors and ESP32s I have can provide meaningful use to my life.
Pi hole if you don’t have one, others have mentioned home assist, you could also look at ubo pod, although that isn’t out yet. Really just use it to host whatever you want
CasaOS seems like an easy alternative for a multi purpose server
RetroPie? A Pi can handle most of the older, amazing games.
Pi4 is better for anything with video as it has a a hardware decoder. They dropped the hardware decoder in the Pi5 and I think you need to buy an extra module to have one for them.
Oh wow, thank you. I didn’t know that!
Set up a Tor Relay. Help the Tor network.
Look up Pi-Hole, it’s an adblocker for your whole home network. It blocks ads at the DNS level
The wife and I made a retro game console. But we mostly use it for kodi
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ or https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
seti@home:
You basically donate computing power to a project looking for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
I had a spare Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and I made mine a watch showing time, weather and it shows me the latest Hackernews headlines on a 320x480 touch screen. :)
https://www.seti.org/news/seti-at-home-going-into-hibernation/
UC Berkeley has announced that the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and go into hibernation on March 31.
Then jump to Einstein@Home. They optimize their workloads for ARM64 architecture. Stop looking for aliens and start looking for pulsars.
Desktop PC
Set up Pinchflat, automatically download podcast audio without ads, connect your podcast app to it via an rss feed.
Fuck yeah, thank you.
Mine runs Orb and Tailscale as an exit node.
What do these things mean?
https://orb.net/ monitors your internet performance.
https://tailscale.com/ access your home internet or devices when you’re away from home. Usually only helpful if you have a NAS, but I’ve used it to stream tv shows without having to get bothered or blocked because the service can only be used in the US. I watched some NFL over youtubetv while in Germany for example.
Folding@Home
Distributed computing project that allows you to contribute CPU cycles to scientists searching for cures for things like Alzheimer’s and cancer.
If you have access to someone with a 3d or can find the parts online; you could build a gameboy with it.
