Hiya!

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B set up as a print server, so it has to run 24/7. But it irks me that it’s mostly idling.

I’d move my website to it, but I don’t want to deal with it being open to the internet. The same goes for an e-mail server.

I was also thinking of running a Minecraft server on it. (Being able to play on the same world from different devices is kinda cool.) Alas, my RPi only has 4 GiBs of RAM. I worry that such a load would interfere with the print server.

Any ideas what I could run on it?

  • grantorinowhiskey@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Some great light lightweight apps for a 4GB Pi:

    • Homeassistant
    • Fresh RSS
    • Paperless NGX
    • Syncthing
    • PiHole or Adguard home
    • Syncthing
  • troglodytis@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Get yourself and adsb antenna and feed flightaware, flightradar24, and adsbexchange. Help track the skies!

    • b72@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Another vote for Pi-hole here. I don’t know how I lived without it before!

      • toman@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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        19 days ago

        I use an adblocker on both my PC and my phone. Does a Pi-hole have many advantages over that?

        • thejml@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          PiHole is DNS based ad blocking and local DNS for everything on your network. So, even things that can’t run their own adblocker.

          • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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            19 days ago

            Not just ad blocker, but tracking blockers too. Also, if you’ve got a simple little device like a WiFi controlled outlet switch, and through PiHole you notice it “phoning home” frequently even though you’re not using it… that’s a clue that you might not want to be keeping such things inside the same network where you check on your 401(k) account…

  • XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    I run a asterisk PJSIP VOIP server on my raspberry pi 5 8GB. I had to use the git and build and recompile and manually load all PJSIP modules because for some reason I couldn’t even find an asterisk package on apt db for ARM64 for some fucking reason. Also had to containerize it within a docker because the shit couldn’t properly compile without interfering with native system binaries. Shit is so fucking goated and can do PSTN via twilio trunking (call numbers outside of the phone server’s number base so basically anyone as long as you make the phone numbers parsed in extensions.conf for each country you wanna call XD). Currently works within LAN but I am planning on making it accessible over the internet using my domain and a tunnel for UDP if possible or just a VPN since my router is being a removed with SIP packets rn. I am having trouble with that part but once it’s done I can quite literally ditch any phone plan and use it. Twilio hardly even charges shit for voice rates 🤣🤣🤣. You could also self host your domain + email providing service and then connect that to thunderbird for full schizo-level privacy or sum shit. That’s what I do to ditch web-email BS

  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I run AdGuard Home, WireGuard and a couple of other things on my 4B, all in Docker.

    I used to run HomeAssistant on our for a while, but they stopped supporting that architecture (armhf?). Also used to run Unbound on it.