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Ill keep it short and sweet, io have a pi4 that i tried to use for a couple of things and never really quite worked, whats a genuine helpfull thing to use it for? what system/program would be cool? multiple maybe?

how would an amateur that wasnts thing to just work that dont require an hour of commandline fiddling to work?

I tried a pihole, barely got it to work and never properly connected with the internet i tried retroarch, mostly worked but realized its way easier and more comfortable to use my main machine i tried funkwhale, never got it to install i tried invidious, worked on my main machine, never was able to connect via another machine on the pi (and with the program feeling a little in danger now i felt a lil iffy)

i request assistance and would appreciate it heavily, any and all alternatives, tutorials and help will be seriously considered

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[โ€“] MoistHoagie 1 points 1 year ago

Things I've used it for:

  • Emulator console
  • Also put one into an arcade cabinet
  • Octoprint for easier 3D printing
  • Pi hole
  • Dedicated seed box
[โ€“] Nicktar 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mine runs

  • a software raid as an external drive
  • samba to provide shares on this drives
  • minidlna to stream photos, music and video
  • rsnapshot backups of my server
  • docker-compose with
  • portainer
  • airsonic
  • photoprism (using a old usb stick as a swapdrive for ai stuff)
  • foundryvtt
  • paperless-ng

But each and every one of those apart from the software raid required fiddling, that's what the pi was invented for... To encourage fiddling and learning.