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Raspberry Pi 4B (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by rook@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

As a complete beginner, what can I do with a raspberry pi 4b?

I'm basically completely new to networking and currently setting up a NAS. I have this raspberry pi 4b that I got but now can't think of a use case for it...

Any ideas of something that is very useful to host or have running on the pi4b?

Edit: I'm a complete beginner, and will use trunas on another server with jellyfin so my raspberry pi gets blown raspberries atm 👎

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Pihole is great, little hardware projects are fun (touchscreen calendar in the kitchen). They also make great emulators for old systems if you want to install a gaming oriented OS like retropie or lakka and get a gamepad or two.

I personally wouldn't use it for a server, but it's a good learning environment to figure out how to run services.

The beauty of the pi is it is an SD card swap away from doing a different job. You can buy a few fast cheap 16-32gb SD cards and play around with different options and operating systems.

Or you can do what I do: get it all set up, shut it down, and forget it exists until you have some wild idea.