• umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      26·
      20 days ago

      For any printer. You never know what it’s doing without a firewall solution. USB is always the safest option.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        20 days ago

        It’s very well-known, Apple of all companies is the developer. It’s just used more by companies than consumers.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        20 days ago

        This is common in the IT world. Printers are such painful devices and installing drivers on every Windows desktop just adds to the pain, but by doing this you don’t need to install drivers, as Linux can serve something that doesn’t need drivers to print to.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    20 days ago

    Pi-Hole always tops my list as a cool project that has definite benefits and will still be in service after the new wears off. It’s been quite a while ago, but I built an Alexa with an RPI. That was kind of cool. Home Assistant on an RPI is pretty cool. In fact, there is a whole list of cool stuff to do with an RPI: https://pimylifeup.com/category/projects/ . There’s also an Awesome list for the RPI: https://github.com/thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      20 days ago

      PiHole is becoming a bit heavy for my Zero W (uses the same chip as the original Pi series), and it’s the only thing the Pi runs. It’s a bit worrying.

      • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        Do you worry about that Zero being deauthed since it uses 2.4 only still?

        I ask as I’m having somewhat of a bit of lag / delay or something I need to look further into later with a Zero/DVBHAT + between my RPi5 / router which is using as its DNS provider (AdguardHome) and because I still use a 2.4GhZ camera (which has also been playing up recently…), got me thinking about having all the cams / Pi’s / SFF PC’s not only hard wired, but turning off the 2.4GhZ weefee altogether on the router due to Flippers and shit.

        tldr: should I care?

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          18 days ago

          My Zero W lives in a Geekworm case with an RJ45 port, so it’s wired directly to the router. I likely won’t be using it for anything else at this point. Even just opening the web UI bogs it down pretty heavy.

          Thought I just realized it’s still running Raspbian (11, not 12), so maybe I’ll look at running DietPi.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    20 days ago

    Tons of typical self-hosted services, like vault warden, actual budget, etc.

    But for something that old, I’m thinking more along the lines of RC cars and other projects involving the GPIO. I’ll reserve my newer ones for self-hosting stuff, older stuff for things that don’t benefit much from extra processing power.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    101·
    20 days ago

    An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    20 days ago

    Take a look at the Linuxserver Docker images. They curate a huge list of self hosted apps that is great to browse and look for ideas. You don’t need to run Docker and use their images - I’m just suggesting review their list of apps they support to get some ideas of what’s out there.

    That Pi is too old to handle any media tasks (like running a Jellyfin server), but for any low intensity duties it’s still perfectly usable.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      19 days ago

      I’m just suggesting review their list of apps they support to get some ideas of what’s out there.

      Ahh my people. Another list searcher. LOL

  • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.devEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    I took an old pi and threw a flight tracker on there. Now i have premium accounts on FR24, FlightAware, and ADS-B Exchange.

    I have a few other pis which run other stuff though, my favorite thing to do is install nginx proxy manager and tailscale, then use it as an entry point to my network (this was born out of my main server being a bit unstable, which i have since fixed but kept NPM off of it because the pi is pretty much set and forget)

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      18 days ago

      Is thebflighttracker like an OS designed for adding accounts to or just a orogram?

      sorry for the stupid question, it sounds cool and I have no experience.

      • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.devEnglish
        1·
        18 days ago

        It’s a program that uses an SDR to pick up the signals broadcasted by planes (ADS-B) containing their flight information. Then the data gets uploaded to an aggregator (FR24, Flight Aware, ADS-B Exchange) that gives a global view of all planes in the sky.

        You can use the aggregators for free without uploading, but you get some perks for being a contributor. I just do it because it’s cool and I use the platforms for getting info on flights I’m taking (you can tell if your flight is gonna be delayed if the plane is delayed elsewhere for example).

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    20 days ago

    I was poking around the Raspberry imager utility and they had RISC OS, which is and old operating system that was apparently fairly popular in the UK, but I’d never heard of it in the US. I loaded it up on my Pi 1 and had fun exploring it. Not exactly useful, but cool to mess with: RISC OS

    • suth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      18 days ago

      Might be worth a shot but unfortunately Octoprint recommends at least a Pi 3. I tried it myself on a 2B and had nonstop issues with print quality from stutters while the Pi was sending gcode to the printer. As soon as I swapped to a 4B the problems disappeared.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      20 days ago

      I wonder how well that would run on a 700MHz ARM CPU with a maximum of 512 MB RAM…

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        20 days ago

        The VPN speeds will be throttled pretty substantially, and low ram will result in some instability seeding, but it should run. Good thing about torrents is they’re built for unreliable.

        I’ve run a torrent box like described on pretty much every pi generation, and the pi4 was the first one where VPN speed was no longer the bottleneck.