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I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I'm wondering what else I could use the old thing for. I see folks run Pihole on it, but I've already got 2 instances of Adguard Home running.

Could this handle Syncthing? Or would the data transfer be so bad it's not worth it? Wouldn't mind having an off-site backup device at my parents house if it would work.

Anyone else got one in their homelab?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make a Pi-hole for friends/family, unless you want to build discrete hardware projects that don’t need a fast CPU. My 17-year-old niece is doing breadboard projects on this gen of Pi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an idea. Might have to do it for my parents. Using their internet is darn near impossible without ad blocking :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a mitzvah indeed!

Have also heard of adult children installing Pi-holes in their parents’ houses to stop them from visiting Qanon hotbeds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's great. Thankfully my parents have steered well clear of that mess. But would help to not click on the more "convincing" ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We can’t be far from the first wave of uniquely targeted scam ads with faked photos/audio/video of the user’s friends, family, boss, etc.

My mother-in-law sent thousands of dollars for years to a fake UN official.