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What do you guys do with your PIs? I almost got one to use as a pihole server but thought it'd be a waste of money if that's all I'm gonna do with it (running standalone piholes on my desktop and laptop now). Still interested if there's anything I can use them for. ๐
I used them for pihole & unbound, qbittorrent, local http server and kiwix. I would still use one because they use like 5W max, but I had issues and running all these things on bare-metal is a pain. Now I run all my stuff (now adguard instead of pihole) on a small computer < 20W in proxmox. It sadly is totally worth using more power for this.
I use one as a Pi-hole server. It is amazing realizing how many ads are on the internet now. Especially good for blocking for Android.
Husband uses a Pi for his model rockets - getting telemetry data. We have previously used it as a microcontroller for a homebrew homebrewing cooler.
Yeah. Ads are terrible now. I'm glad for stuff like ublock and pihole. The net would be painful to browse without them.
Model rockets sounds awesome, ngl. I don't think I have the brainpower for that hobby, though. Lmao.
I just used it for a project for college. I wanna put a pihole on it as well (mainly for phone), just never got around to it years later. I gave my spare to my boyfriend tho and he is using it as a media server.
For some reason this did not occur to me. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
I need to get my brain checked.