Hello. At the end of the last year, in October or November, I had this obsession or impulse to buy a Raspberry Pi. Don’t ask me why, because it was an ADHD thing of mine. Because I couldn’t find any Raspberry Pi 4 out there, I went to a Raspberry Pi 400, because it was the most similar device to a Pi 4. I was happy, I had a computer which ran better than my slightly old Mac Mini 2016, despite having 4 GB of RAM too.
And, since December, almost January, it’s collecting dust. I don’t know why I don’t use it, and I don’t know why I can’t take the decision to use it despite thinking about it sometimes. I can play games on my Mac Mini which I can’t play on my RP 400, but those games are still old, abandonware in some cases. But it’s struggling with few programs opened, including my browser, and I don’t like that, so I’m eager to use my RP 400 again.
So, tell me, what other things can I do with my RP 400, besides browsing the web, listening to music or playing emulators? Or, in other words, is a RP 400 better than a Mac Mini 2016 to do the same stuff?
I mean, whatever you want really. Think of things that having a low power computer that could potentially run 24/7 could do, that an desktop/laptop would be too expensive or noisy to do. I’ll give you a few examples of my use cases, though mine is a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB.
I have a couple of smart lights and switches, however the app is incredible bad and they have no support for Apple HomeKit, so I use Homebridge to control them and integrate into shortcuts.
Like you, I also enjoy playing games in steam, but I have a little too many games, so while I’m working ArchiSteamFarm is running to get me some card drops.
I also am quite fond of having multiple backups of things, so I pay an cloud drive to backup both photos and files as well as having an HDD connected to my RPi, running both Immich and Nextcloud for backing up promos and files respectively.