Ill keep it short and sweet, io have a pi4 that i tried to use for a couple of things and never really quite worked, whats a genuine helpfull thing to use it for? what system/program would be cool? multiple maybe?
how would an amateur that wasnts thing to just work that dont require an hour of commandline fiddling to work?
I tried a pihole, barely got it to work and never properly connected with the internet i tried retroarch, mostly worked but realized its way easier and more comfortable to use my main machine i tried funkwhale, never got it to install i tried invidious, worked on my main machine, never was able to connect via another machine on the pi (and with the program feeling a little in danger now i felt a lil iffy)
i request assistance and would appreciate it heavily, any and all alternatives, tutorials and help will be seriously considered
Things I’ve used it for:
- Emulator console
- Also put one into an arcade cabinet
- Octoprint for easier 3D printing
- Pi hole
- Dedicated seed box
Mine runs
- a software raid as an external drive
- samba to provide shares on this drives
- minidlna to stream photos, music and video
- rsnapshot backups of my server
- docker-compose with
- portainer
- airsonic
- photoprism (using a old usb stick as a swapdrive for ai stuff)
- foundryvtt
- paperless-ng
But each and every one of those apart from the software raid required fiddling, that’s what the pi was invented for… To encourage fiddling and learning.