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I've got a Lenovo M720q running as my main server in my home and it's more than powerful enough for anything I could be doing right now. However, I also have a Le Potato lying around that I'd like to do something with. Any suggestions?

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[-] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

As mentioned many times I'm sure, I use my rpi's as a pi-hole/VPN. It's nice having them as dedicated devices for low power things, if my main server ever fudges up, my VPN still works and internal DNS is still resolved. If I'm not home and get complaints from the family that jellyfin isn't working, I can either fix it remotely or wake up my dev server for them to use in the meantime.

I also have an rpi 1 as a "dedicated ssh machine" that I can ssh into in case all of my other machines have gone goofy. If for any reason my two main devices aren't accessible, that one will be because if there's power to the house it will turn on. It does literally nothing else, so there's very little chance a power outage will corrupt anything. It does require that the pivpn device is working if I'm not home, but I prefer to leave that to it's own ...devices.

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