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Hiya!

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B set up as a print server, so it has to run 24/7. But it irks me that it's mostly idling.

I'd move my website to it, but I don't want to deal with it being open to the internet. The same goes for an e-mail server.

I was also thinking of running a Minecraft server on it. (Being able to play on the same world from different devices is kinda cool.) Alas, my RPi only has 4 GiBs of RAM. I worry that such a load would interfere with the print server.

Any ideas what I could run on it?

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Typically a web browser or dedicated app, but it's open source so there are options. You might be able to stream directly with VLC, not sure.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

You can use VLC if you get the stream url via a web browser, first. MPV can do the same.

The problem is VLC/MPV don't have a built-in way to browse and pick what you want to play.