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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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[–] ravermeister@lemmy.rimkus.it 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Nextcloud is very useful, or a lemmy Fediverse Instance

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

Nextcloud seems a be an alternative to the G-Suite, did I get that right? That move to the cloud kinda missed me. I'm happy with LibreOffice and having everything stored locally.

Do you have experience with running a single-user Lemmy instance? I remember trying out some smaller instances, and they weren't as federated (i.e. I could see less content) than on the bigger ones.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Another vote for a music server. Gonic/Navidrome is pretty low power and super useful!

Home assistant is another option, but I'll say that if you're serious about home automation you'll quickly outgrow a Pi. It'll run if you only have a handful of devices though.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

I like the music server idea! Where do you get your music? Many artists don't even sell CDs nowadays.

Home assistant is probably not for me. The house I live in is still very analogue. I enjoy not having to debug software when investigating why there's no hot water.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

For CDs, Amazon, ebay, or discogs. Digital music I usually get from the artist's webstore if possible, otherwise I'll buy it from Amazon or BandCamp.

One heads up, Buying and downloading digital music from Amazon is a pain in the butt if you have an Amazon Music subscription. Easy and straightforward though without.

Apple music is also possible but you have to burn the tracks to CD using itunes to move it out of Apple's ecosystem.

I also hear good things about Tidal but I've never used them.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I did not know that Amazon sold digital music. But it kills me that Amazon and Apple are the two big choices. Out of the frying pan into the fire...

I thought that Tidal was a streaming service, and that you can rip music from there like you can from Youtube or Spotify.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

There's also a lot of smaller solutions, like smaller record label websites, and legacy music stores in whatever country you are.

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Another idea: dokuwiki, to document your process setting up various service for future reference

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

Neat idea! If I were that orderly (I'm more of the mindset that what I don't remember probably wasn't important), I'd set up a normal website. I enjoy writing HTML by hand.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

I've got Jellyfin running on an odroid, and it's pretty solid.

Not sure if you're the type to need access to your home network while away, but I also use a pi zero as my "login gateway"--I forward just port 22 to it from the WAN, and I have ssh set up to only allow logins with a key. I can set up dynamic port forwarding and tunnel through to my home network, and that pi zero has no other function (so even if I screw something else up on another server, I can still access my network).

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Kavita, Komga, or calibre-web? I love having a book and comics server.

[–] Cris16228 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.)

The latest versions won't work. It has problems loading the chunks.

Source: Tried it myself

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours ago

Thanks for the info. I won't even try then.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 1 points 19 hours ago

You can seed Anna's Archive, the largest public collection of texts:

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Can also do the same for scihub or archive.org but I think only on an individual basis.

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