one of the most popular use cases: as a dust collector in a drawer /s
Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
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#22Buried inside a PiDP-11, connected to a VT420. Used mostly for IRC. Though I am considering using it to build a bedside radio/clock/alarm that doesn't report back to FAANG. https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
How do you know it doesn't report back to FAANG?
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#23one of the most popular use cases: as a dust collector in a drawer /s
I have mine on a shelf. When visitors ask me what it is, I tell them about all the awesome things you can do with it. It's great until they ask me what I use it for currently.
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#24Raspberry Pi B: Stream a local ham radio repeater (weather spotters) to Broadcastify Raspberry Pi Zero: Brachiograph Raspberry Pi 4B: Octoprint Raspberry Pi 4B: Home Assistant Raspberry Pi 4B: NAS (running Kopia as backup target w/ USB HDD, not speed-critical) Raspberry Pi Zero 2W: ham radio-related software for portable use (e.g. WSJT-X, etc.) using cell phone via WiFi as display/input via RDP To do: MiniDexed synth…
With this many pis, what's stopping you from buying an old workstation that can run all of those systems concurrently?
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#25Y'know, I still don't own a Pi. And I feel really guilty about it ...
Sadly now is not the best time to get started, as Pi prices and availability are in a Bad Place due to the Chipageddon[1] situation. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/27/chipageddon-ho...
I don't know if I got lucky or not, but I went into a MicroCenter, because I burnt the RPi 4 I was using for a hobby project and they had the RPi 400 kit in stock. They somehow had one loose RPi 4 2GB. MicroCenter will only sell them in store, it seems.
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#26Not creative, I guess, but I use a Raspberry Pi 3 for about 90% of my computing.
It's hilarious to use commandline tools to get a way better and faster experience than with a fancy machine. For example, watching Youtube videos faster, with LoWeRcAsEd titles for videos, and without clickbaity thumbnails, comments, etc.
Having to buy a new machine every X years is ridiculous in this day and age.
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#27I have one hooked up to a TV in my front room that gives me weather and live ETAs and visualization of the bus stops near my house:
https://blog.line72.net/2019/08/02/announcing-realtime-bus-t...
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#28Used one for quite some time as a Samba share and Plex server for music.
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#29I have one hooked up to a TV in my front room that gives me weather and live ETAs and visualization of the bus stops near my house: https://blog.line72.net/2019/08/02/announcing-realtime-bus-t...
I also have a very old pi hooked up to my other TV that is non-networked, and just plays random futurama (Original run only) episodes. No need to decide what to watch, my TV only plays futurama :)
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#30I am using multiple 4bs for WireGuard + pihole and cloudflare to setup my own global vpn.