Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

I have Raspberry Pi and I mainly use it for VPN and piHole. I’m curious if you have one, have you found it useful? What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

I'm working on turning it into a IR emitter to control some stuff that I have that lack remotes. I have another I've loaded snips onto an will be experimenting with soon - I'm currently using a PlayStation eye for the experimentation, but will have to get a better microphone/speaker. I wish I could hack a dot/echo/etc. and use their microphone/speaker, but meh, I'll take what I can get.

Also, the IR pi will probably drive some ambient light as well.

Media player connected to tv. (Kodi or Elec, I can't recall which)

What I found really neat about this is that if you use the HDMI connection, there is some automated setup/control that allows my tv remote to control the PI. (through the HDMI connection)

But also, the smart phone app for Kodi remote control added a new layer of interaction with the media player that is just sort of unique and unexpected. (everything worked so easily)

I use it to build a cloud backup system. My files in the computer will automatically sync to Raspberry Pi.

I have several, I use them for multiroom audio with snapcast (mostly with USB DACs although one has a DAC hat. Some have temp and humidity sensors, one has the rpi cam. One has a always on vpn connection and transmission running. For a while I used one with a Parsec client and cloud gaming. However, I use a Odroid XU4 for all the big stuff (home assistant, NAS, nodered, mopidy, etc.)