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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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[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months 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.

[–] technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Skimmed the title. Brain registered words "rpi" and "linux" underneath it. Instant reaction: "Not another app package format please". 😶‍🌫️

I should spend more time reading properly & less time being an old man yelling at tech.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

As a general thing because I found myself trying to justify my Gear Acquisition Syndrome -- it's a good idea to split services across devices, rather than having some monolithic home server (which is where most people start). That way if one box goes down, it doesn't take down your whole stack.

If you have some machines scattered about doing different things, it might be time to consider logically grouping services and splitting them across that hardware.

[–] XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I run a asterisk PJSIP VOIP server on my raspberry pi 5 8GB. I had to use the git and build and recompile and manually load all PJSIP modules because for some reason I couldn't even find an asterisk package on apt db for ARM64 for some fucking reason. Also had to containerize it within a docker because the shit couldn't properly compile without interfering with native system binaries. Shit is so fucking goated and can do PSTN via twilio trunking (call numbers outside of the phone server's number base so basically anyone as long as you make the phone numbers parsed in extensions.conf for each country you wanna call XD). Currently works within LAN but I am planning on making it accessible over the internet using my domain and a tunnel for UDP if possible or just a VPN since my router is being a removed with SIP packets rn. I am having trouble with that part but once it's done I can quite literally ditch any phone plan and use it. Twilio hardly even charges shit for voice rates 🤣🤣🤣. You could also self host your domain + email providing service and then connect that to thunderbird for full schizo-level privacy or sum shit. That's what I do to ditch web-email BS

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

irks me that it’s mostly idling

Well it's a small processor and relatively efficient one at that so... how about going the opposite direction? How about measuring the power draw on idle? With other task? I don't actually know if that architecture handles that but I saw some things on the do https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100095/0002/functional-description/power-management/dynamic-power-management?lang=en

Also what about using a RPi Zero instead?

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'll look into how to make it draw less power. Thanks! That didn't really cross my mind.

Why not use RPi Zero? That would require buying additional hardware. I'd rather use what I already have.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

require buying additional hardware.

Trade with someone?

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

mine is my reverse proxy, using the nginx proxy manager docker install method

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Joplin notes. A really nice notetaking app you can selfhost. Simple enough but stil verry advanced.

[–] Trickle8305@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

+1 Joplin has been rock solid. It has features that make other apps a deal breaker for me. I host some work related notes, and share to a work account, that way not all of my notes are exposed to a work computer, yet don’t have to juggle accounts on my personal equipment. It’s wonderful.

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