I thought about using my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ as a NextCloud server, but research told me it would be too slow to be useful. Any cool useful projects I can do, without any extra purchases? I’m extremely low on money currently.

  • ⁠ ︎
    1•3 years ago

    As a FREE* VPN:

    Get a good weatherproof enclosure for your PI, a solar panel, and a power bank. Configure it to automatically connect to any open WiFi networks (via bash script and cron) and then use said connection remotely as your own free VPN. Be sure to put the PI in a good remote area where it won’t be messed with, I’d suggest somewhere up high if possible, also if you’re using it for not so legal purposes I’d suggest doing it somewhere far away from your main base of operations.

    * FREE after initial hardware investments.

  • Tmpod
    0•3 years ago

    Interested in this too. I have mine lying around being useless, and idk what to do with it. For now, I don’t wanna host anything accessible out of my network (don’t want to deal with opening ports and securing stuff well), so it has to be some home assistant thing (dunno what, I don’t really have smort appliances) or maybe a media center (?). Possibly a little seedbox, but it would be rather slow ig.

    Any suggestion is more than welcome ;)

    • m-p{3}
      1•3 years ago

      I host a Kiwix instance. I figure that if the Internet goes down, at least I’ll have an offline copy of English Wikipedia I can read.