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?

  • thejml@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    12 days ago

    PiHole is DNS based ad blocking and local DNS for everything on your network. So, even things that can’t run their own adblocker.

    • toman@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      So it can block ads in Google Chrome on my moms phone? Then I’ll have to figure out how to set it up!

      Do you often run into issues when blocking traffic like this? I can imagine some software (i.e. Samsung’s or Google’s bloatware) kicking up a fuss.

      • thejml@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        12 days ago

        Sometimes I’ve found a site that gets partially blocked and causes a fuss. There’s an option to allowlist domain(s).

        Also, some sites try to use ad domains to serve legit traffic, and some use legit domains to serve ads, so it’s not perfect, but it works pretty darn well overall.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Depends on the level of block lists you add. The defaults are pretty sane and it doesn’t need any configuration, you configure your router to use it