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What should I use my RPi4 for? (biglemmowski.win)
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I have a unused RPi4 (the 8Gig one) running DietPi. I did use it as a playground but ever since I am renting a Hetzner machine for (playground) stuff that I want web accessible, I don't have particular use for the Pi.

I am currently running (outdated) Home Assistant on it but there isn't much I can connect it with (yet, getting the flashable/compatible ikea smart lightning zigbee? bridge thingy is on my bucket list). Obviously I do have a pihole there.

Shoot me any other ideas I could run there. Some kind of monitoring of my rented infra would be cool (I already have uptime kuma on the dedi hetzner box). One idea I had was if there are some OSS security scanning "daemons" I could use on to monitor my other infra.

Thanks a lot!

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[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 13 points 9 months ago

Vaultwarden is super, but I'd be hesitant to run it on a Raspberry Pi unless I had good backups in place. I've always run stuff off MicroSD cards with Pi's, but I'm sure there's a way to use real drives which would make me feel better.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

You could just plug an external drive in it

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

You don't need permanent backups of it. Vaultwarden is more like a secure "syncthing". I crashed a system with vaultwarden had to rebuild everything but after connecting it to my devices I got the passwords from them back again and nothing was lost.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah that's true, your devices will still have a cached copy. Still... losing the host would be a pain. It looks like (from the browser extension at least) I can export the vault, so maybe it's not as bad as it seems.

[-] cron@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

It has some amazing caching, but that doesn't mean a backup is not necessary or recommended.

[-] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I'm running mine off an SSD using an M.2 to USB adapter

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