I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I’m wondering what else I could use the old thing for. I see folks run Pihole on it, but I’ve already got 2 instances of Adguard Home running.

Could this handle Syncthing? Or would the data transfer be so bad it’s not worth it? Wouldn’t mind having an off-site backup device at my parents house if it would work.

Anyone else got one in their homelab?

  • Father_RedbeardOP
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    1 year ago

    Hmmm unbound does work with AGH too… Might have to look at trying this

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      1 year ago

      Using it for Pihole + Unbound also, but running on DietPI OS. I recommend trying DietPI, since it is is basically Pi OS on a diet, which is very important on such an old device. It has a lot of software preconfigured to make them lighter, using less resources etc. You should really try it.

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        1 year ago

        I will check it out. I thought it was the same thing as the desktop-less options in the Pi Imager.