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.

  • JustEnoughDucks@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    You could do some much lighter selfhosted options:

    • Music server for self-hosted streaming if that is your thing

    • Work on security of the pi for TOTP backups or BitWarden hosting (there are some Linux hardening guides that are fun to implement and teach about security)

    • Syncthing for backups of phone non-media files (e.g. Tasker, daylio, OTP database, text backup, signal backup)

    • Mail server for having you own domain email

    • problebly many more ideas I am foegetting

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      3 years ago

      I like the mail server thing, but I’ve read on Hacker News that its a headache that is unworth it. Spam emails will flood the server, and my own emails will be sent to the spam folders of other people. Any experience with that?

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        3 years ago

        Many ISP will block email sending from their network anyways, so yes not worth the effort.

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          3 years ago

          I set up a mail server for a project. And just had to write with t-online. And I think I got on their blocklist because I did a mistake in configuring the dns records accordingly. All the rest worked fine following a good guide.

          When I have a personal homepage I will do a mail server, too.