What services do you run/delegate to these things to justify their small but constant power usage?
besides ssh/vpn/samba/teledildonics/kazaa-d
>>55296660
>>55296666
I use a old laptop for SSH/VPN
>built in UPS
>built in management console
everything else I run needs something beefier than a passively cooled arm chip
>>55296660
Rtorrent, irc idling, NFS partitions. I'm also setting up Nginx at the moment.
I kind of want to create some kind of 2 factor authentication for my mail VPS that doesn't rely on gugel botnet, but I imagine that's going to be a lot of work.
Well, https://hackaday.io/project/11877-somatic-private-server for one, another to handle home automation (automated secrity and lighting), location tracking, my hydroponics system and security, another as a hub for all my equiptment at work (CNC, laser cutter, 3d printers yada yada), and other just sitting around looking pretty right now.
>>55296660
>teledildonics
anyone doing that please elaborate on your setup
Failsafe and firewall for my surveillance cameras.
Raspberry Pi
+ USB powerbank to protect myself against intruders who turn off the main power
+ 4G modem to protect myself against intruders who turn off DSL and/or power
acts as a firewall and VPN access point for my night vision camera
>>55296660
>kazaa-d isn't real
>>55297375
I hope you have sensors to detect when mains power is lost on that as well.
>>55297546
Not directly but when the WiFi disappears, it is safe to assume the power is gone
>>55297571
>not having a battery backup for your wifi
That's just inconvenient for yourself. DSL will stay up when the power goes out so long as you power the routers.
>>55297343
Just the tip: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Raspberry_Pi#QEMU_chroot
>>55296660
I keep my amps running 24/7 to keep their thermals balanced. They sound better and they last longer and it costs a non trivial amount.
>thisisnotacpu.jpg
>>55296660
I have so many old busted laptops laying around I see no point in buying one.
What's there to justify? It's like $2/year
>>55296660
Murmur server and syncthing for my phones photos
>>55296660 I use 2 of them to store my encryption keys in their ramdisks and unlock my computers with mandos. One day without login and raspberries will reboot.
>>55297723
What is that and did you make it yourself?
>>55296660
Seedbox and VPN.
>>55296660
>Mumble server
>Prosody server
>Kodi HTPC
Kodi really sucks on it, though. It hangs for a few seconds during video playback quite often and will lock up every few days, forcing a power cycle. I would guess it's overheating the Mali GPU or the junk ARM drivers aren't handling things properly. The development for the C1/C1+ seems to have died a quick death now that the C2 is available, too. Oh, and don't even think about attaching an external NTFS USB drive to these things. What a flustercluck.
However, it makes a great server. I would love an ARM-based board with SATA support to try out but I haven't seen one yet.
