raspberry pi projects that survived past the novelty phase

the ones still plugged in, not the ones in a drawer

01
Pi-hole
02
Home Assistant
runs on a pi 4 with an ssd, not the sd card, learn from my mistake. actually stuck, definitly unlike most of these
03
Gitea
self hosted git, lighter than gitlab by a mile. good enough for private repos and issues
04
Uptime Kuma
05
WireGuard VPN
06
Samba file share
07
OctoPrint
runs my 3d printer headless. the webcam plugin makes it worth it, watch prints fail from the couch
08
PiKVM
nobody mentions this one tbh. kvm-over-ip for another box, so if I nuke a bootloader at 1am I still see the screen. ymmv on the hdmi dongle
09
Glances
10
RetroPie
the one project that's actually just for fun, no productivity angle. just mario kart on the tv
11
Magic Mirror

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