As a complete beginner, what can I do with a raspberry pi 4b?

I’m basically completely new to networking and currently setting up a NAS. I have this raspberry pi 4b that I got but now can’t think of a use case for it…

Any ideas of something that is very useful to host or have running on the pi4b?

  • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    There are some sites dedicated to suggestions, or if you download the pi image burner tool it has a bunch of OS suggestions in the menu, like Pihole, Kodi media box, home assistant, etc.

    I have a few running. One was setup as NAS and dlna music server using OpenMediaVault, one is a Volumio music player, my other one is Home assistant.

    If you like old 80s-90s games there is RetroPi.

    Too many choices really :)

    • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      For the NAS, what do you use for storage? Do you have an external drive hooked up via USB or something else?

      • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Yes, I bought a rocketfish drive enclosure years back, so dropped a drive in that, and attached vias USB. Never had issues with it.

        Assign as data drive in Openmediavault.

        Openmediavault had some plugins and settings to set folders2ram so that the initial SDcard OS is writting to RAM instead of constant writes to the SDcard.