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submitted 3 months ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

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[-] Supercrunchy@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I use a raspberry pi 3b for running home assistant. even though it's not officially supported it runs quite well for my uses.

In the past when I had a public ip I had it run a small personal website and a wireguard vpn server to allow me to always ssh into my desktop at home (it was joining the vpn-connected device into the LAN, to the point where it was even getting the IP from my router's DHCP server...).

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