submitted 1 year ago by Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I'm wondering what else I could use the old thing for. I see folks run Pihole on it, but I've already got 2 instances of Adguard Home running.

Could this handle Syncthing? Or would the data transfer be so bad it's not worth it? Wouldn't mind having an off-site backup device at my parents house if it would work.

Anyone else got one in their homelab?

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[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I had a really important role of my Pi 1 B+ for a long time; it was a network storage for my PlayStation 2 to play ISOs from the network with Free McBoot and Open PS2 Loader.

grabbed a big HDD, and old CD drive case and put everything inside. The Pi could be powered from the PS2s USB, hooked up a short network cable and it was ready to go.

Tho I still have that PS2, it's not in use anymore, so neither the Pi.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

nice, it wasn't where you could do that with the PlayStation 2

[-] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's great. I wonder if the same could be done on the original Xbox. I believe it had the ability to play over network connection from ISOs on a PC if modded. I have one kicking around that I have yet to put a bigger HDD in.

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

the PS2 needed only just a Windows Network share (SMB). I guess the XBOX too should have an option for that, so I don't see any problem with it

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