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Is an old raspberry pi useful for anything based on Linux? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 days ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Get an external hard drive case and pop an old disk in it. Install Rockstor on the pi, configure it and you have a NAS for backups or whatnot. I've heard it's also possible to upgrade it to a personal cloud storage, but I haven't gone quite that far.