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easy to setup and use, usecases for pi 5 (self.raspberrypi)

submitted 2 days ago by Mandy to c/[email protected]

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I'm notbtue smartest person and I consider myself tech cursed.
Had a pi4 for a while, used it for retropi for a few weeks by the the became kinda bothersome.
The one time I managed to get pihole running on it it blocked not just ads but entire sites so that wasn't ideal.
For the pi 5 I used it for a Minecraft server but I had to restart every other day for some reason to be usable.

So what is an easy to use or no think thing I could use a pi 5 for?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Install docker.

Terraria, Starbound, and Valheim all are less resource intensive than Minecraft.

Raspberry Pis are sort of purpose-built to be tinker toys. Low effort push button solutions are not what the designers had in mind, so even easy projects require a little work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en

[–] Mandy 0 points 2 days ago

Going through vauge slide menus isn't really an optimal solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

So what is an easy to use or no think thing I could use a pi 5 for?

It sounds like you really want something that works "out of the box," in which case, I would look for projects that have disk images available.

This severely restricts what you can do with it, and as others have mentioned, is a bit antithetical to the Pi's original purpose as a tinkering machine. But you may find something you like.

The most basic would be to just use it as a desktop replacement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does Minecraft server have a known memory leak or something?

As a hack you can always set up a cronjob to automatically reboot at a time when you won't be using it, but not sure if that defeats the purpose of a Minecraft server...

[–] Mandy 1 points 2 days ago

id rather not set up something i dont know the basics of
plus i had to use a utility software to even get the server running, let lone have someone else connect to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Just put android on it. Games and tv and user friendly.