I was trying to show off my darling little Raspi to my extended family but nobody was impressed.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@HF9061 it went through a few life cycles: Ubuntu, then the YunoHost image, then Debian and now back to Ubuntu 🥲

[zeitverschreib@freundica.de]

@elena That's a real beaut. 😍

[snazzygumball@freeradical.zone]

@elena Have you heard of dietpiOS I use it its awesome makes self hosting really simple you just need to read their documentations witch really you IMO.

[fd0@social.freebsd.amsterdam]

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com it makes a great stratum-1 NTP server, running #FreeBSD

mine is😎

[reillypascal@hachyderm.io]

@elena love these little things! I have one running Kodi for an open source streaming box and it's lovely.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@elena they don't know...they don't understand...

[joel@fosstodon.org]

@SnazzyGumball @elena I love DietPi! It's the best ^^

[a@852260996.91268476.xyz]

@elena@aseachange.com a year ago one of my best friends came to visit and I proudly showed him my servers... Few times I've seen him as uninterested in something as that time ​​

[caffetino@social.pikaia.org]

@elena lovely! I have a raspberry pi 4 somewhere with that case (my RPi5 is my alternative computer)

[d1@autistics.life]

@elena Philistines!

[tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@elena Warning: I'm completely green in the space.

What use cases those thingies are best at? I bet they excel at self-hosting, but if someone wanted to use them to run desktop on top of them, how viable would that be? Asking out of curiosity, hoping I didn't asked something dumb xD

[elena@aseachange.com]

@tragivictoria that’s precisely my current use case: I set up my Raspi as a Linux desktop computer running Ubuntu. I love how I can flash distros on a microSD and have them running in no time. Nobody was impressed by that though 🥲

And yes typical use cases are Pis used as inexpensive home servers. They’re just so wonderful!

[elena@aseachange.com]

@d1 😂🤣 TBF I was trying to show off the Raspi as a Linux desktop… but nobody in this house has ever used a desktop computer. Or at least not in decades.

I couldn’t even find a spare keyboard when I had connection issues with my wireless one 🥲

[elena@aseachange.com]

@caffetino so cool! My RPi5 is now my Linux desktop computer (running Ubuntu)

[elena@aseachange.com]

@stefano 🥲

[elena@aseachange.com]

@reillypascal thanks! I’m taking notes in case I get an extra one 📝 🤗

[elena@aseachange.com]

@fd0 👏👏👏👏👏

[elena@aseachange.com]

@joel @SnazzyGumball this is the first I hear of DietPi. Sounds amazing!!! I’ll look into it.

See, you people ALWAYS teach me cool new things. Thank you!!!! 🙏

[elena@aseachange.com]

@zeitverschreib Thank you! I think so too 🥹

[elena@aseachange.com]

@joel @SnazzyGumball Update: I see that DietPi could be installed on my old Raspberry Pi 3… it’s sitting at home doing nothing. I can’t wait to try it out! 🤩