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?

  • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lolEnglish
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    3 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.

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
    1·
    3 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.

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
    1·
    3 days ago

    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@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      3 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