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by sirsuki 1518 days ago
I do. I have a Pi I run as a server where it runs PiHole, PiVPN (Wireguard), and a personal Node environment. My main use case is to have a system I can SSH into and develop personal projects. This works well because I have a few machines that I can’t develop locally. A work machine that I cannot mix personal work with. An iPad that has no local shell (I use https://blink.sh for this). It works fantastically!

I’ve made a home “Are you in a meeting” website that everyone on my WiFi can point their browsers to. I have https://tiddlywiki.com instances running there. It manages my VPN when I’m out of the house. And I block a huge portion of ads when I use it as a DNS server.

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This is how I intend to use mine, I just have not sat down to do it. This way I don't need to waste any resources on my main box. I'm also kind of waiting to buy a Pi 4. I used to run Pi-Hole at home but it got corrupted. I also had openHAB setup as well to control my A/C via ... whatever that wireless protocol is called that my thermostat was using. I have since replaced my thermostats with the Wyze one.