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by Sunlis 4834 days ago
I love my Pi. I just got it a week ago and it's already handling wireless backups from my laptop, syncing my Fitbit, and hosting all of my media (external drive with its own power supply and minidlna on the pi). I also plan on using it to host a central git repo for my personal projects, and I'll probably end up using apache to run a simple in-house website for various pi-related tasks (my girlfriend isn't as tech-savvy, but it would be nice for her to be able to easily restart services and such).

These things are fantastically useful, all we need now are cheap monitors and you could definitely set up a (albeit somewhat weak) computer for the change in your piggy bank!

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I love mine too. I have it set up so I can ssh into it from anywhere using my cell phone. I use it to write python code for an edx class I'm taking on artificial intelligence while I'm commuting by train or bus, and to remotely play music hosted on my desktop through the speakers in my living room. It's a lot of fun.
Yeah it's great. We have hooked one up to a 42" monitor running chrome. It displays a dashboard and there's a few different servers running on the PI for web scrapers etc. It also has an internal office API. Very neat.