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Cake day: November 2nd, 2023
  • Stefano Prenna@lemmy.stefanoprenna.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit)English
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    1 month ago

    I had a Raspberry Pi2 in my car for a few years. The weather here in Barcelona is quite hot during summer, but even if it was left in the car under the sun, it always worked well.

    I used it with the official Touch display, but added some physical buttons for navigation and playback as a touchscreen is never as good as real buttons, and anyway after some time, the touch function did stopped working well.

    I used Kodi to play media, with a low resolution, “made for car” theme and using an addon to read the gpio buttons plus another one to make Kodi read only. The car adapter I used to supply power did not always trigger a clean shutdown, but having Kodi and most of the OS read only (i. e. no logs), I literally used the same SD card for years without any issue.

    I could have used a gps as well (and launched its app from Kodi), but I got gifted a gps so used that.

    Now I don’t need this as I changed car, but I still use occasionally the RPi2 with its screen as no matter what, they still work fine :)

    Ultimately, I wanted to mention that more powerful boards will require even more watts and more stable power, so it might just be easier with an old board.

  • Stefano Prenna@lemmy.stefanoprenna.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?English
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been self-hosting Matrix Synapse for more than two years to chat friends and family and it has been rock-solid and it’s on a VPS that os hosting a Nextcloud and Lemmy instance as well. It is definitely not really resource hungry for small groups of people.

    If you want to try again this route, just make sure that everybody saves a backup of their keys as the messages are all encrypted and while you can authenticate a new client installation from another client that the same user is logged in, some people - like my mother - only use one, on her phone, which is understandable.

    So in summary, I’m very happy with it! :)