If you want a Raspberry Pi but don't want it connected to your own Internet connection (e.g. to host a WireGuard server), here's a list of the places that I have found which offer either Raspberry Pi Read more
Tag: Raspberry Pi
Cloning a Raspberry Pi installation: slow, but working
I run a few Raspberry Pi 4s, and I tend to set them up in the same way, in terms of LUKS with unlocking over ssh, and then the same, or very similar, hardening / securing. I'm used to doing the same Read more
An unplanned business continuity test, and what I learned from it
I did something stupid this week. I should probably hang my head about this, because, frankly, I shouldn't have got myself into this mess in the first place. But you know what? I'm not hanging my Read more
Home server, or homework? Minecraft or mine field? The draft Online Safety Bill would restrict net neutrality to the well-lawyered
A regular refrain of Internet governance is something akin to: If you regulate online services as if they are all Facebook, all you will end up with is Facebook. The message is a simple one. If you Read more
Raspberry Pi, pihole, unbound, nginx, doh-server: some quick notes
Some quick thoughts, mainly to remind me, as I run through a pi-hole migration. Install pihole Here. Change the password to something stronger: pihole -a -p Install unbound Here. Install nginx Here. Read more
Migrating mastodon to a Raspberry Pi 4
I have had a mastodon server running for a couple of years now, and I enjoy a very different social media experience on mastodon than I do on Twitter. Both are good, but they are different. I Read more
Raspberry Pi 4 with the PoE+ HAT: LUKS and a working fan
I wrote up my approach for getting vanilla Debian 11 running on a Raspberry Pi 4. It is a bit of an involved process, but I was pleased to go through it because it meant I had vanilla Debian running Read more
Installing vanilla Debian 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4
I'm documenting this for myself as much as anyone else, but if it helps, great. I wanted to run vanilla Debian 11 (i.e. not Raspbian) on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because I want to have LUKS Read more
Running Jitsi on a Raspberry Pi 4
This blogpost is about running the server-side components for the jitsi video conferencing system on a Raspberry Pi. It is not about using a Raspberry Pi as a client. If you want to connect to Read more