I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W that is serving as my Pihole server, but that only uses about 10% of its very underpowered CPU, and I feel like I’m not getting my money’s worth. Anyone have any lightweight project ideas I can run on it to use up more of its resources?

Could I run BOINC limited to 50% CPU usage on it or is it too slow to complete jobs on time? Could I maybe seed torrents for popular Linux distros on it without the rather weak Wi-Fi chipset getting overwhelmed and bottlenecking the DNS server?

  • makeasnek
    2·
    1 year ago

    There are certainly some BOINC projects that could work with it, many BOINC projects support android as well which is similar in terms of specs. !boinc@sopuli.xyz

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I run both pihole and openvpn on my pi so I can get ad free internet anywhere.

    You could also use a camera module or a webcam as a security camera that you can access from outside of your home.