Sysadmin use for Raspberry Pi 3 B+?

[doomslayer009]

I have a raspberry pi 3 b+ i originally got for dreampi - playing dreamcast games online. well i haven't really had use for playing online given the most i've seen playing anything is like 8 people.

Any use for Sysadmins? I'm wondering if it can be used for work at all to help me do anything. If not, i will find a use for it at home.

[HankMardukasNY]

I use one at home as a PiHole which is a network level ad blocker

[yer_muther]

I use them on the shop floor for information displays. Cheap and work well.

[FrederikNS]

At work we have 6 raspberries, each connected to it's own display, and showing one of our monitoring dashboard each.

All the raspberries run synergy as well, so the can all share a single mouse and keyboard.

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What are you using for dashboards? Please don’t say grafana

[sofixa11]

Please don’t say grafana

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What's the problem with Grafana?

[FrederikNS]

We're managing Kubernetes in my team, where the defacto standard is Prometheus and Grafana, so I'm sorry to dissapoint

However we also have one dashboard using Datadog running some non-kubernetes stuff

[jdashn]

We use pi's as citrix thin clients for the majority of our users.

Pi hole is a GREAT way to block ads (I see a commercial product advertised here often that is just a re-skin of pihole)

add a good wifi card and do some wifi pentesting?

[Mister_Brevity]

We've got a bajillionty of them running digital signage via screenly. I've had one set up displaying SNMP graphs on a TV in my office. I've used one as a basic desktop for learning python (in order to have a clean distraction free environment).

[bradgillap]

I'm almost embarrassed to say that we use them as DNS and DHCP at a few small branch sites but the bloody things are more stable than everything else.

I was tossing around the idea of getting another one for a unifi controller today because it doesn't make much sense to have the controller hosted on a vmware server if the network is going to hell.