dilwyn wrote:Ha! That's a very nice offer Norman. Most kind of you. The thought is appreciated.
But in reality, I don't even have time for the computers I already have
Starting to put the house back together today after an expensive central heating upgrade, I'm not even sure where the QLs are at the moment
So I humbly decline your most kind offer, better it went to someone more likely to appreciate the device.
No worries Dilwyn, it was sat here currently idle, so I thought, if you wanted to play with it, you could. It will get used for something soon no doubt. I have three Pis at the moment in work - one is running my CD collection which has a DAC on top to play back the FLAC encoded CDs in my collection. I'm using Volumio as my player and can access it from the browser or from the command line.
There's another running PiHole to get rid of the bleeding adverts that are a major problem these days. You don't notice they are missing after a while, but once you go off to a hotel and use theirs, god it's awful! My dashboard tells me some days that 60% plus of my internet traffic is adverts.
Of course, I realise that adverts sell and some companies need the income, but I never buy from adverts nor from cold callers so it's moot here I'm afraid.
I'm setting up a third Pi as a NAS, running Open Media Vault. I had a WD (Western Digital) NAS connected to my network as well as a small WD USB drive, two sets of backups, what could possibly go wrong? First the NAS died, but I still had the USB. Nope, that dies a day later. I've gone off WD products now!
My Pi4 is used for development work when I can't be bothered firing up the laptop. You'd be surprised how good, and fairly fast, a 4GB Pi4 can be for day to day work. Obvioulsy, that depends on what you do for work of course!
Anyway, enough waffle!
Cheers,
Norm.
