Have been looking alot at getting a Raspberry Pi to run PiHole or something to get rid of the ads for pretty much all the devices on the network. Its very annoying having to look at ads on the TV when streaming from Youtube and such. But I would also like to run a website or something, so would I need 2 Raspberry Pi’s or could I run with just 1? When I’m making websites it’s all just running on my desktop which is taking up alot of RAM and CPU, because of the background tasks and them running 24/7, plus a Raspberry Pi doesnt use much power. I remember my dad and I getting a bunch of them a few years ago, but we simply can’t remember where the ones that didnt get used are now. We used 11 of them for our retro TV flow channels, which can be seen on my projects page. Actually no, it isnt there. The project page is for software/websites and the experiments page is for the physical projects I’ve been making. Which isnt on there right now, but I’ll get it added very soon. Currently only this page, the life.php page is a CMS, the rest of the page isnt. I think it would be a decent idea to make the rest of the site into some kind of CMS, but I’m not 100% sure about that, as it would take up alot of resources, but it would be easier for me to change something, or add something new. I just need to remember that if I do it, I need to put timestamps on it. So I can keep track of the time something is changed and such. Currently where I live the power is expensive, so I dont want to put up a bigger server, even when I have the space for a rack server and I got one laying around, a Precision R5500, which is basically a PowerEdge server from Dell. I would actually like to set up a page for family photos, I believe I have something I made on a Mac, like 16 years ago from an app called DreamWeaver or something similar. You would just input the images and it would create the page for you with the thumbnails and making them clickable. Back in 2012-2014 I did have a thing for a fandom where it would show images like that for whatever people had sent me. I do like the idea of an archive site, or something like that, but I just dont feel like the cost of having something like that would be worth it if nobody uses it. And Im afraid of telling people about the projects I do. People do have the domain for this page, but I’m 100% sure that nobody reads it. All the blogs and that I’ve made before have been erased with time, or I’ve just forgotten where they are. Since I do have a bunch of stuff on my NAS with websites and that, but due to some update with Windows 10 it doesnt work with SMB1.0 which is what my NAS uses, even if its enabled in the settings, and I have the feature installed in the control panel. I got too much stuff. I want to get rid of so many things. Like even just getting rid of my desktop, because with what I use it for daily, then I could just run on a Raspberry Pi, but every once in a while I get invited to play a game, like Warcraft 3 or Diablo 2. And then I need Windows. For Warcraft 3 then you need to run Battle.net from Blizzard, and that doesnt work very well on Linux, with all the stuff that I’ve tried I just couldnt get it to launch the program, or the game. So I had to install Windows a few months ago. Thats how it is. I have been looking into just getting a Dell Optiplex DT of some newer kind, since I’ve been saying for a few years now that I need to have a computer with a full size PCIe and full size PCI slot on the motherboard, for my capture cards when I did Youtube and digitalization of tapes. I needed a way to record both HDMI and older stuff. But its very hard to find a motherboard now that has that if you dont look at older hardware. I believe I found something that the latest CPU/motherboard that supports it, is like the first generation Ryzen CPUs and Intel 7000 series. I do have a Dell Optiplex 980, but its only a 1st generation i5. So not more powerful than what I’m currently using, but its smaller and makes less noise. I do think that computer would be a great Linux machine, but yeah. Do I want to switch over to that now when I’m pretty well set in Windows 10? I have also been looking at getting a KVM so I could switch between 2-3 computers with using the same keyboard, mouse and monitors, so I didnt have to get alot of keyboards and different monitors when testing out other computers and all that. Since I do have a XP machine, a 98 laptop, and my current “gaming” rig, even when its not doing much gaming. The case I even got for my “gaming” computer is very old. It has floppy, 7 optical drives, and space for about 12x 3.5″ harddrives. So its quite massive. About the same height as my table, so that says something with how big it is. Looks a little like the old Mac Pro tower, but it also have wheels on it, and that makes it easier to move out when I need to do something on the back of it. I got alot of Core2 machines, and that all work. Perhaps I should test my PowerEdge Tower server to see if it works, when I last had it on for many days, then it just shut off and I didnt want to power it on again so I just left it. It got a Xeon CPU and 32GB RAM. Which could be used by someone else if they needed a cheap server. I have just used it for Proxmox and a bunch of virtual machines. I got to list some of the machines I have for sale, I just need to test them. Like got a iMac G3 that was in storage home the other day. Looking back at my previous post from the 16th of May 2026, then I see that links or a href links doesnt work when typing in this editor, I think I’ll just leave it like that. Even when it would be nice to be able to link to other pages when I’m writing about them. Hopefully today I will get a lamp put up in my room, it does get dark at some hours. But over the last few weeks I just havent been using my computer that much and just been in the common room. And when I’ve been in my room on the computer its been daytime and bright outside. The shed is full, since we put a lot of boxes over there while we sort through them with what to keep and what to throw out. I got no shelves or anything in my room, so its just an bed, my desk with my computer and some monitors, and then boxes. The shelving I had in the apartment I dont want to put up in this house. I do have my landline phone connected tho. So some stuff is there. I sold my B\u0026O MX1500 TV when we moved in, so I dont have a CRT anymore, other than the iMac G3, but I would love to have one, even if I dont use the TV that much, I still want one. I feel more at home with the older hardware, like I can feel at ease with knowing when stuff is on, like with my desktop. I’m using a mechanical harddrive, which with that I can feel with slowness of the computer when its in use, and if some background program is trying to install or get data. With a CRT I know that it wont take any of my data, like the smart TV in the common room. I know that I’m paranoid, but thats just how I am at the moment, and I have been for quite a while. Like if I could live in a shed in a forest I would just do that to get away from everyone, but sadly that isnt possible.