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I've been building a small home-lab around a Raspberry Pi 4 that I'm calling the Hive. The idea is to have one tiny, low-power machine handle several useful jobs around my network instead of needing a full desktop PC for everything. The Pi currently runs a minimal debian installation and acts as my little media and network hub.

Media Center

The main thing the Pi does is serve my own web-based media interface over the local Wi-Fi network. From my phone, Laptop, or another device, I can open the website and browse through series, music and movies I have saved on an SSD connected to it. I can scroll through the library and select something to play, with the Pi handling the playback on the TV. This means I don't need a separate smart-TV interface. The Pi provides the backend and the TV simply displays the result. I can also interact with the system directly using a Bluetooth Keyboard connected to the Pi, so I'm not completely dependent on another device.

Youtube player

The Pi also has a dedicated Youtube player. Instead of relying on the TV's built-in software, YouTube can be handled by the Pi itself and displayed on the TV. This gives me another application that can be controlled through the same little system.

AI

The Pi provides the interface and infrastructure for experimenting with AI-related services while keeping everything inside my own network. It is just a tiny 1,5B Model that takes very long to come up with reliant answers but that is totally fine as I only use it to generate me hourly little sum ups of the system status

Nas

The Pi is also my Nas. External storage can be connected to it and exposed over the network, allowing other machines on the LAN to access files without the drive having to be physically connected to them. The Pi becomes the middleman between my devices and the storage, it can’t just stream my files on the TV but also grant access to them.

Why call it the Hive ?

The bigger idea is to eventually have several small machines working together, each with its own role. The Raspberry Pi 4 is currently the one and only worker handling media, the web interface, storage and various services. Other machines can later take over specialized jobs. It's still a work in progress, but the interesting part is that the Pi is already doing several different jobs at once — and I can control most of it remotely from my MacBook or phone while learning more about Linux, Servers and computers in general

Dashboard of the PiHive

Look who is occupying the puter

I dont wanna say life has been tough, honestly it's going great but right now I have no distractions to keep me from thinking and my thoughts have been all over the place for a while now.

I was feeling kinda productive today though, to distract myself I started taking care of the mess that is my apartment since I started bed rotting for 2 weeks. I feel way better now even though there is still a lot to do.

Also I added a new webring site to my website, I hope to join a lot of cool webrings and get to know interesting new people. I spent hours just clicking through webrings and watching other peoples websites and honestly.. It is tough, like dont get me wrong, there is a lot of cool and flashy stuff to see but I think my brain just got too used to the constant dopamine of algorythmic social media and brainrot haha. Maybe that whole new Indieweb arc of mine will help my brain detox.

I still have not thought about how I wanna do this blog, like everyday or whenever I feel like it, we will see but I am already excited for the day a few years down the line where I can just scroll down all the way and see my thoughts from years ago.

That's my cute kitty Mila. She is eepy right at her favorite spot

This is my first blog post on my new Website yaayyy ! I hope this is gonna be a persistent passion project and not a 2 week hyperfixation. I honestly dont even know why im doing this, probably because it feels good to feel like I have a real presence on the web.

I used AI to help me with this thingy, I hope no one is gonna be mad qwq - Trust me I also wanna use this as an oppurtunity to learn yes