Yeah, you check out there. Are you loading them off the SD card or a USB drive?
SD card. 64GB if I remember correctly, canāt check at the moment.
Thatās what I do.
I wonder if itās a lemon or a weird card.
oh!!! this looks interesting, thank you!! i will prolly take the plunge once i have enough money for that starter kit + controllers haha
daaaaaaaamn
That was the onion rings talking.
howās the 4? think i might pick one up for lakka
Iāve had a 4 sitting fallow for a couple months because farting with the unofficial retropie build or familiarizing myself with mamma both sounds like a hassle.
Maybe i should byte the byllyt and tri it out.
Lakka
Auto correct is wild
I also have been sitting on a pi 4 that I havenāt had the time to mess around with. Iāve been meaning to familiarize myself more with linux, so Iāll probably dick around with it a bit for random teachable projects until retropie for 4 comes out.
I will say that the official plastic case for it is gorgeous.
I picked one up, and it is extremely satisfying the way the board slots right into it, no screws needed. You can easily pop off the top if you ever need to.
need to set up pihole on my 3B+ and get a MiSTer for my emubox needs
anyone here doing pihole? got any tips or links to guides?
I set up pihole on my 3 and it was really easy! I donāt remember what guide I used, but theyāre out there. I think I went with the official one on their site. The one tricky part was dealing with my ISP-provided router that kept me from setting a custom DNS.
Since the DNS options I needed werenāt available via my routerās admin page, I instead used piholeās backup option for this scenario and used piholeās built-in DHCP server: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-use-pi-holes-built-in-dhcp-server-and-why-would-i-want-to/3026
Pihole rules, especially for phones and smart TVs where itās really hard to do proper ad-blocking. Roku TVs do an insane amount of creepy tracking, and Iāve been able to completely block all of it.
The cool thing about having all these old models around each time I upgrade is weird projects like that.
Once the 3 became dedicated to emulation, I started messing around with my old 2 to learn some online exhibit hosting software for work.
This thread has inspired me to repackage my turbo cd games as chd files. I lead an exciting life.
okokok so my thoughts are: itād be nice to have a pi as a TV-attached thing, to stream 1080p (for the foreseeable future) video and maybe play a vidcon; also itād be nice to have a pi on a router for pihole and maybe one day media server-ing, if one box can do both. pihole is the highest priority here
should i like, get a zero for pihole, then maybe get idk a 3B+ or something for the TV stuff? ideally itād be like something big enough to do pihole and server stuff, and then a 4B or something for TV, but iām trying to keep realistic about what i actually need for my primary goals vs like, whether iād actually use the extra power in the more exxy models before something bigger and shinier came out
i do currently have a chromecast and maybe using that would get less spooky if i had pihole running so the TV box might not be top priority; then again if i could pass that chromecast along to someone that might be a net good
a 400 for a desktop sounds lovely too but also not really necessary rn
I have a pi 3 running pihole and it absolutely rules. It makes the experience of using a Roku TV so much better. It blocks all Roku ads and many streaming service ads. It keeps my TV from phoning home CONSTANTLY (Roku is extra creepy about this). It also blocks ads on my phone too, which is much appreciated. Itās a very different experience trying to browse on mobile outside my home. I have no idea which models of pi are recommended for it, but the 3 has never given me any trouble.
I used to use my pi 3 for retro gaming (using Retropie) and it was a very capable device for anything up to the PSX. PSX games worked but frequently lagged enough to be annoying. I have a pi 4 that I havenāt hooked up yet. Retropie only JUST gained full pi 4 support in November, so maybe itās a little spotty still? I dunno. I think theoretically it should run PSX games better, but I doubt it can go very far beyond that.
this is all great info and i thank you
whatās the difference between retropie and lakka? and how feasible is it to use one box for both games and TV, like netflix or w/e
my current thought is to grab a zero for pihole and then if i wanna upgrade i have a spare, like everyone keeps talking about
hereās some more pics of all the assorted ends and pieces i have on my pi 4
i love typing nilbog:8112 into my web browser and doing torrent crimes
nilbog:8080 brings up my calibre server (rly enjoying re reading discworld)
just realized after posting that most of these havenāt been converted to kindle format yet whoops
heres a visualization of my media servers contents
this is a little esoteric and fiddly and theres probably a better way but i have vlc installed so i can use the vlsub plugin to download subtitles to save onto the share w/ all the pirated movies (usually i use vnc to use my phone as a remote thats connected to the sever)
youtube downloader that doesnt involve going on sketchy sites (itās not especially fast so far though, not sure why)
the project im really wanting to get finished for my pi 3 is to use my spare webcam to make an old school creature cam for our dubia roaches, theres so many different ways i implement it that iām not sure which direction i wanna pursue fully
im thinking something like this:
edit: i forgot to mention, i also have a second share setup for steam, the y directory is the second hard drive in my usb 3.0 dock connected to the pi and its a 7200 rpm, it works fine for a lot of games, especially older ones, ive tried red dead redemption 2 and that runs perfectly, but conversely ive tried Let It Die and it turns the game into a chugging untextured mess, strange stuff!
i fucked with lakka a bit over the summer on a pi4, seemed nice but itās literally just retroarch embedded with ssh (i think you need to ssh in to pair a bluetooth controller) and smb preconfigured so you can copy roms over the network
using mine presently for pihole, rtorrent and smb. not the most ārobustā setup with a little external hd but it works and i can just stream media to my firetv with kodi. using dietpi and it seems pretty good, think itās using like 70mb ram on a cold boot