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I just set this up at home yesterday (using an Odroid C2). A very pleasant experience so far.

I'm trying to find other services that are worth running in a similar fashion. Any ideas?

Not strictly useful for yourself, but you could run a tor relay https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en

That is a decent idea.

I have never used Tor though, and I can't say I know the consequences of running a relay. So I'd probably skip that.

As long as you don't run an exit relay, it should be completely safe and legal. The EFF has a good write-up about it https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html

Actually, that is quite interesting. Thank you for the link.

You don't have to run an exit node. Just relaying to other nodes helps a ton!

any stats on the number of relays online ?

I'm running HomeAssistant from an Odroid C2 --its working perfectly.

If you haven't checked out DietPi yet, you should. It includes optimized installations for a few hundred things (including PiHole), from Mumble servers, to MAME emulators.

I hadn't seen DietPi before. Right now I'm running minimal Ubuntu - it seems reasonable enough.

HomeAssistant looks interesting too.

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