I learned the week before the project that the Raspberry Pi 1 I had initially found useless and kept in a drawer for years had a new streamlined OS called DietPi and a thriving community. I had also recently discovered Tail scale. In one weekend I installed DietPi, tail scale, and AdGuard and then had ad blocking on all my devices, including my phone when I was away from home.

The Pi 1 is now an integral part of my network and sent me down the rabbit hole of personal home servers. I have an Odroid running home assistant, a Pi4 now running services where the data doesn't matter, and a Synology running services where the data does matter.