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      "text": "Two days ago, I properly learned what a Raspberry Pi even was.  \nI’ve never coded, never used Linux and never set up a server. I’m just really into radio and SDR stuff, and I thought a Pi would be a neat way to access my SDR receiver remotely.  \nSo I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM.  \nIt arrived today.  \n**10 PM:** Finally got around to setting it up. Put everything together, prepared the SD card and opened ChatGPT because I had absolutely no clue what I was doing.  \nThe plan was to get my SDR working remotely and go to bed.  \nYeah, about that.  \n**11 PM:** Somehow I’m already sitting in PowerShell, connecting to my Pi over SSH, setting up keys, messing with Linux commands and figuring out what permissions and services even are.  \nEvery time something worked, I got another idea.  \n**Around midnight:** We got Cockpit running so I could manage the Pi through a browser. At this point I was already pretty damn impressed with this little thing.  \nThen I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to have my own dashboard showing temperatures and system stats?  \nI really should’ve gone to bed.  \n**2 AM:** We’re now writing actual code. Well, ChatGPT is writing it and I’m running it, breaking things, sending back error messages and trying to understand what’s happening.  \nSuddenly we’re dealing with Python scripts, system services, ports, authentication, Wi-Fi monitoring and temperature history.  \nAll this for a computer I only discovered two days ago.  \n**Around 4 AM:** We finally get the custom dashboard running over HTTPS, with its own certificate.  \nI grab my iPhone, open Safari, type in the address…  \nAnd there it is.  \nMy own little dashboard, showing live CPU temperatures, system information, Wi-Fi stats and graphs.  \nI know this probably sounds like nothing special to people who’ve been doing this for years, but I genuinely couldn’t believe it.  \nI was sitting there looking at something that had only existed as a random idea in my head a few hours earlier.  \n**6 AM:** Instead of sleeping, I’m running stress-ng and watching the CPU temperature climb from around 47°C to 56°C under load.  \nAnd I’m actually enjoying this. At six in the morning. After being awake all night.  \nWhat the hell.  \nThe funniest part is that the original SDR project was supposed to be the whole point of buying this thing. Somehow that turned into SSH keys, a headless Linux server, Cockpit, HTTPS, a custom dashboard and CPU stress tests.  \nI’m not going to pretend I suddenly know how to code. AI did the heavy lifting there. But I was involved in every step, trying things, fixing errors and slowly understanding more of what was going on.  \nThere was this one moment when I looked at the dashboard on my phone and just thought, holy shit, we actually made this work.  \nThat feeling was honestly incredible.  \nAnyway, I bought a Raspberry Pi for one small project, spent the entire night messing with it and now I’m already looking at NVMe storage and thinking about a second Pi for a proper homelab.  \nI think you guys know exactly where this is going. 😂",
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