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The raspberry pi tag on WindowsForum.com covers a range of topics centered on Raspberry Pi hardware and its intersection with Windows, Linux, and maker projects. Discussions include security advisories for Linux kernel drivers used in Pi systems, such as CVE-2026-68303 and CVE-2025-38160, which address null-pointer dereferences and interrupt races. The tag also features practical homelab setups with self-hosted apps like Pi-hole and Joplin, DIY projects involving Pi-driven sensors, and historical notes on Windows 10 IoT Core support for the Raspberry Pi 2. Safety lessons from hardware mishaps and experimental builds like ReactOS on Pi 5 are also covered, offering a mix of technical troubleshooting and community insights.
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    Raspberry Pi vs Mini PC in 2026: Real Costs and Limits for 5 Popular Projects

    The Raspberry Pi has spent more than a decade as the default answer to "what cheap computer should I tinker with?" A new XDA Developers piece by Jeff Butts keeps that tradition going. It names five projects where Butts says a Pi gives you mini PC results for "far less money": a media center, a...
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    Home Assistant Green at $199 Can Cost Less Than a Raspberry Pi Setup

    Home Assistant costs nothing to download, but a working local smart home now costs more to build than it used to. The biggest reason is hardware. Raspberry Pi raised prices on its Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 boards several times between December 2025 and April 2026 as memory prices climbed, which...
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    Raspberry Pi CM5 Blocks RAM Upgrades Despite Chip Swaps

    Raspberry Pi is deliberately preventing RAM-capacity upgrades on at least some newer devices, according to reporting published on September 21, with a Compute Module 5 memory transplant showing that installing a working, higher-capacity chip does not necessarily increase the memory available to...
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    HP ProLiant N40L Gets Raspberry Pi CM5 NVMe Prototype

    EastMakes has built a custom Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 motherboard for the nearly 15-year-old HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L, adding NVMe storage and USB 3.0 while retaining its enclosure and original power supply. For homelab enthusiasts, it demonstrates a way to reuse an aging server’s...
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    Raspberry Pi Wall Display Syncs Google Calendar and To Do

    WallCalToDo turns a spare Raspberry Pi and monitor into a wall-mounted display for Google Calendar and Microsoft To Do, keeping appointments and tasks visible without moving them into another planning app. Developer Kevinclayland has publicly released the project on GitHub, with support for...
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    Raspberry Pi: Pi-hole Fits Old Boards, Media Transcoding Does Not

    An old Raspberry Pi is still a capable appliance computer, but the right project depends far more on its storage, network role, and software support than on whether it can boot a modern desktop. How-To Geek’s five-project roundup, published September 20, makes the useful case for rescuing...
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    Pixel 10 Desktop Mode Replaces Pi Workstations, Not Servers

    A Google Pixel 10 can now cover a Raspberry Pi’s role as a portable desk-side Linux client—a monitor, USB-C cable, keyboard, and mouse turn it into an Android desktop with a Debian virtual machine available alongside ordinary phone apps. But the claim, published by How-To Geek, needs a sharper...
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    Raspberry Pi 4 Improves Jellyfin 4K Direct Play Over Ethernet

    A used Raspberry Pi 4 running LibreELEC and Kodi can be a credible replacement for an aging Chromecast for a self-hosted Jellyfin library, but the key lesson from XDA Developers’ test is more specific than “the Pi plays everything.” The improvement came from pairing a capable HEVC-decoding...
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    Pi Rain Radar Runs on Windows, Replays Cached Radar

    Pi Rain Radar is a newly open-sourced, self-hosted weather display that turns a Raspberry Pi—or an AMD64 PC running Docker—into a dedicated screen for watching observed rain move across a map. The useful part is not the screen itself; it is the architecture behind it: the software acquires...
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    Can an Old Android Phone Replace a Raspberry Pi Server?

    A retired Android phone can be an appealing alternative to a Raspberry Pi for a narrow class of small network tasks: it is already a complete computer, already has Wi-Fi, and may be sitting unused at no additional purchase cost. But replacing a Pi with a phone is not simply a matter of...
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    Original Pi Zero as a Tailscale Router Behind CGNAT

    Carrier-grade NAT can turn a routine home-networking task into a dead end. A port-forwarding rule on a consumer router is of limited value when the ISP, rather than the subscriber, controls the public-facing IPv4 address and shares it among multiple customers. For a Windows user who needs...
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    Raspberry Pi CM5 Carrier Rebuilds an HP N40L

    A striking homelab project has given an HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L a second life—but not in the usual sense of upgrading an old server. EastMakes has replaced the original computing platform with a purpose-built carrier board for Raspberry Pi’s Compute Module 5 (CM5), shaped and connected for...
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    CVE-2026-68303: Raspberry Pi VC4 Teardown Crash Fixed

    Linux kernel CVE-2026-68303 fixes a teardown-time null-pointer dereference in the VC4 graphics stack used by Broadcom VideoCore hardware, principally the display and 3D components found in Raspberry Pi-class systems. The practical result is a potential kernel crash when the vc4-drm master driver...
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    Steam Deck Spiked Raspberry Pi System Stops Family Use

    A Steam Deck owner has taken the familiar household complaint of “please stop using my stuff and leaving it dead” to an intentionally absurd extreme: a 3D-printed spiked shell, a Raspberry Pi-driven camera-and-speaker setup, and a servo-actuated electrical noisemaker intended to frighten off...
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    ReactOS ARM64 Experimental Build Boots on UEFI and Raspberry Pi 5 (Alpha Warning)

    ReactOS, the open source effort to recreate Windows NT compatibility outside Microsoft’s codebase, has produced an experimental ARM64 build that can boot on UEFI Arm hardware including QEMU and, with special handling, a Raspberry Pi 5, the project and early testers reported in late May 2026...
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    Privacy First Raspberry Pi Self Host Stack: Pi-hole Joplin Navidrome

    The idea of squeezing a handful of always-on, privacy-respecting services into a Raspberry Pi — and leaving them to hum quietly in the corner — is a smart, achievable homelab strategy if you pick the right tools. The How-To Geek piece the author shared highlights six self-hostable apps that have...
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    CVE-2025-38160: Raspberry Pi Clock Driver NULL Pointer Fix and Azure Linux Attestation

    The Linux kernel fix labeled CVE-2025-38160 patches a simple but meaningful null-pointer check omission in the Raspberry Pi clock driver: a call to devm_kasprintf() in raspberrypi_clk_register() could return NULL on allocation failure and the caller did not guard against that, allowing a kernel...
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    Backward HAT Sparks Smoke: Pi 5 Safety and Design Lessons

    A Microsoft engineering manager's weekend tinkering ended with the smell of burning plastic and the all-too-familiar “magic smoke” rising from a Raspberry Pi 5 after a HAT was accidentally fitted the wrong way around — a small error with an expensive lesson attached. The incident, documented by...
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    Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: Quad Core Power Meets Windows IoT Core for Makers

    When the Raspberry Pi Foundation quietly replaced the single-core BCM2835 at the heart of its flagship board with a quad‑core Broadcom BCM2836 and doubled system memory to 1 GB, the tiny credit‑card computer ceased to be a mere educational toy and started to look like a credible platform for...
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    CVE-2025-38371: Linux v3d interrupt race fix in kernel

    A critical, low‑level kernel fix landed in mid‑2025 that patches a subtle race in the Linux DRM v3d driver: before resetting the GPU the driver must disable interrupts and ensure any in‑flight interrupt handlers have completed. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE‑2025‑38371, describes a scenario...