Important news! I have upgraded my Raspberry Pi. No longer will my pihole and twitter bot run on an ancient Pi 2, no, we have seen the future, and the future is the Pi 4!

The Pi 4 includes new amazing features such as:

1. Two 4k outputs, so you can view your black and green terminal screen on two monitors instead of just one kind of like in that movie “The Matrix”
2. Throw out all of your old power cables since this baby works with USB-C!
3. More RAM? There is probably more RAM.

That being said, the main reason I upgraded is that I couldn’t believe my old Pi 2 lasted this long. I had left it powered on since 2017 without a single hardware issue. I’m honestly surprised the thing didn’t melt.

To celebrate this monumental occasion I’ve added another type of Python script twitter bot post to the Team Venom account. Using the “vcgencmd measure_temp”, “date”, and classic linux “fortune” commands (/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp, date ‘+%A, %B %d, %Y’, and /usr/games/fortune) I can pull the CPU temp, current date, and random “fortune” and post it to twitter as seen below:

This is sure to delight a handful of nerds on the internet, which is always my goal with posting online.

I also updated the PiHole, a DNS based ad blocking service, to v5.6. Wow, who the hell is my Roku talking to all the time?

If you’re interested in doing any of this nerd stuff on your own, check out the following links:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

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