When I became interested in ARM devices, and in the Raspberry Pi in particular, my first project was an OpenVPN server.
By having the Raspberry Pi as a secure gateway to my home network, I could use my phone to control my desktop and remotely play Spotify, open documents, and a bunch of other fun things. I used an existing tutorial for that first project because I was afraid of piping anything into the command line on my own.
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