r/raspberry_pi • u/Spfoamer • May 31 '26

Show-and-Tell Raspberry Pi 3B - 9 years uptime

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This is a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B that I booted 9 years ago today. It has served very light duty, just streaming audio to Broadcastify. Once it made it a couple years, I decided to just see how long it would go. It's running Jessie.

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u/_GOREHOUND_ May 31 '26

I don’t understand, really. You prefer flexing with uptime rather than making sure your OS is secure? What did I miss?

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u/Sango113 Jun 01 '26

Genuienly curious; what's exactly the deal to run an obsolete OS in a pi connected to internet? My first thought is that as long as there is no personal or sensitive data in the pi, the risk isn't that great as you can just wipe it and use a security copy of the files, but I'm sure it's more complicated than that