Thanks for the input guys. This whole thing is purely a personal interest - being able to run my own node and my own mining pool, and contributing to bitcoin's decentralisation.

I've got bitcoin core up and running on the pi 5 fully synced. Its' been running for a week now I see no problem with it.

The problem is, I have zero experience with coding/linux, the readme file on https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/src/master/ is far too hard for me to follow. I tried many tutorials on Google(chatgpt as well), none of them worked for me. I guess I will just have to mine through something like sole.ckpool

It's a bit of a shame, but hey, it's beyond my capabilities. I will keep the node running for as long as possible, it's a cool little feature on my stand:

https://ibb.co/qTWRnPr