EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think

EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    To be completely fair, it’s hard to overstate the durability of an old Thinkpad. They’re so ubiquitous, Linux compatibility is almost guaranteed. Then, after the battery goes, attach it to a UPC and ride that setup for another decade at least.

  • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Mine is my 6th gen i5 gaming PC stuffed into an early 00’s tower server chassis. It’s got an ebay IT mode HBA hooked up to a bunch of drives I pulled from an old Lefthand node we were recycling.

  • OR3X@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    If I didn’t need a large amount of storage I’d totally do this. As it stands it’s hard or prohibitively expensive to get 30TB of storage connected to a laptop with reasonable read/write speeds.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Poverty computing takes more balls. Like yeah, you got a nice Plex server and you can play Skyrim at max setting because you can afford a big NAS and a nice graphic card - no skills needed. I’m spending two hours trying to get the Sims to work on a fifteen year old laptop that I don’t think can even run a DE or running Puppy Linux off USB while waiting to afford a new hard drive.

  • Captain Howdy@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    All my gear is stuff I’ve saved from the dumpster at work except my hard drives and my UPS. I’m using the IKEA end tables instead of racks (I think they are called lakka?). My jbod chassis is huge and very loud, but it was free. I dropped cables into my basement and I only hear it when I’m down there.

    I started off with just a desktop tower full of spare parts, but over time it’s slowly become a pretty impressive stack.

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Modern tech is so wasteful. Why’d you ever need all that stuff for.

    Back in the day I used to host all my stuff on a dinky little router (ASUS Wl500g, 300mhz 32MB RAM) with a powered USB hub and a spare USB HDD hooked to it. It handled downloading torrents overnight, hosted a few websites, an FTP/SAMBA server, an image/screenshots hosting and galleries for me and my friends, including that one script that generated a GIF of all my epic gamer stats on each access, a couple of bots, sent me weather reports via SMS, hosted a webcam to be used as IP security camera, and also a dumb printer so that it could be used by anyone on the network, besides working as my actual router.

    When it died* I moved all that stuff to an old UMPC. And nowadays, I host my shit on $30 smartwatches with Termux.

    Meanwhile, one of the commercial projects I’ve been working with lately, which is basically just a glorified image dump, with all the modern bells and whistles, doesn’t even launch if the machine has less than 32GB RAM… smh

    EDIT: * It was the HDD that died, the router itself is still chugging along, but with less duties as just a network switch for less demanding appliances

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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      5 days ago

      Because we forgot optimization in a world that celebrates maximalists and constant upgrades to feed shopping addictions that make people feel more in control of their space in a world with less and less opportunities for self determination.

      When I remember I was the cool kid for having a 4GB flash drive that could fit all of my call of duty game and homework and I look at the 560GB games now that aren’t even as fun to play I think we have made some mistakes along the way that instead of prioritizing the experience of life we prioritize the ease of it.

  • averagethighsenjoyer@lemmy.eco.brPortuguês
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    5 days ago

    I’m currently using a ryzen 5600u mini-pc, which is more than enough for what I do. Although it’d be cool to have something more server-like. The thing is: those notebook cpus are very efficient and low energy consumption is a priority for me.

  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I just bought a whole new 8th gen Intel setup to be my main PC. So I could use my 4770 as a Plex server.

    Nothing ever dies in my house, Just Machines for the machine gods.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    6 days ago

    My (family’s) Homeserver is my dad’s old gaming rig from ~2014

    I just put an 8 TB Hard Drive in it and set it up as a combination Emby Server and ghetto “NAS”.