Wait you can do that???? I have one right now!!!
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If the battery still works it's got a built-in UPS.
Shoutout to my 16 year old dell laptop running god knows what for all eternity
Yup, laptop for testing, old gaming PC for production.
@rockhandle That's how I started. Proxmox on a 9 year old laptop with LXC and VMs. Even now that laptop runs proxmox with pfsense and pihole VMs and is serving as my home router :)
As a test machine, yes. As a production machine... Meh.
Little memory, slow and small disk...
Even my 10 year old laptops can have ssd. Depending on the laptop and budget could be a better fit for a lot of people.
3 x laptops for a high availability Openshift deployment!
I have an 8 core i7 Alienware 17r3 with 32GB RAM I use to host a pen-test lab. It's outdated and only runs Win10, but with Xubuntu 20.04 and VirtualBox, it makes a nice little vm server I can power up and down with plenty of resources.
this is the way
Got a laptop with a busted up screen running Plex and it's pretty awesome! We don't need screens where we're going!
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I took my first foray into media hosting by running subsonic on an old emachines laptop! ain't nothing wrong!
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Omg that’s a great idea I have an 8 thread 4 core from 2012 that was my main laptop 3 years ago.
I've never had an internet connection that allows normal server connections. I guess I could set it up with Cloudflare or something.
I've been more likely to use old laptops as thin clients... run Linux on my desktop, then connect to it with VNC so the laptop doesn't really have to do anything. Or set them up with a really lightweight Linux desktop like WindowMaker and use them to play music out in my studio.
Yup, I have an old broken laptop that runs Ubuntu Server and doesn't have a physical screen. I named it The Headless Machine (ha!)
Looked into selling my old gaming laptop just recently, and it just doesn't seem like its worth selling them, if they are any older than 5 years, and not top spec. Making a server/node/test machine, might be the best option. Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
what do you mean comfortable? It's basically designed for it.
Its the risk of getting a Spicy Pillow that's the issue.
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I have like 3 spare laptops, and another spare computer. I'm not running anything right now because this router doesn't support port forwarding no matter what I try (it's a firmware issue apparently), but they're always there for me when I need them.
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My employer lets us keep our old work laptops when we upgrade so basically every two to three years I get a new home server. I remove the battery just to be safe
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