rockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1425arrow-down18
arrow-up1417arrow-down1imageAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldrockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square153fedilink
minus-squareAcidOctopus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoI’m patiently waiting for someone (anyone) I know to decide to throw out an old laptop. Gonna bite their hand off for it, install Linux and proceed to fuck around and find out.
minus-squaremiraclerandy@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI got a free laptop from work that is an old engineering workstation. Problem is, our IT pulled the hard drive and I haven’t found motivation to take it apart and put on in it.
minus-squareDaGeek247@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoOh man, ssd storage is cheap as fuck right now. you can grab a terabyte for less than 40$ shipped.
minus-squarelemme_at_it@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoWhen you do, take a look at howtoforge.com. Then throw on a bunch of containers from [linuxserver.io]https://www.linuxserver.io/) Quick & easy for testing & learning.
I’m patiently waiting for someone (anyone) I know to decide to throw out an old laptop.
Gonna bite their hand off for it, install Linux and proceed to fuck around and find out.
I got a free laptop from work that is an old engineering workstation. Problem is, our IT pulled the hard drive and I haven’t found motivation to take it apart and put on in it.
Oh man, ssd storage is cheap as fuck right now. you can grab a terabyte for less than 40$ shipped.
When you do, take a look at howtoforge.com.
Then throw on a bunch of containers from [linuxserver.io]https://www.linuxserver.io/)
Quick & easy for testing & learning.