@rockhandle to SelfhostedEnglish • 1 year agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lolimagemessage-square188arrow-up11.07Karrow-down118
arrow-up11.05Karrow-down1imageAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol@rockhandle to SelfhostedEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square188
minus-square@AcidOctopuslinkEnglish31•1 year 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-square@lemme_at_itlinkEnglish8•edit-21 year agoWhen you do, take a look at howtoforge.com. Then throw on a bunch of containers from linuxserver.io Quick & easy for testing & learning. EDIT: fixed link formatting
minus-squaremiraclerandylinkfedilink5•1 year 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-squareDaGeek247linkfedilink5•1 year agoOh man, ssd storage is cheap as fuck right now. you can grab a terabyte for less than 40$ shipped.
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.
When you do, take a look at howtoforge.com.
Then throw on a bunch of containers from linuxserver.io
Quick & easy for testing & learning.
EDIT: fixed link formatting
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.