@rockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down16
arrow-up1279arrow-down1imageAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.world@rockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-square@AcidOctopus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•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-squaremiraclerandylinkfedilink1•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-square@lemme_at_it@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•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.
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.