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

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 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
      11·
      2 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.

      • drathvedro@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 days ago

        W&O X9 Call. It’s a terrible watch, basically just a shitty android phone inside of a knockoff applewatch case. It runs Android 9 on 2" screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB of space (didn’t even test that one tbh), battery life - nonexistent (less than a day). But I’ve been looking specifically for stuff like this and bought a load of them at wholesale for like $28.5 a piece… and the specs didn’t even exactly match between all of them. Loaded them up with cheapest plans for IoT devices, installed termux, nodejs and moved some of my personal scripts over to them. One app/script per piece, no need for VM’s or containers 🤣 And they got their own links so firewall is also not necessary.

        None of them have static IP’s accessible from outside though, so for stuff I need public access to I jam that into the remaining RAM space on one of the few of my $1/mo lowendboxes that I’m using primarily as VPN servers. Got them all on tailscale, so I could theoretically use Funnel to route traffic from public internet to those watches (haven’t tried yet). And still to figure out some way for them to failover onto each other’s internet because the plans are extremely limited, will probably have to learn android app development for that when I get to it.

        There is also HK Ultra 2 which I believe is essentially the same thing, and I saw a few other variants on the market without even a brand name, so the only way to find them would be to search for “sim card” or sorting smartwatches category by bad reviews first 😂

        Ah, and also a disclaimer: I am not promoting this as a viable way to host things. This is just my personal exercise at hobo engineering

  • pelya@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 days ago

    Missing a Raspberry PI 4 setup which hosts a print server, an RTP server with two surveillance webcams and no password, and also seeds a terabyte of torrents over the local flower shop’s unencrypted WiFi.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    98·
    3 days ago

    People who are proud of their gear post it.

    You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.

    • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      it’s the reason people post pictures of their cyber truck which can’t move when it snows while my ford has been plowing out neighbors since '97.

      • comador @lemmy.world
        7·
        3 days ago

        You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.

        That’s probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.

        PTSD flashbacks of trying to get CFEngine configured for deploying Windows 2k, Redhat 3 and Solaris 8 lmao.

    • littlewonder@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      I want to hear from them because that’s the setup I’m aiming for.

      Where are you all discussing your shit so I can eavesdrop and steal ansible playbooks?

    • a baby duck@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 days ago

      That pic looks very much like the corner of a memory validation lab I worked in at one point. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if someone who’s really into server hardware had a home setup like that.

      • bruhduh@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        I have setup like that because i do a lot of repairs and I’ve yet to acquire minipc for server purposes, plan to buy n100 fanless one, for now i have rented vps for 2 years for selfhosting purposes

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    57·
    3 days ago

    Doing something scrappy with an old laptop is cool. Hey, built in UPS if the battery still works!

    Doing something powerful and reliable with server class hardware is also very cool.

    If it is meeting your needs, I’m happy for you.

  • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    21·
    2 days ago

    I just have an old laptop with a tui screen saver on it to prevent burn

    also, the ssd doesn’t work with linux so i have to put the os on a usb stick

    • dai@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Try booting your installer without UEFI - I have an old x99 WS IPMI board I spun up with NixOS and has so many issues using the EFI / UEFI installer.

      Admittedly that thing pulls 60w at idle, so promptly turned it off 😅

      • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        2 days ago

        nah, it’s not uefi. linux straight up doesn’t even see the drive when it’s in the pc. according to archwiki, all laptops in its series work perfectly with Linux except for this one. the SSD does work externally in an enclosure though, so I’m using it for storage.

        • dai@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Ahh man that’s a pain, my old notebook has no sata and only 32gb of emmc (which I’m tempted to remove and add a larger chip), but it’s only being used for my 3D printer so it’s not really a pressing need yet.

    • Amon@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      Btw you can set it up to turn the screen off without sending it to sleep. I use a screen lock to do this, but other things probably work too

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 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.

  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
    18·
    2 days ago

    I have an overkill hardware setup because it’s fun. No I don’t really need 4 servers in a Proxmox cluster with 64GB RAM each… but it’s cool lol. Besides the hardware was just gonna become ewaste anyway, I’m repurposing it

      • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        2 days ago

        As it’s obsolete server hardware, I’m guessing each one has a bunch of low capacity ram sticks in it. And they’re probably not the regular consumer grade stuff, but some other spec.

          • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 days ago

            You’re not wrong. Currently running 4 “servers” (describes their role, they’re really just repurposed desktops) and averaging 350W. Oof. Time to try ARM soon I think.

            • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              It was the same in my house, with a 19" rack and old workstations. I’m downsizing to a 10" rack and so far it’s quieter and cheaper (in the long run!)

        • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 days ago

          They’re not even real servers actually, 2 of them are my old gaming PCs I built in 2012 and 2017 and I have many Dell Optiplexes and the like lying around I reuse for various things

          I have upgraded some of the parts in them - including the RAM, because ballooning VMs are annoying - but it’s still true they’d be ewaste otherwise

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    3 days ago

    Just because you can afford to lose your weird niche fetish porn doesn’t mean I can afford to lose my calendar and contacts

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days ago

    Wow look at Mr FancyPants over there, your server has a screen, I just got something (RPi) the size of a matchbox! /s

  • Surp@lemmy.world
    131·
    2 days ago

    I mean you aren’t going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop…yet 😘