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I just found what server #loops run on.

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.

Racks? None

Screens? Attached

Fans? Full blast

Oh yeah, it's server laptop time

People who are proud of their gear post it.

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

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

To be completely fair, it's hard to overstate the durability of an old Thinkpad. They're so ubiquitous, Linux compatibility is almost guaranteed. Then, after the battery goes, attach it to a UPC and ride that setup for another decade at least.

BRB just making a backup

My first services were running on an old laptop from 2006/2007 standing on an old leather chair in a corner of a room. The laptop was standing on four old and used skateboard wheels so there was some space between the laptop and the leather.

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

I also host my stuff on oscilloscopes.

Imagine asking "why?" instead of "why not?"

I just got a Nas with 4hdd and 4 nvme. That's pretty solid for my current needs. Scale your hardware to your needs. I won't be maxing out my setup maybe ever. I'll just update to newer hardware every 5 or 6 years and call it good.

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.

I had a spare gpu lying around so I didn’t need integrated graphics

Then next thing I knew I had 16tbs of data

Overkill is underrated.

I just bought a whole new 8th gen Intel setup to be my main PC. So I could use my 4770 as a Plex server.

Nothing ever dies in my house, Just Machines for the machine gods.

My (family's) Homeserver is my dad's old gaming rig from ~2014

I just put an 8 TB Hard Drive in it and set it up as a combination Emby Server and ghetto "NAS".

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

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

It even has an integrated UPS.

this is also my work machine and i sleep to the fans whirring

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.

Sometimes it's fun to go nuts!

Mine is my 6th gen i5 gaming PC stuffed into an early 00's tower server chassis. It's got an ebay IT mode HBA hooked up to a bunch of drives I pulled from an old Lefthand node we were recycling.

Top right are oscilloscopes, doubt it has anything to do with hosting

If I didn't need a large amount of storage I'd totally do this. As it stands it's hard or prohibitively expensive to get 30TB of storage connected to a laptop with reasonable read/write speeds.

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

I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are 🤔

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