I don’t use arch btw
Young me: Finally gets a chance to try Linux for the first time with Ubuntu What’s this? ⭐w⭐
Me today: Turned his Steam Deck into a backup desktop 😏
I’ve saved every laptop, PC, portable device I’ve ever owned … and when they got too old and outdated with no more updates from Windows, I converted them all to Linux machines, most were just fun projects to see what I could or couldn’t do or to test all kinds of things I was trying to learn … now I have a closet stacked with devices
Just watch or dispose of those lithium ion batteries! I wish they weren’t such a pain in the ass to open, removing them leaves that hole with exposed contacts, and phones/tablets with custom ROMs could be perfect little servers for 3D printers and the like, but often won’t power up without their batteries.
Each of those server chassis in the 3m high stack is probably some combination of power intensive, loud and hot. Assuming around 200w median, that one stack would continuously draw 34A. Loading the individual servers could be 2-4x that amount.
That’s going to be a toasty room.
It’s water cooled.
God I wish American apartments were legally required to let you do this.
Like a sauna
Also more like Linux + Networking.
You can’t make all those devices work together in tandem if you don’t know the networking.
I mean, I’m not into networking but I have a lot of computers. I usually clean them up and give them to other people and repair them.
So accurate, I have 5 towers right now set up for re-purposing as servers, with a half dozen more coming in a few days saved from e-waste. That doesn’t count my homelab rack server, networking gear, main gaming tower, and 4 laptops…
It’s insane how many perfectly usable machines get designated for e-waste.
Ikr. I’ve got two 12 year old towers that have Debian on them. One is a Docker box and the other is just a raw Debian server.
I installed KDE on both because I like my servers looking a little sexy lol. They run smoother and more stable than any of the Windows machines I support.
They’ll probably be fine for another 10 years, maybe even longer.
It’s taken from the excellent 1998 anime “Serial Experiments Lain”. It’s so iconic, excellent intro (OP) theme. But a bit surreal, it’s kind of Lynchian in a way.
Cool Lain splash screen for KDE
Old 17 year old meme
It runs on so much stuff!
Linux running in a pdf.
