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Anyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by rockhandle@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] penguin_knight@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

i disaseemble all my laptops so they are just a motherboard, screw them into sheets of MDF, place vertically, and use them as servers.

NAS, pihole, plex, etc

[–] Rain@lm.melonbread.dev 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Do you have any photos of this?
Would love to see how this looks in practice!

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Up! Also would love to see how it looks

[–] lom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 years ago

You have a tutorial? That sounds awesome.

[–] marswarrior@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Do you do a headless install like Ubuntu Server Preseed?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cobbler/Preseed

Or do you install linux on an SSD from a different machine, then plug it into MDF mounted laptop mobo?

[–] Thade780@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I would guess by plugging external peripherals to the motherboard.

[–] marswarrior@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about the LCD/monitor. Maybe @penguin_knight keeps the LCD and mounts it to the board as well. If not, it's headless. Mouse and keyboard are not the issue. I always set up raspberry pi headless because the OS allows it. All you have to do is add an ssh file to the /boot dir and wpa_supplicant.conf file in root dir. Other distros typically don't, they need a monitor to be installed.

[–] Thade780@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

I know, that's why I wrote external peripherals and not external inputs. I don't want to sound cocky or be an asshole (we all know how easy it is by just reading a message someone you don't know wrote), but after 24 years of being in system administration/engineering/architecture I may have sufficient grasp of what I am talking about. 😅