I’m not going to network anything. It needs to be flashed or whatever to reset it. Can it be used as a storage device, or maybe an emulator box? I’m clueless over here. Any advice and suggestions would be great. Thanks!

  • lemonuri@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You could use that machine as your home server. It would open up a lot of possibilities. Sync your phone contacts and calendars, backup all your systems, store/stream media, host your own clousldserver, your own Internet messenger server for family and friends (snikket for example). Host a Minecraft server for the little ones or whatever comes to mind.

    • passepartout@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s what I do. I bought a thin client last year, because Raspberry Pi 4s were unavailable to me. So I (fortunately) bought a thin client and got into Proxmox. I have the following containers running on the machine (that i can think of right now):

      • Nextcloud (files, notes, contacts, calendars)
      • Jellyfin (media streaming)
      • Pi hole
      • docker host (with home assistant, traefik as reverse proxy for everything, anything else i want lol)
      • gitlab instance and kubernetes cluster (implemented in three containers, which is just for learning purposes)

      Edit: some of the thing i want to do in the future:

      • paperless-ngx (server that a scanner can send files to so your pc doesn’t have to be powered on i believe)
      • actual budget (budgeting)
      • mediawiki / kiwix (hosting wikipedia dumps)
      • some other dashboard than heimdall for links to all my services
      • a vpn i can log into from outside of my home network (used to have pivpn on my spare raspberry pi, but want to have it as a container)

      Hope i got you some ideas (:

      • WarmSoda@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know about any of those things. Thank you for listing then so I can look into them.