rockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
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minus-squarepenguin_knight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoi 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
minus-squarelom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYou have a tutorial? That sounds awesome.
minus-squareBitlummo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThis article talks about turning a laptop into a rack mounted computer. Each computer will be different recreating something like this based off what ports it has and where.
minus-squareRain@lm.melonbread.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoDo you have any photos of this? Would love to see how this looks in practice!
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
You have a tutorial? That sounds awesome.
This article talks about turning a laptop into a rack mounted computer. Each computer will be different recreating something like this based off what ports it has and where.
Do you have any photos of this?
Would love to see how this looks in practice!