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I think I'm going to have to buy a wattage meter plug-in to see what my laptops run at with nothing running, a single Docker image of nginx, and then an API image on top of that. I wonder what my RaspberryPi 4 is pulling with my docker images running on there.
this is the way
Yup, I have an old broken laptop that runs Ubuntu Server and doesn't have a physical screen. I named it The Headless Machine (ha!)
Looked into selling my old gaming laptop just recently, and it just doesn't seem like its worth selling them, if they are any older than 5 years, and not top spec. Making a server/node/test machine, might be the best option. Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
You probably already looked into it, but just in case: Depending on the model of the laptop, the battery might be removable using simple tools and without having to deal with adhesives.
Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
what do you mean comfortable? It's basically designed for it.
Its the risk of getting a Spicy Pillow that's the issue.
Shoutout to my 16 year old dell laptop running god knows what for all eternity
At work we had lots of old laptops, poor battery life, small hard drives, etc. I cleaned them up and installed pfsense on them and gave them to colleagues as home firewall/kid web filters. Others we popped xp on them and set up mame / emulator to give to their kids.
I took my first foray into media hosting by running subsonic on an old emachines laptop! ain't nothing wrong!
I thought about it, but the additional display, made me think about power saving, how to shut off screen, while keeping the headless service loaded? ... premature optimization?
In Linux it is possible to turn the screen off after a timeout and keep the system on with the lid closed.
Thinkpad T430, i7 gen 1,16gb home server
I have an 8 core i7 Alienware 17r3 with 32GB RAM I use to host a pen-test lab. It's outdated and only runs Win10, but with Xubuntu 20.04 and VirtualBox, it makes a nice little vm server I can power up and down with plenty of resources.
Yes! My old framework laptop motherboard runs all my home services without issue. Just the right amount of power for my use case and it sips power.
I feel personally attacked.
I have like 3 spare laptops, and another spare computer. I'm not running anything right now because this router doesn't support port forwarding no matter what I try (it's a firmware issue apparently), but they're always there for me when I need them.
You could maybe rent a cheap VPS and use that as a reverse proxy. Using Tailscale to create a VPN tunnel so you don't need port forwarding
I just use an old laptop as my main computer. Now I have a reason to keep it if I ever upgrade.
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