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Anyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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

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