My company is giving away a bunch of old office pcs for free. Mostly pic related, some random stuff too.What could I do with these?
they make decent home servers
has pcie slot?
>>108802595Homelabbers love these things. If you aren't interested in starting one yourself, I guess you could sell them on ebay.
Sell me one.Do you accept Monero?
>>108802595Search for TinyMiniMicro and you'll find plenty of ideas of what to do with them.
>>108802595Proxmox cluster
>>108802608I wanted to buy a Thinkcentre but Ebay has a godawful privacy policy and will rape your account if you try and make one with fake data.
make a beowulf cluster
>>108802595Get into self-hosting, it's fun and useful, and I highly encourage people to reclaim their shit from "the cloud" and have control over their data. Even something as benign as a local CalDAV server to detach yourself from Google Calendar is a big plus.Alternatively, these are perfectly capable PC's for web browsing, maybe your friends and family could use one.
>>108802595Bet they've got i7 10700 cpu. The best cpu to ever launch.
>>108802595>sovlcentreyou have no use for them. send them to me
>>108802621And host what?
>>108802595>old office PCs>USB-C port on the frontdie
irc bouncer and server
>>108802595You could compute with them
>>108802736How new do you think usb-c is?
>>108802608>>108802599What's good with home servers / homelabs? Is there a reliable and easy way to set them up and do backups so they essentially function as my own alternative to github? Or am I screwed because my internet provider doesn't provide me with a static IP? Or does that even matter?
>>108802736retard
>>108802634What are your recommended solutions for off-site backups? Please see >>108802806
>>1088027912017 so like 3 years old?
>>108802736How can you figure out the captcha but not know what a stock image is?
Line them with steaks and cut up hot dogs.Fill the remainder with your semen.Connect power.????.Garloids emerge.
>>108802828How can you figure out the captcha but forget to read the OP?>mostly pic related
>>108802819First of all, setting up a VPN network for off-site connectivity. If you have an end point that has a private IP, Wireguard. If it's a dynamic IP, set up DynDNS. If you're CGNAT'ed, either a VPS to host Wireguard or a third party service that has NAT traversal proxies like Tailscale, or if you buy Mikrotik hardware for your network, they have Back To Home that works much the same way.Then once you have that connectivity established, it's up to you how you want to deal with it. Cron jobs, Syncthing, Proxmox HA, some other method, as long as the machines can talk to each other securely sky's the limit.
Link them together with ethernet and run the largest number parameter AI model on them to help you code stuff
>>108802873ethernet is too slow and crashes everything when the memory request doesn't arrive on time
>>108802595i host wikipedia(kiwix), draw.io, and paperless-ngx on mine from a headless debian install. it's also nice to test networked dockers on.i wrote a script to update wiki every 6 months.
>>108802595>What could I do with these?throw a linux distro on them and host LAN parties as retro game center or just sell them
>>108802791>2014Huh, NTA but I thought it was just a couple years newer.>PS4 and Xbone missed USB-C by just one year>the timing meant Nintendo got to be the first to bring it to gaming as standard with the Switch in 2017
>>108802595ebay.
>>108803681>Switch 2 continued the tradition with microSD Express which will prove to be a pretty based standard in time
these things might work browsing 4chan, email, messaging, p2p for many years
>>108802859How can I blind my ISP from reading seeing all my traffic and prevent my OS from chatter on Debian anon?
>>108802595Lots! I want one.
I set up 3 of these for multi box EVE mining. But they only work in lowest resolution and lowest settings. I also reverse ssh tunnel from one to my website so I can use all my local files like a cloud storage
>>108802595>What could I do with these?Everything. ThinkCentres are primo little machines and I envy you at the moment.
>>108802595windows file server with ftp access
>>108802806If your provider doesn't provide a static IP, you're fucked out-of-house.In-house, you can use them as a "streaming server" by putting your media on it and not your work PC.
>>108802820Try way older.>>108803681Being fair, Nintendo is only the first because the Wee-oo flopped massively. It'd be mini like the other two.
>>108802595distrohop ALL the distros without having to trash your current setup
>>108804718>a world where the WiiU lasted 8 years like the Switch 1
>>108802595I want them for homelabs but they are to expensive. Count yourself lucky. I have to do VM's and a laptop as a cope for not having something low power as those machines.
>>108804705Have you not heard of tailscale? Its what I use and I can connect to my jellyfin server out of house. There are other ways to do this as well
>>108802921yeah but it sounds cool
>>108802595If these are new enough to handle 4k video, you could use one as a TV box, connect to a wireless keyboard like Logitech k400 and enjoy comfy bed browsingNAS/Home server works too
>>108805406Plus, the girls won't see the HDMI cable.
>>108805415But what if I want to show girls my HDMI cable?
>>108805472LEWDDDDD!!!!! ANON THIS IS A CHRISTIAN BOARD.
>>108802601Some of the models do.
>>108802595>>108802608>>108802614Sell them on xmrbazaar. Homelabbers will appreciate
>>108802595I use mine to self-host services like syncthing, a git forge, a rss reader and some home-made programs on freeBSD. I use wireguard to expose some of those to the interwebz, but I didn't bother configuring it fully, I find manually managing nodes in a text file tedious. >>108803151 I really like the idea of a of offline wikipedia, so I'm looking into using kiwix too now.You could get into self-hosting yourself by installing Yunohost on it or something similar to ease you into this world instead of going raw
They are given away for a reason. Modern Electron Apps killed cheap pcs.
>>108802595I wonder if there would still be sensible data on them you could restore because the IT department was sloppy and lazy
>>108804705>If your provider doesn't provide a static IP, you're fucked out-of-house.Not true, you can make an onion (tor) site. Doesn't even require port forwarding
>>108802595Not much. You could make a living room PC for indie games.
>>108802595Set up a room to do Lan parties for oldschool games like WC3, Flatout 2 and UT2004
>>108806013>WC3, Flatout 2 and UT2004COD4
If the units you go use sub 10watts then you can get a pretty good price for them.People are getting priced out of raspberry pi and those thin clients are a very good substitute for home servers that need to run 24/7
>>108806478>COD4You misspelled COD:MW1
Repurpose the case.
they overheat and shut off when given any real loads
>>108802595I got an old HP one from work too, what I'm looking into>Make a seedbox>Pie hole >Media center >Personnal cloud>Home automation
