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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.
I do this lol!
I took my first foray into media hosting by running subsonic on an old emachines laptop! ain't nothing wrong!
Old smartphones too...
Howwww
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when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded "half-tops," or truly "headless" servers. it was a beautiful abomination.
My employer lets us keep our old work laptops when we upgrade so basically every two to three years I get a new home server. I remove the battery just to be safe
What does removing the battery do?
It's probably to avoid it being left charged all the time and potentially swelling into a 'spicy pillow'
For a while I was using a 10 year old Mac Pro G5 as a home server. Conveniently it also doubled as a space heater in the winter.
Old macs are particularly useful as build servers- it's not straightforward to get a fully featured OSX vm to build and test on.
Yeah it’s really difficult to get Mac OS virtualized… I don’t know why, but my VMs always slow down after about 15 minutes and are unusable.