I have one that runs my bookwyrm, owncast, calibreweb, and matrix (WIP) instances.

Gotta love self-hosting federation c:

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Do you mean a server with a built-in UPS, monitor, keyboard AND mouse? Hell yeah! My old Samsung Laptop has been running my game servers for quite a while now, and I have an old Asus running PiHole and Headcale. Works great!

My first NAS was an old IBM X40 and two USB3-Disks.

those where the days :)

when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded “half-tops,” or truly “headless” servers. it was a beautiful abomination.

when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded “half-tops,” or truly “headless” servers. it was a beautiful abomination.

They’re usually very inefficient energetically though

when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded laptops I’ve dubbed “half-tops,” or truly “headless” servers. it was a beautiful abomination.

All day long. I ssh into mine & run docker. Works surprisingly well. Better than the $5/month droplet.

I feel personally attacked.

As a test machine, yes. As a production machine… Meh.

Little memory, slow and small disk…

Yeah until it stopped working. The heat is the problem. It lasts for like 6 months of 24/7 usage.

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!)

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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.