EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
What’s with it is probably “I’m doing this because I love hardware.”
Angry Thönkpad whirring intensifies
Let’s be real though, What’s someone doing with three oscilloscopes
Playing Doom.
Sometimes one or two just don’t have enough channels. The bottom one doesn’t look like a scope though. It may be a spectrum analyzer, but it’s hard to see.
Mad scientist shit.
An experiment because someone once thought “you know what would be better than two oscilloscopes?”
Man crazy fun is to be had with sillyscopes
Build your own breadboard with ICs and you can play doom on it.
Well kind of. But dude, you can get all sort of crazy ass signal information from your circuits with em. Like watching SPI devices talk to each other is wild.
Viewing multiple signals, signal generation, digital signal analysis.
You may be able to do most of that with the newer one on the top of the stack; but it’s nice to have backups/spares to use or just to put things on separate screens.
BRB just making a backup
this is also my work machine and i sleep to the fans whirring
Yes my Plex server is a W520 and it shuts itself down at night because it’s in the bedroom and the fans are too loud.
No, for me I love it, like how some sailors can’t sleep without the sound of the engine
To be completely fair, it’s hard to overstate the durability of an old Thinkpad. They’re so ubiquitous, Linux compatibility is almost guaranteed. Then, after the battery goes, attach it to a UPC and ride that setup for another decade at least.
How are you going to know the internet is working with thet few blinking LEDs?
My first services were running on an old laptop from 2006/2007 standing on an old leather chair in a corner of a room. The laptop was standing on four old and used skateboard wheels so there was some space between the laptop and the leather.
I went overkill because i had money, no hardware i could dedicate and wanted flexibility for my volatile interests. So overkill (except storage until i upgrade) that i plan sharing it with my family (when i set it up properly) I could have made a less overkill choice but that way i probably wont need to change my setup for some game
Doing something scrappy with an old laptop is cool. Hey, built in UPS if the battery still works!
Doing something powerful and reliable with server class hardware is also very cool.
If it is meeting your needs, I’m happy for you.
Sorry to tell you I never had a battery
I guess I’m somewhere in between with a bunch of RasPis xD
I mean you aren’t going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop…yet 😘
Don’t even have 256G installed in that thing
Top right are oscilloscopes, doubt it has anything to do with hosting
Speak for yourself
I had a spare gpu lying around so I didn’t need integrated graphics
Then next thing I knew I had 16tbs of data
I just found what server #loops run on.
I have 2 old dell prebuilt boxes of shit things stacked on top of eachother. I do need some recommendations for storage as I currently just have everything on a single ssd.
Get a few scrap hdds and fit them in or idk wire the sata cables out of the case?
Then create a raid 0+1 configuration and you now have a couple tb of redundant storage.
Bonus points if you can get even more hdds (use usb adapters maybe?)
I can probably 3d print something to hold the hdd’s and get a cheap pcie sata card. If u got any recommendations for where to get some cheap drives lmk.
