this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
11 points (100.0% liked)
Hacker News
2089 readers
459 users here now
Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.
The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
the true value is in discarded laptops, skylake or newer. a quick search in my local marketplace finds double-digits of those under $40, with busted screens and other failings, which aren't important for e.g. headless deployment.
they got low-power, capable CPUs to boot, you get a shitton of connectivity, storage options, etc. power brick included (gotta buy one for a raspi) and you don't dick around with arm64 packages and SD cards. if you don't need video decoding, you can go even older.
woudn't put too much trust in recommendations from dudes that rely on you constantly buying new shit, as their income depends on it.