My 3rd gen i3 laptop has: dead battery, broken screen(about 1/3 of the screen is dead), loose USB ports that work when they feel like it and a decrepit HDD that was slow even when it was new. I have it for emergencies, but I don't think it's worth rebuilding it.
Replace the HDD with an SSD and it'd probably make a decent server. You usually don't need a screen, USB ports, or battery for a server :)
I'm running a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4gb of ram and 32gb of storage:
- pihole
- nginx proxy manager
- vaultwarden
- ntfy server
- mollysocket
- fmd server
- wireguard server
- cloudflare ddns
- my website
- watchtower
All that and load average is 0.05%, ram usage is at 450MB and disk usage at 6.4GB.
Well understood tech and still damn good math! To think, just because the newest stuff is shinny! Total junk really just for ads and video games full if unknown complications and adverse effects. All a 'furbish needs to be back in top is a good Linux soul!
Librebooting a 5yo chromebook has about the same effect if all you need is to print stuff and maybe write a few things down
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