they are -- i have 2 (daily driver & the fuck-around-box)
my daily is maxed out -- 1080p IPS, backlit keyboard, t450p trackpad, 4910MQ, 16GB ram, and a 4g modem :P
the fuckaround has a 1080p TN, stock keyboard & trackpad, 4300M(?), and like 8 or 12 GB or something
they're not socketed, are they? i have virtually zero soldering experience
edit: the chips are the W25Q32FV & W25Q64FV. both are rather cheap wholesale, at ~$0.40 / chip. i've just never replaced a chip like this. i did buy a pencil a while back, though, so it could be good to learn.
the night at the roxbury vid was funny
but gates can still steve my ballmers...
they absolutely can be easily swapped. i'm just bitchin' that i have to do it again after doing it two weeks ago, lmao...
inb4 someone mentions an emacs lisp package for filing your taxes
oooooooooooo, shit
i've got an 8350k sitting around as an email server, might be time for some migrations! tho hwenc tends to be worse than sw (nvenc certainly is, but the performance makes up for it) so i might just keep it as is for now...
heh, rack
that is hot
intel_gpu_top, nvidia-smi, or radeontop. pick your poison.
depends on what you want to host. a lemmy or pleroma instance could run on an old laptop -- that's often where people start. a small minecraft server too. email can be a bit more resource intensive, but it's not that bad. mastodon can be a pain in the ass. peertube's main bottleneck tends to be upstream bandwidth. jellyfin doesn't require too much power, but if you want to transcode a "decent" GPU is preferable. i threw my old 1650 in there and it works fine for a stream or two.
i'd just like to interject for a moment
with a mild undervolt (~ -50mV core, cache, GPU), i hit ~85 C on sustained loads (~3GHz on battery), though i've seen it in the high 90s when closed on sustained loads. i actually cooked my speakers that way, need to buy a new set, lmao. at least they can be swapped easily
i don't have the dGPU heatsink, if that's what you're asking. stock heatsink, repasted + an undervolt seems to be sufficient to tame the beast.
i highly recommend the BIOS mod if you can swing it. i run a custom coreboot build (seabios + grub), so it shows my logo on boot, has a custom BIOS password routine (rolled it myself!), and i have full disk encryption (even /boot!) for debian, with the grub in flash handling LUKS2.
my only complaint is boot times, GRUB can take nearly a minute to unlock the disk, due to non-existent SSE code. if that was taken care of, it could probably unlock in a couple seconds. (note to self, summer project!)