• sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Like the author, I’m not sure what I’d do with a (underpowered) desktop. I can understand other people using it for a home server, a NAS, or something selfhosted, but that isn’t for me.

    A better use (for me) might be donating it somewhere .

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      1 year ago

      Yeah when I upgrade mine in the future I’ll donate it to my parents.

      They have some massive old dual core pc. Going to a 13th gen laptop CPU will be an insane upgrade.

      They won’t even understand that a small laptop board is an order of magnitude faster than their much larger PC.

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      1 year ago

      I would love to replace the service “Shells” wich Manjaro advertised very often. For school usage I found it very useful but the 1vCPU was pretty unusable and costet way too much. Higher vCPU plans cost even more so no thanks to Shells. But one you host yourself, fuck yeah.