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Re: "Question: I have a variety of older e-waste machine that I'…"
@SavaRocks - that looks interesting, but probably introductes more points of failure than I'm able to navigate at present. Thanks though.
@xavi - oooh... that looks interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks!
2025-11-26 · 5 months ago
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Question: I have a variety of older e-waste machine that I've rescued and held on to. I'm interesting in running some kind of homelab (probably a nextcloud instance, or some kind of shared drive for all the devices in the half_elf_monastery. What should I be looking for in hardware? Should I prioritize the best processor? Or the most capacity for storage expansion? Lowest power consumption? Is form factor a consideration at all (i.e., laptop vs. desktop vs. server-rack? Those with experience...