• djdarren@piefed.social
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    15 days ago

    People buy home servers? They don’t just find them lying about and say to themselves “I’ll put Debian on this old piece of shit and see what I can get away with running”?

    Huh.

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
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      6 days ago

      Mine is currently a not so old pavilion laptop. Runs debian and has 2 drives in it. I need to upgrade it bc it has no storage space but upgrading the m.2 is a motherboard out procedure.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 days ago

      I mean, parts gotta come from somewhere.

      The real trap of the home server is the ever increasing need for more storage space

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        15 days ago

        I often find computers in trash, a stick of ram here an HDD there. Didn’t spend a euro on my server.

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      15 days ago

      Yeah it’s less like something new and more like “Thank you, ancient me, for deciding it was always a good policy to go heavy on the RAM.”

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      14 days ago

      See, this is why I’m afraid to go to the local recycler. I’d wind up coming home with more potential Linux systems than I know what to do with.