Kondeeka

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[–] Kondeeka@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks a lot! I was thinking the old laptop would be more powerful, but an extra card to pci-e and sata interface is worse from a reliability standpoint. I'll go check out the selfhosting communities :)

[–] Kondeeka@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This may be a good place to ask for advice, since I'm new to running a server myself and am now looking to set one up with old hardware I have lying around. I have a raspberry pi 5 lying around and an x230 laptop + an expresscard to pci-e x16 converter (I used it to run games with a GPU), which of these would be more worth it to invest in? I would like to run a file server with some hdd's in raid 5, and use it to stream media and maybe run a Minecraft server. I would need a pi sata hat or a pci-e sata card.

[–] Kondeeka@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Does it run on electricity or do you have to throw coal in it somewhere?

[–] Kondeeka@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

One of the founders of Fairphone is working on a European alternative phone OS called Mobifree, which is also open source. Google free Android also already exists.

[–] Kondeeka@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use cases are generally problems with very large amount of factors that are not feasible to calculate with normal comouters, think about chemical/medicine simulation and logistics optimization or public transport timetables.