• circa 2019 gaming laptop
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Intel Core i7-8750H
  • 1TB SSD
  • 12BG RAM

I have a new laptop and don’t want to let this one languish in my closet. Any ideas on what I can do with it? TIA.

  • Kuvwert@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    Game server, plex media server, self hosted pihole, add a vault warden server, stuff like that :)

    • Waxsta@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I second this. It sounds like a pretty decently specd laptop. If you have any interest in self hosting you could install proxmox on it and go from there.

      That’s what my gaming desktop turned into and I found it really fun to learn about. Just a warning though, it didn’t take very long for me to want to upgrade hardware for my self hosted environment haha

  • gamer@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    A server is a good choice because it already has a battery backup, so it can stay online even in the event of a power outage. For gaming laptops it’s not an ideal fate since they usually have a GPU and I don’t think most people have a reason to put that to good use in a server, so it’ll just sit there unused.

    This site has a huge list of community supported things you can run on a server with instructions + (relatively) little effort.

    Edit: just had an idea for the gpu: if it’s powerful enough, you may be able to use it for Stable Diffusion. Look up “A1111 stable diffusion web ui”. It’s not the easiest thing to install, but it’s a cool use case.