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Written by mFat on 2024-10-05 at 07:37

Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian

https://lemdro.id/post/13765030

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Written by leisesprecher@feddit.org on 2024-10-05 at 08:34

In case you didn’t already do that: remove the battery. It’s probably dead anyway, you don’t need it and it poses a potential (albeit low) risk.

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Written by poVoq on 2024-10-05 at 10:29

Depends. Usually it is still good as a UPS for a few minutes, and some laptops have a bios option to limit full charge which lowers the risk even further.

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Written by leisesprecher@feddit.org on 2024-10-05 at 10:50

And how much need is there for a UPS in this scenario - realistically.

Some of the people here take their admin-LARPing a tad too seriously. Most households have reliable enough electricity, and even if there’s an outage once every quarter, would a dead battery even help?

I advocate for being realistic with one’s own needs. Don’t build a five-nines datacenter for a glorified weather station or VCR.

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Written by richieadler@lemmy.world on 2024-10-05 at 21:16

Most households have reliable enough electricity

US defaultism in action, it seems.

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Written by leisesprecher@feddit.org on 2024-10-06 at 05:38

The US default, that I never left Europe. What an achievement for the USA!

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Written by Lemongrab on 2024-10-06 at 08:42

This is true, the USA is better and it is invading your soul.

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Written by realbadat@programming.dev on 2024-10-06 at 13:51

US power sucks plenty!

Texas is an extreme example, but outages happen everywhere. It was only a bit over 10 years ago when Sandy basically hit half the US and took power out in the tristate area for weeks. With climate change making things worse…

But even when things are running well, not including the random downed line or busted transformers, its still better to give your hardware clean power and avoid the small spikes.

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