I like to do a bit of electronics #upcycling. Last Sunday, I was helping out with the Repair Cafe at our local Climate Action Hub's Sustainable Sundays event, and I managed to pick up, for a small donation, an old Intel Compute Stick that someone has donated. I didn't know what, if anything, I could do with it. It dates from 2015, so it's quite old by today's standards, and this one came with Windows 8, which is of course end of life now. I'm not a fan of windows anyway, and with only 2GB RAM, and 32GB Windows 10 wouldn't be a viable option. But my speciality is installing #Linux on old computers to revive them... And although it was more of a pain than I had anticipated - requiring a USB hub, an HDMI coupler, and few bios tweaks, I now have #Debian Bookworm installed and running nicely on it! It's a great addition to our "new" (second hand) media centre screen, so now we can watch you|peer tube on the big screen, and I've attached all my ripped CDs on an MMC card so I can use it to play music too. It will eventually be plugged directly into the back of the screen, so will look pretty neat! My wife's pleased too because she'll be able to watch xmas videos with the kids on it instead of rigging up her computer and monitor on a chair!
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