I get that and I’ve been there, but it sounds like you have an existing homelab that can do most of what someone else might do with a broken laptop.
What ideas did you have?
And recycle it could mean wipe the drive and donate it to someplace that will recondition it and give it to someone who needs a computer for school/work but can’t afford one.
Sounds like you’re looking for a solution you already know the answer to; recycle the laptop if you’re not going to repair it.
What? I don’t follow sorry
You’re welcome.
And I do. I have a PoE switch so the more things I can make PoE the easier it is.
The NAS will have a lower power consumption.
What if I want a computer I can power via PoE?
Use YT-dlp to download them using the sponsor block flags.
Corporate world, I still have to VPN in before much is accessible. Then there’s also 2FA.
Homelab, ehhh. Much smaller user base and within smackable reach.
This is the way.
Just VPN back in with WireGuard.
Buy cheap, buy twice.
Buy once, cry once.
I miss Maxtor. And Hitachi. And Segate with a 5 year warranty. And Samsung. And Fujitsu. And HGST.
Know what, I’ll just leave this here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers
Who makes that brand? Proctor and Gamble?
Samsung SSD/NVME.
They eventually die, but it’s later than sooner.
Got that link? I just looked and don’t see anything in this post linking to a computer with a desktop class processor that will run on PoE.
Thanks! See you all later!
… they don’t run on PoE+…
They do not; the power requirement is too high. You’re not going to find a computer with a “desktop class” CPU that can be powered via PoE.
Seconded for Hyper-V, and MUCH easier to patch the free edition than ESXi.
Maybe that’s the sub I should be subscribed to.
Got it.
Then do what you’re thinking about doing with it :)