My situation with data backup is… well I have none, nor can i really afford to invest into more hardware at the moment. I am running RAIDz1, on my NAS so that gives me a small amount of protection in case a drive in it does go bad ig.

Nah, that’s what my phone is for :)

That is one of the things I’ve thought of doing with it, like a dedicated game streaming machine. It’s got gigabit LAN and a dedicated, even if not latest gen GPU, so yn

That is a neat idea, however I don’t really have a “media center” or a TV for that matter, as I always just watch stuff on my PC… That and I am not the type of person who’s gonna go buying movies on disc… I just pirate that sh!t

Yeah, that’s another thing I was gonna ask about… How does one properly dispose of a battery?

Thing is, it’s gonna need a lot more than a “recondition” to get it back to a “usable as a laptop” status. New screen, new battery, new bottom panel (yeah, that). And I do have some ideas of how to get extra use out of it, occasionally, as my homelab isn’t particularly powerful, I just wanted to get a 2nd opinion about it.

It would bug me a ton if I were to recycle it, as it still technically works, it’s just not worth repairing, as the total cost pretty much equals getting the same one, but working, 2nd hand…

I mean, ultimately, if I can’t find anything else to do with it, I might do that.

It does work without the battery and the model is: dell G3 3579, I just didn’t think the model was that important to mention.

Already got all of that from a VM off my homelab

Fck these things, they are slow and I’ve also had 1 fail, causing me to reinstall my whole home lab…

Everything is accessible through VPN (Wireguard) only

I only use the highest of grade when it comes to hardware

Case: found in the trash

Motherboard: some random Asus AM3 board I got as a hand-me down.

CPU: AMD FX-8320E (8 core)

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 5x2tb hdds + 128gb SSD and a 32GB flash drive as a boot device

That’s it… My entire “homelab”

The fact that debian GNU/FreeBSD died before debian GNU/Hurd is kinda sad, honestly

Here’s the solution

No, as it’s just my main desktop, my laptop and an isolated PiHole VM

Mine’s pretty simple, I have a “don’t open ports until ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY” policy, wireguard works well enough for everything else I need to access remotely. I also keep SSH disabled on any machine that has direct access to the internet.

+1

VSCode… No, that’s literally it. You can self host code-server.

I’d try opening a nfs share along side the smb one. It’s much better supported on linux.