A baby is a cream pie that has finished cooking.

A smart switch that turns off the power when the battery hits 80% and turns it on at 78%? Dunno if that would actually work.

It’ll probably work. Biggest issue will be recovery after power failure as laptops generally stay off.

Next most likely is CPU fan failure, exacerbated if CPU usage causes the fans to run high and nobody is there to blow the dust out.

Other than that I’ve had multiple laptops that run as servers over the years and generally they’re fine. Streaming audio for our community radio station, or shoved behind wall mounted TV’s for updateable PowerPoint displays.

Righto :)

I was thinking of usb3 hard drives. No need for internal storage if using spinning rust.

On older laptops with optical drives you can sometimes replace the drive with a sata tray and add a second drive that way.

But yes, a server that looks like a server and can recover after power loss is useful.

A cheap laptop might also be worth considering? Built in UPS that way, and sometimes UPSes have a large standby power usage. Would support a couple of bus powered drives as well.

Main drawback is no recovery if the battery drains fully.

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Yeah that’s right.

I have a ten year old i7 with 16gb so I don’t notice it much, but anything less would feel the pain. And yeah it can be slow in some apps (grid connect) yet flies along with Zen pinball.

Probably not what you want, but BlueStacks might suit. For poddies alone it might not be worth it, but if you have other uses as well it might be worth it. (For example, eBay’s $5 discount for ordering with the app.)

It’s already Thursday here in Australia.

Thanks.

Apt doesn’t work on Fedora so I have given up for now. Still trying out different distros.

Will it work with Boxes, or only KVM?

(Boxes is like VirtualBox but simpler, but with no 3d video support for Windows guests. Unlike VirtualBox, it actually works out of the box on Fedora 40.)

Deleted by creator? That’s the fifth panel probably.

Thank you for this. I appreciate your effort.

Can’t seem to find this on f-droid or DDG.

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Already Thursday in Australia.

Yesterday chaired a committee meeting at a community radio station, fixed a printer for a customer, and slept in the car for an hour before dinner. Also tried Chrome os flex on an old Asus laptop plus mint (booted to a blank screen) then mint 17, will try Ubuntu 22 LTS tomorrow. It’s a spare with no purpose at this time and win 10 can’t run the amd GPU.

Novelty only.

Keeping real fish is tedious and time consuming.

If you get tired of that, you can probably turn it into a virtual fish tank and Johnny Castaway machine. (1GHz atom, 1gb RAM, XP)

Great for gymnasts.

I turned my ten year old Toshiba i7 with a cracked LCD into a virtual fish tank after the last fish died.