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I would go for a secondhand old laptop. Not only will it prolong its life instead of pollution by buying even more new machines, you have integrated screen and

by rakoo 4y ago

I would go for a secondhand old laptop. Not only will it prolong its life instead of pollution by buying even more new machines, you have integrated screen and keyboard for debugging and a battery acting as a cheap UPS. Parts are easily found. x86, so no funny business with experimental builds.

Jeremy1026 4y ago
Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet.
- wolrah 4y ago
  > Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet. Having a battery specific to your server allows the UPS for your network to last a lot longer. I use one of the 1500VA class desktop UPSes to run my home network, the largest variety normally sold for use with a 15 amp circult. It's good for about 30 minutes with my server turned on, or three hours just running the router, switch, and WAP. If I were able to use a laptop as a server I could instead have the big brick doing just the network and then the "server" could get a few hours of runtime on its own.
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>I would go for a secondhand old laptop But only if you don't live in Europe, as old laptops tend to be quite energy inefficient by modern standards, and at the current energy prices, you'll see the difference on the yearly bills, between an old laptop and a new one running 24/7 in your house. You can get chines barebones with modern quad core 11th gen Intel Celeron chips that sip power for about 150 Euros. The best part is that some are even flanless so they're dead silent and there's no more worrying about cleaning the dust from the fan every few months. Just chuck it somewhere out of sight and you never have to thin about it physically.
- rakoo 4y ago
  It's definitely not cheaper, but it's much better for the environment. It is clear today that digital pollution happens mainly during the production stage rather than the using stage.
newaccount74 4y ago
Lithium batteries have a finite lifetime and I wouldn't want an old lithium ion battery hanging on the charger 24/7 in my appartment. Fire risk is too big.
ThrowawayR2 4y ago
Keeping the laptop's battery at 100% charge on laptops will shorten its lifespan considerably and they won't find out whether the battery has gone bad until the power goes out. Some newer laptops have charge limiting that can mitigate this but a secondhand laptop likely won't.

by rakoo 4y ago

Jeremy1026 4y ago

Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet.

wolrah 4y ago
> Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet. Having a battery specific to your server allows the UPS for your network to last a lot longer. I use one of the 1500VA class desktop UPSes to run my home network, the largest variety normally sold for use with a 15 amp circult. It's good for about 30 minutes with my server turned on, or three hours just running the router, switch, and WAP. If I were able to use a laptop as a server I could instead have the big brick doing just the network and then the "server" could get a few hours of runtime on its own.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>I would go for a secondhand old laptop But only if you don't live in Europe, as old laptops tend to be quite energy inefficient by modern standards, and at the current energy prices, you'll see the difference on the yearly bills, between an old laptop and a new one running 24/7 in your house. You can get chines barebones with modern quad core 11th gen Intel Celeron chips that sip power for about 150 Euros. The best part is that some are even flanless so they're dead silent and there's no more worrying about cleaning the dust from the fan every few months. Just chuck it somewhere out of sight and you never have to thin about it physically.

rakoo 4y ago
It's definitely not cheaper, but it's much better for the environment. It is clear today that digital pollution happens mainly during the production stage rather than the using stage.

newaccount74 4y ago

Lithium batteries have a finite lifetime and I wouldn't want an old lithium ion battery hanging on the charger 24/7 in my appartment. Fire risk is too big.

ThrowawayR2 4y ago

Keeping the laptop's battery at 100% charge on laptops will shorten its lifespan considerably and they won't find out whether the battery has gone bad until the power goes out. Some newer laptops have charge limiting that can mitigate this but a secondhand laptop likely won't.