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I work on a desktop, but as a backup I have bought a refurbished Dell Latitude, there are a lot of decent ones for €250 on eBay. Put Linux on it, it’s good enou
by sph 4mo ago
I work on a desktop, but as a backup I have bought a refurbished Dell Latitude, there are a lot of decent ones for €250 on eBay. Put Linux on it, it’s good enough for most workloads.
I just hope my top shelf 2020-era desktop doesn’t die on me because it would get very expensive to get a new build these days.
- drnick1 4mo ago> I just hope my top shelf 2020-era desktop doesn’t die on me because it would get very expensive to get a new build these days. I could probably sell my gaming rig (12900K, 64GB of DDR5, 4TB NVME, RTX 3090) for more today than what I built it for about 4 years ago, it's absurd. I won't, of course, because it's still glorious for 4K gaming even today. In retrospect, $5000 very well spent.
- ornornor 4mo agoYou might sell it for more but buying a replacement costs even more so you’re losing money either way. The only way is to sell and never look back.
- drnick1 4mo agoI won't sell my 3090. It's still one of the best cards for a local AI and gaming mixed use. I put a waterblock on it and it just purrs along at 50C no matter what I throw at it.
- jermaustin1 4mo agoI have a similar rig, but a 10th gen i7, 128GB of DDR4, 2TB NVMe, and dual RTX 3090s. Built it in 2021 for crypto mining, it ended up paying itself off just before Eth went PoW. I kept it mining even after profitability, because it ran warm enough to heat my apartment leaving my HVAC on fan-only to circulate the heat around. After winter, I started playing with various other GPU loads until LLMs and SD became easy enough to use. Now it's my experimentation machine. It's already paid for itself, so anything I sell it for would be profit, but it is still super nice for running local LLMs that power various projects "for free".
- dv35z 4mo agoI did exactly this and suggest it. Used Dell Latitude (the one I got is one from 2019 - model 5300). I put Linux Mint Debian Edition (https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php) on it. Works absolutely great. Small Dell Optiplexes are good for desktop computers.
- chasd00 4mo agoI got an old hp elitedesk off of eBay, I don’t remember the cpu but it has 8 gig of ram and an ssd. Ubuntu+dokku and it runs all my self hosted stuff.
- dzonga 4mo agoin the U.S & other regions it sucks cz you can hardly ever get static ip addresses at residential addresses to host things & expose to the internet