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  • circa 2019 gaming laptop
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Intel Core i7-8750H
  • 1TB SSD
  • 12BG RAM

I have a new laptop and don't want to let this one languish in my closet. Any ideas on what I can do with it? TIA.

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[–] gamer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A server is a good choice because it already has a battery backup, so it can stay online even in the event of a power outage. For gaming laptops it’s not an ideal fate since they usually have a GPU and I don’t think most people have a reason to put that to good use in a server, so it’ll just sit there unused.

This site has a huge list of community supported things you can run on a server with instructions + (relatively) little effort.

Edit: just had an idea for the gpu: if it’s powerful enough, you may be able to use it for Stable Diffusion. Look up “A1111 stable diffusion web ui”. It’s not the easiest thing to install, but it’s a cool use case.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Cool.. thank you for the links and ideas!