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Ran an old laptop as home server for years. It’s OKish as a starting point into selfhosted world but overall not ideal. The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation. Not really something I’d co locate unless it was a DC physically near me so that stopping by is easy
You don't need any of those.
Ran an old laptop as home server for years. It’s OKish as a starting point into selfhosted world but overall not ideal. The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation. Not really something I’d co locate unless it was a DC physically near me so that stopping by is easy
I remember having this old Dell Latitude, where you could easily swap out the battery pack with a button/tab thing on the back, without having to open anything else up - I even got a spare bigger capacity battery, but it would work without one altogether when connected to the power brick.
I unironically think that all laptops should be built like that.
Redundancy, I hear you saying! What if you’d have no electricity for an hour? OK then. I’d have another laptop at some else place then, and have two powerful servers for like still one fifth of the price. Can you beat that?
Ran an old laptop as home server for years. It’s OKish as a starting point into selfhosted world but overall not ideal. The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation. Not really something I’d co locate unless it was a DC physically near me so that stopping by is easy
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Not just the batteries. User supplied power bricks sounds like an incredibly bad idea at pretty much any scale.
Wait, power bricks are a fire hazard?
But the cheapo replacement ones that you see people buy from Amazon, Ali Express, Ebay, etc... can be really not good. :(
Great idea but is this real? Its a page hosted on CLoudFlare's "pages.dev" service. Their method of contact is a Google Form which does have an email address on this domain "CoLaptop [dot] com", but that as a web address does not work. I'm not sure they have their act together.
Ran an old laptop as home server for years. It’s OKish as a starting point into selfhosted world but overall not ideal. The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation. Not really something I’d co locate unless it was a DC physically near me so that stopping by is easy
> The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation. I remember having this old Dell Latitude, where you could easily swap out the battery pack with a button/tab thing on the back, without having to open anything else up - I even got a spare bigger capacity battery, but it would work without one altogether when connected to the power brick. I unironically think that a…
Two words: ECC RAM
Wait, whats the point of this if I can have my old laptop running in my garage?
In theory—the data center they'd put your laptop in has a much faster, and more reliable, internet connection than your garage.
This seems very sketchy. Give us your laptop and we promise we won't keep it... > © 2024 CoLaptop. All rights reserved. Website copyright is out of date by two years... And the website has been online since then. https://crt.sh/?q=colaptop.pages.dev > Thank you for your interest. Please submit the form below and we'll get back to you within 2 working days. > - Team @ CoLaptop.com Also colaptop.com is not even registe…