The worst laptop you can find could probably be better than even a reasonably specced VPS. Low end VPS are dire, and you can get some pretty decent laptops for almost nothing. If it’s pre 8th Gen. Intel they’re basically worthless on the used market. But they’ll still easily get the job done.

I just hope they keep the real world power usage down. I currently have a 5800x3d and if I can’t find a good mobo I might just upgrade to this if it performs well and doesn’t consume 120 watts at all times.

I’d stick with XP. Most software written for windows 95 and up will run on XP, and it’s still new enough to connect to modernism file shares to download files. There’s a ton of games and hardware that works best with XP.

As soon as you install Linux on a machine like that it becomes just an old boring PC.

My friend had an older MSI gaming laptop and it was built like SHIT. He didn’t use it a whole lot until he started working at our company and it lasted maybe 4 years of reasonable daily use. Physically it was fine because he never actually touched the laptop. But that thing was so incredibly unstable and eventually ended with it’s M.2 and it’s internal sata slots being unusable, and making the machine take 5 minutes to boot.

I also bought two MSI “business” laptops and those things were absolute junk too. The touch panel came from the factory broken. Thankfully nobody wants to use that shit so we just disabled. But my co worker dropped one the other day and we need to replace the whole display assembly but I can’t for the life of me find parts for the machine. After about two weeks of searching my only options were A. a whole ass laptop for $500 (thankfully they depreciate lick a rock) or B. A complete display assembly for $375. No thanks, we’re replacing those pieces of shit.

Unless you want to game on it save yourself the suffering and just get a used thinkpad. The T14 gen 1 goes for $200 easily and it’s quadcore CPU is sufficient, and you can find it with the 6 core. I bought a T14 s gen 2 AMD for $300 and it’s 6 core blows that T14 out of the water and gets far better battery life, plus it’s iGPU ain’t no slouch. (All prices USD, can will probably be higher)

Side note are there any good hardware swap communities on lemmy? I have a number of old machines I need to get rid of.

There’s probably a better way but…

Open the page, right click, inspect, paste these in there and possibly expand the node list for users.

Users

document.querySelectorAll('.person-listing')

Comunities:

document.querySelectorAll('.community-link')

I had 0 users, but 69 communities.

I take it this only works for A. games and B. modern systems?

I’m more interested in software than games, especially on older machines. But managing it has always been a pain. I went through the trouble of making a zip disk of old software, and a nice GUI for navigating it. But I’d love something a bit smarter for these old machines.

Mad? No. Unhappy? Yes. If I don’t want the food I’m not going to eat the food. I don’t want people to waste their money on something I don’t want.

Even if it’s not my money I don’t like unnecessary spending.

I have an N100 box for my router and it’s great for singe gigabit or less. But > 1gbit and you really quickly need some serious hardware.

At work I was using a VM with 2 cores from a xeon 4215 and it struggled to get anything more than 2 gbit. As soon as I bumped it up to 4 cores I was able to get the full 4gbit speeds. If I wanted to do any traffic shaping or packet inspection speeds would tank. Also my OpenVPN speeds kinda suck on this N100 device. They’re never great, but I can definitely tell I’m getting CPU bound vs when I ran it on my server. So if you plan on running extra services don’t expect the greatest performance.

A lot of networking traffic is single core dependent so I’ve been trying to find one of those weird 5 core machines with 1 P core and 4 E cores which I think would be the perfect fit.

Gift cards are intentionally earmarked for a specific purpose.

For a specific purpose at a specific vendor. And that’s why I hate gift cards. What if I want to go out to eat at a nice restaurant, but not the one they gave me the gift card for? Now you can’t go to the place you wanted to go to.

Or what if I want to buy something online, and it’s 50% off at vendor A but full price at vendor B and the gift card is for vendor B? Now your stick between paying for the item like normal, or wasting money getting it from the place that takes your gift card.

What I want to know is why Prof. McGonagalls laptop is an STI

After switching to Mac OS I have 0 interest in using Linux on my actual conputer. I still have windows machine for work, and my servers are all Linux. But any machine I want to use is gonna run Mac.

Windows 10 is over 10 years old at this point. Microsoft learned from XP It can’t live forever.

Businesses typically lease their machines for 2-3 years so they all support 11. And do you really think the government cares about regular citizens? lol.

Is that just to work out your core muscles? Because these easier ways to work them out.

Plus if something has been ignored for so long that it basically needs a full rewrite of some aspect then even if you have the skills to do it, you can’t realistically do it because it’s such a big problem.

Also I’m pretty sure they took that out of the TOS a while ago.

Docker requires hardware virtualization so kinda but not really. Apparently it runs inside of a VM so that’s a no go.

Honestly I think you’re asking way too much for a VPS, or even a full blown server. If you want to run CAD software you’ll also want a remotely capable GPU and you won’t get that in a server unless you’ve explicitly put something in it. The built in GPUs in servers are like radeon 3450s that are 15 years old and are basically just video adapters and not actual “graphics processing units”. If you have your own server I’d throw a GPU in there and try running your software there. But honestly any remotely modern laptop will probably run faster than a cheap rented server.

Docker Desktop for Linux runs a Virtual Machine (VM).

Looks like you’d still need virtualization.

With a vps expect to lose all virtualization

256 is plenty for me until I started adding lossless music. I don’t normally store a lot actually on my phone at any given time.

My current phone is 1tb mostly for the memes. It even when I had an android phone with an SD card slot I didn’t bother using it since SD cards are fiddly garbage.

I’d say 95 was around the peak. It didn’t start it, but it ensured it got to be as massive as it was.