Over the past few years ive gotten desktops from various smaller thrift stores but not i feel like i have too many and im not sure what to so with them? Do i save them and turn them into a bugger project? Do i make a nas out of one of them? Im stumped theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start, or if this is even the right place to post in?
I pretty much saved theses from e-waste and scalpers but most of the machines are devices nobody wants or has a issue.
You can eke a lot of use out of an old computer as long as it’s not a public server. I ran my sister’s old Celeron laptop as a Debian server for doing local sftp file transfers at my parents’ house when visiting there for holidays, which it was perfectly useful for until like 2018, when it finally fully died. In the end it ran as a server more years than it was useful as a windows workstation.