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To what use would you put a machine of such specifications ? (media.piefed.ca)
submitted 1 week ago by MastKalandar@piefed.ca to c/linuxhardware@programming.dev
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[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Higher spec than a lot of VPSs, you could run a lot of selfhosted software on it. Anything you can run on an old raspberry pi at least

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, aren't you that c10y person?

Anyway, I won't argue it could be used as a server, but 2 Gigs of Ram and a 2011 CPU paired with a TerraScale IGP is probably worse than almost any VPS. I pay 4.50€ for 4vCPUs and 8 GB of Ram, and that's pretty much the cheapest/smallest option my provider has.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah lol.

Nah there are loads of smaller instances. Pretty much any nano or micro or small AWS instance, for example: t3a.small 2vcpus 2 GiB 9.05/month

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nice, cool project.

Ah, right. Never really got using AWS for small/private stuff. If you're in the ecosystem, that's one thing, and sure, they have global coverage that's hard to beat, but if you just need something for a small deployment, they're so expensive.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Tyty

Yeahh aws are very expensive but they are not the only ones that will sell you servers with as much compute as celery sticks to run your services 😭

[–] clav64@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Upgrade the storage to SSD and you'll find it probably runs like ... fine.

[–] AMA@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If that isn't (gonna be) your main machine, I suggest using it as a home server. You would be suprised with how many amazing things you can self host.

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably not too much. Some web browsing or retro emulation maybe.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you suppose you could browse with such specifications ??

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

time to BOINC on that bad boy, put them cores to work!

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you upgraded the RAM from 2GB to 4GB you could run a business off it using Libreoffice.

You might not even need to upgrade the RAM actually.

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago

That sounds interesting. What kind of business could be run if l increased the Ram space ? I mean, the other specifications remaining the same ??

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ultra high-end gaming machine from the 90s. Play Rainbow Six, Diablo, and others from that era on an impossibly futuristic machine (in 1996). Might need to buy on GOG instead of Steam -- can Steam run on this? I think it's 64-bit only nowadays. I'm guessing this has a 32-bit CPU.

I was also going to say that you could run something that is useful on a selfhosting setup. Garage, an S3 server, has low RAM requirements. But the GPU would be wasted there, and an SSD would be really nice for that use case.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Vps idler