Oh it works now, but that charger you got is iffy at best and you’ve got probs another hour’s worth of battery before it stops working and you have to go buy a new one.
ahahah a couple years ago a mate’s workplace was decomissoning a site. They said “Take what you want, we’ll ewaste what’s left after this weekend” All the millenial coworkers grabbed maybe a chair, maybe a monitor or two.
Me and said mate (a fellow genXer) rented a truck. And we cleared that fucking joint out, including “broken” laptops and entire comms racks.
My problem is I want all that stuff but don’t know what to do with it. I have an optiplex in a server cabinet and an RPI knockoff I get stuck with every time I try to do something
Start playing with home automation. HAOS is free and Ikea have cheap matter devices
(I built a custom rack, it has two pizza boxes - one testbed, one ‘production’, both running proxmox. Production one has our automation, a virtual xp box for legacy drivers and an alpine middleman for the symlinks. Under that is a dedicated win7 box offline and kvm’d because fuck 10 onwards, the UPS, webserver and de switches. Fikeserver lives off yo one side because that was a fuckoff massive kitbash i did years ago on an old proliant 1500 scsi chassis)
I restarted my work laptop so many times this morning and it still works :(
Have you tried starting it with a hammer?
Hammers leave marks. The Removalists taught me to start it with a phonebook instead
Oh it works now, but that charger you got is iffy at best and you’ve got probs another hour’s worth of battery before it stops working and you have to go buy a new one.
Lets hope all these updates thrash the SSD and deplete the storage health. That’s how I got to take home my last work laptop
ahahah a couple years ago a mate’s workplace was decomissoning a site. They said “Take what you want, we’ll ewaste what’s left after this weekend” All the millenial coworkers grabbed maybe a chair, maybe a monitor or two.
Me and said mate (a fellow genXer) rented a truck. And we cleared that fucking joint out, including “broken” laptops and entire comms racks.
My problem is I want all that stuff but don’t know what to do with it. I have an optiplex in a server cabinet and an RPI knockoff I get stuck with every time I try to do something
Start playing with home automation. HAOS is free and Ikea have cheap matter devices
(I built a custom rack, it has two pizza boxes - one testbed, one ‘production’, both running proxmox. Production one has our automation, a virtual xp box for legacy drivers and an alpine middleman for the symlinks. Under that is a dedicated win7 box offline and kvm’d because fuck 10 onwards, the UPS, webserver and de switches. Fikeserver lives off yo one side because that was a fuckoff massive kitbash i did years ago on an old proliant 1500 scsi chassis)
Fiddle with the internet somehow lol “oh no how will I ever do any work with the internet out? Woe! Woe is me!” And so on and so forth
Jumping into the bios and turning the wifi off would be a good way to free up a friday afteroon whilst the IT guy looks at it