▲ 1865 ▼ Used to consume not produce (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 354 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Mrchromebox made a replacement firmware for chromebooks so you can install other operating systems on them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Nice! Hadn’t heard of this project. The old chromebooks are easy to find in e-waste lots, mostly from schools. Hardware’s not ancient. Presumably optimized for web services. Just a lot of broken screens and keyboards. But if you stack ‘em like server blades in a beowulf cluster you might have a decently power-efficient and scalable host for microservices, web apps, lemmy instances, whatever. With UPS for each node lol. Basically free. I dunno, could be a fun class project for the kids to learn on with a minimal budget? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html I like your ideas, even though I don't understand it all. :) Tell the kids I am counting on them!!! permalink fedilink source parent [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago Intersting. He devinetively wasnt him. We also didnt had chromebooks. We had thinkpads and normal office PCs (all with the same configuration) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Nice! Hadn’t heard of this project. The old chromebooks are easy to find in e-waste lots, mostly from schools. Hardware’s not ancient. Presumably optimized for web services. Just a lot of broken screens and keyboards. But if you stack ‘em like server blades in a beowulf cluster you might have a decently power-efficient and scalable host for microservices, web apps, lemmy instances, whatever. With UPS for each node lol. Basically free. I dunno, could be a fun class project for the kids to learn on with a minimal budget? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html I like your ideas, even though I don't understand it all. :) Tell the kids I am counting on them!!! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html I like your ideas, even though I don't understand it all. :) Tell the kids I am counting on them!!! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago Intersting. He devinetively wasnt him. We also didnt had chromebooks. We had thinkpads and normal office PCs (all with the same configuration) permalink fedilink source parent
