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I already have a nas running on one. I already have a Kodi/HTPC desktop. Running endeavor w/ KDE.

I was going to put regular arch on it but was wondering if anyone had some other ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I put 3 of them into a proxmox cluster with multi network plugged into the WIFI m.2 A+E slots so they can act as router and other servers and I can migrate from system to system when/if I need to do maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was thinking that... Have you tried this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yes - I have been running IPFire on an old desktop for several years now and I really like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I used an old thin client as a pfSense firewall for years... but the DSL into passthrough mode and effectively made that a modem, so in effect pfSense was the "router"

If you don't have something like that, it's a step up from a standard ISP one.

Not sure about long term power consumption though...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I run docker on my nas. (Openmediavault)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could turn it into a emulation box, play some classics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I kinda already have that on my HTPC with retroarch. Any tips for roms? Feel free to dm.

Do you have experience with N64 rooms and modern controllers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've tried it twice but can't seem to get the feel for it. I thinknit might be overkill for anything I need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I was about to say something snarky about VMWare, but... Proxmox took me a bit to get used to, but now that I have it figured out, I really like it. It's totally overkill for me, but one day...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Scratch machine to test Ansible playbooks for maintaining and restoring your other servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I just use VM's for that. I recently learned that Vagrant, an infra as code for virtual machines designed for creating testing VMs, creates an Ansible Inventory that you can run your playbooks at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Flip it for cash.