• utopianfiat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

    Really old laptops have PCMCIA slots too that you can hook into newer interfaces. I used a PCMCIA eSATA card for a laptop NAS!

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      1 year ago

      The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

      Absolutely. I still have my laptop from high school, and it’s battery has been long gone. The screen is on its last legs.

      Maybe it will be a server one day, but for now it’s my DnD laptop. Sucks a bit when somebody bumps the power cord and the battlemap turns off. But it’s still limping by.