This is to challenge the creativity of the computer lover.

  • Jade@programming.dev
    13·
    9 days ago

    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
      11·
      9 days ago

      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.

      • Jade@programming.dev
        3·
        9 days ago

        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·
          9 days ago

          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.

          • Jade@programming.dev
            2·
            8 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 😭

  • AMA@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    9 days 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.

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
    3·
    9 days ago

    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.onlineEnglish
      1·
      9 days 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.onlineEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    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.