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Do you have any old hardware lying around? Old gaming pc, or an old laptop? Doesn’t matter if it has a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad or can’t upgrade to win11. Maybe ask around if someone you knows has something similar.

I’d start with that. Then save the money for an upgrade to the old hardware like adding some extra RAM and a big refurbed hdds.

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Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think we’ve got an old MacBook with a broken screen, and a Windows laptop that slowed down because got a virus on it. Didn’t think I could use something with a broken screen, but I’ll try it maybe.

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- yaroto98@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Either or both will likely work just fine depending on how broken the acreen is. The virusy windows would be easiest (sometimes macbooks are harder to get everything working due to drivers, windows ones typically just work). But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox. I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.
  
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  - Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox Oh yeah, if I do use it I was gonna fully wipe windows into oblivion
    
    I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.
    
    Oh so you can cluster multiple devices? I’ll have to check that out.
    
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    yaroto98@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes you can cluster devices. I have a NAS in addition to the my laptop proxmox cluster. It lets me use the NAS as storage, so the VMs/lxc’s virtual disks are actually on the NAS. This allows me to make the VM/LXCs Highly Available. So if one laptop crashes it’ll automatically spin up the things running on that laptop on a different one. This can also be done with ceph, but I already had the NAS, so ceph seemed redundant.
    
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