Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop

• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like you’re looking for a solution you already know the answer to; recycle the laptop if you’re not going to repair it.

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  • Presi300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would bug me a ton if I were to recycle it, as it still technically works, it’s just not worth repairing, as the total cost pretty much equals to getting the same one, but working 2nd hand…

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get that and I’ve been there, but it sounds like you have an existing homelab that can do most of what someone else might do with a broken laptop.

      What ideas did you have?

      And recycle it could mean wipe the drive and donate it to someplace that will recondition it and give it to someone who needs a computer for school/work but can’t afford one.

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      • Presi300@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thing is, it’s gonna need a lot more than a “recondition” to get it back to a “usable as a laptop” status. New screen, new battery, new bottom panel (yeah, that). And I do have some ideas of how to get extra use out of it, occasionally, as my homelab isn’t particularly powerful, I just wanted to get a 2nd opinion about it.

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• hrmtc@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Install Proxmox on it and it could be a second node for anything that you want.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Web server for a Smart Mirror?

  magicmirror.builders

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