Everyone knows they only got through Moneybags Medical School because of their parent Dr. Moneybags Senior... It's nepotism all the way! And they got a degree in cosmetic nephrology - what makes them qualified to study potato PCs?
On a serious note, I sometimes see low-end Win7 laptops for the price of just taking them away, them strugling with streaming lowres video on the web. What kind of modern mainstream Linux distro would make it bearable to browse forums and print text with?
At this point, I think the vast majority of performance issues would be caused by the browser itself trying to render overcomplicated javascript-infested pages, not the distro or DE. Pick any distro you want, but use a lightweight browser.
Steaming on a web browser won't work well, but if you can download the file and open it with mpv, or open dev tools and find the stream URL and send it to MPV then it should play fine.
Also I second xfce, any distro will do, I still recommend upgrading to ssd if you can, it's a HUGE performance increase whatever the specks of the machine are.
Try waterfox browser with adblocks. On linux one of the more heavy thing is the desktop manager, so maybe avoid gnome distros, cinammon is also a little bit heavy. If you want to go barebone there are many lightweight distros . Remember that you can run the distro from the bootable usb. Before install anything use the browser and check some video on youtube in full hd or even 4k.
Have you ever held a magnet up to them? They might just be aluminum coated to prevent what’s shown in the image.
There are a few manufacturers that make magnetic case fan filters and such, that wouldn’t make sense if most cases were full aluminum.
Maybe you still had aluminum cases, but then they were probably also rather expensive, because it’s more difficult to manufacture in that thickness without being brittle.
Not going to lie, I kind of want to bury a case in the woods for a few seasons, clean it up just enough to mount hardware/not be crawling in literal bugs.
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meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 98 pts · 211d
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 211d
Calm down Dr. Moneybags - look how many RAM chips are on that DIMM... No need to flex your wealth!
multiplewolves@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 211d
They didn’t spend eight years in moneybags medical school to be Mx/Mr/Ms/Mrs, thankyouverymuch
fartographer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d
Eight years, and people still question Dr. Moneybags on potato PC trutherism
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 211d
Everyone knows they only got through Moneybags Medical School because of their parent Dr. Moneybags Senior... It's nepotism all the way! And they got a degree in cosmetic nephrology - what makes them qualified to study potato PCs?
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d
Nepotatoes
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d
Pfff I go by Maestro tyvm. Doctors are chumps. I'm poor as a shitmouse but at least I'm poor in style
justdaveisfine@piefed.social · 73 pts · 211d
Everyone in the dev community keeps talking about how good Rust is, so its great to see it in action.
Edit: Dang, just realized the title already did the pun. I am eternally shamed.
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 211d
Hupf@feddit.org · 53 pts · 211d
That dGPU seems excessive, also the case would be optional.
muhyb@programming.dev · 94 pts · 211d
It sure is
Hupf@feddit.org · 19 pts · 211d
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 211d
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 211d
You shouldn't need to run
makeas root, except maybe formake install.Pika@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 211d
Sorry,
make legalrequires the lawyer subroutine which requires full access to everything to verify you have the money to be able to make such a claimmech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 211d
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 211d
This comment wins the Threadiverse for today.
Is it possible to learn this power?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 211d
True, also two sticks of ram and a CPU fan?
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 1 pts · 211d
And look at all those Molex and SATA connectors. Multiple storage devices is pretty fancy.
said@lemmy.sdf.org · 36 pts · 211d
Is this the full rust rewrite everyone is talking about?
MissingGhost@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 211d
Incorrect. Linux can run on conputers from the 1990s. That computer is newer than that. It is not the minimum requirements.
Hule@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 211d
IKR? That GPU has a dedicated power connector!
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 211d
Yeah, that beast can probably host one medium size corporate with Linux, and do some crypto mining on the side
meow@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 211d
It has a gpu, thats overkill!!!
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · 25 pts · 211d
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 211d
Abusing? Nahh, my homelab is powered by an AMD A6-5400K that I rescued a decade ago, you're in good company.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 211d
it's a quad core?? damn, the decadence is unimaginable
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 211d
Four things at once!? 😳
mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 211d
Pic related - The server farm compiling the entire slackbuilds repository for Slackware:
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 211d
Hey, I was hosting the entire Servarr stack on a Raspberry Pi 2B, and it was working no issues. But I removed it, as I did not really utilised it.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 211d
I have a Dell Optiplex i5 running JellyFin at home too. I think you're good to go.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 15 pts · 212d
But if you clean out the dirt, the File Manager might stop starting.
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 211d
A bit of salty water will do the trick 👍
festnt@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 211d
the computer holes are happy, at least! :D
kieron115@startrek.website · 4 pts · 211d
what, do i dare ask, are the computer holes?
bilb@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 211d
The smiling holes in the picture!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d
Drive rail attachment points
kieron115@startrek.website · 5 pts · 211d
hah, computers have had the same drive rail layout for so long that i didn't even notice! .^_^.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d
They make the computer compute fast
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 211d
*optional
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 211d
Must be nice having enough money to afford a factory-made case.
hexdream@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d
Rust support is solid at least.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 211d
I see a SATA cable, this machine is too new.
FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 211d
Still bloated
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d
Okay, so I've got a potato with a Pentium sticker on it, and these racing stripes are too make it go faster.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 211d
On a serious note, I sometimes see low-end Win7 laptops for the price of just taking them away, them strugling with streaming lowres video on the web. What kind of modern mainstream Linux distro would make it bearable to browse forums and print text with?
regdog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d
Any Linux that can run a leightweight desktop like Xfce should do it.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 211d
At this point, I think the vast majority of performance issues would be caused by the browser itself trying to render overcomplicated javascript-infested pages, not the distro or DE. Pick any distro you want, but use a lightweight browser.
sefra1@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 211d
Steaming on a web browser won't work well, but if you can download the file and open it with mpv, or open dev tools and find the stream URL and send it to MPV then it should play fine.
Also I second xfce, any distro will do, I still recommend upgrading to ssd if you can, it's a HUGE performance increase whatever the specks of the machine are.
Morph9@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 211d
Try waterfox browser with adblocks. On linux one of the more heavy thing is the desktop manager, so maybe avoid gnome distros, cinammon is also a little bit heavy. If you want to go barebone there are many lightweight distros . Remember that you can run the distro from the bootable usb. Before install anything use the browser and check some video on youtube in full hd or even 4k.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d
Guess PC cases were steel back then
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 211d
Uh.. PC cases are still mostly steel. Maybe not carbon steel, but also not high marine grade stainless.
Lian Li is the only manufacturer I know of to make aluminum cases and they're freaking expensive.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d
Last couple cases I had and still have are aluminum
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 2 pts · 211d
Have you ever held a magnet up to them? They might just be aluminum coated to prevent what’s shown in the image.
There are a few manufacturers that make magnetic case fan filters and such, that wouldn’t make sense if most cases were full aluminum.
Maybe you still had aluminum cases, but then they were probably also rather expensive, because it’s more difficult to manufacture in that thickness without being brittle.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 211d
Not going to lie, I kind of want to bury a case in the woods for a few seasons, clean it up just enough to mount hardware/not be crawling in literal bugs.