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		Aachen on May 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? New battery is a few tenners compared to a whole new server. Of course, if the competition is a VPS (if a few GB storage is all you need for example) then that will win any day.

Havoc on May 12, 2022 [–]

Yeah it definitely can make sense if you have the gear anyway. Rocked a laptop server for years.

Just saying its a decidedly suboptimal form factor for 24/7

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