I’m not going to network anything. It needs to be flashed or whatever to reset it. Can it be used as a storage device, or maybe an emulator box? I’m clueless over here. Any advice and suggestions would be great. Thanks!
you should selfhost lemmy
You could use that machine as your home server. It would open up a lot of possibilities. Sync your phone contacts and calendars, backup all your systems, store/stream media, host your own clousldserver, your own Internet messenger server for family and friends (snikket for example). Host a Minecraft server for the little ones or whatever comes to mind.
That’s what I do. I bought a thin client last year, because Raspberry Pi 4s were unavailable to me. So I (fortunately) bought a thin client and got into Proxmox. I have the following containers running on the machine (that i can think of right now):
- Nextcloud (files, notes, contacts, calendars)
- Jellyfin (media streaming)
- Pi hole
- docker host (with home assistant, traefik as reverse proxy for everything, anything else i want lol)
- gitlab instance and kubernetes cluster (implemented in three containers, which is just for learning purposes)
Edit: some of the thing i want to do in the future:
- paperless-ngx (server that a scanner can send files to so your pc doesn’t have to be powered on i believe)
- actual budget (budgeting)
- mediawiki / kiwix (hosting wikipedia dumps)
- some other dashboard than heimdall for links to all my services
- a vpn i can log into from outside of my home network (used to have pivpn on my spare raspberry pi, but want to have it as a container)
Hope i got you some ideas (:
Perhaps you could share what is the model of your thin client? So we can get a grasp of what we’re dealing with.
Good starting points: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/
Oh man, I’m that guy arnt I? Lol sorry.
She’s a dell, ZxOQ Wyse.I’m checking that link out, very cool
Yup that’s the one
You could set it up as an emulator box, I’m not sure how new of console you could go up to but you could probably run stuff pre-PS2 with it.
PS2 is pretty tough to emulate on older hardware.
Yeah PS2 starts getting iffy. I’ll check out the emulator specs now that I have more info on the client.
If I can move everything up to the Wii into it that’ll save me space on my external.