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[–] penguin_knight@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

i disaseemble all my laptops so they are just a motherboard, screw them into sheets of MDF, place vertically, and use them as servers.

NAS, pihole, plex, etc

[–] Rain@lm.melonbread.dev 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Do you have any photos of this?
Would love to see how this looks in practice!

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Up! Also would love to see how it looks

[–] lom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You have a tutorial? That sounds awesome.

[–] Bitlummo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

This article talks about turning a laptop into a rack mounted computer. Each computer will be different recreating something like this based off what ports it has and where.