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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I’ve been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I’ve got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I’d love some project ideas!
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Download Wikipedia, seed Anna’s archive for a ratio of 2.1+ and then turn it off.
Turn it on again in 2 years time and observe.
Sounds like there’s a story behind this, where could I read more?
It’s about the current (threat?) of purging Wikipedia from articles not fitting into the MAGA mind, e.g. climate, gender, race and others, as well as ‘cleaning’ the inventory of public libraries accordingly.
No, I meant the “Anna’s archive” bit, and “seed for 2.1+ ratio” and turn it off and on again - what’s that about?
(sorry for ressurecting the thread, not used to checking notifications here)
Annas’s archive, an archive of scientific research articles and books, might be affected as well. As the download is likely a peer to peer torrent type, it is good practice to let (at least 2) others participate by seeding while keeping the own footprint low, to avoid becoming a target of ‘anti piracy’ mafia. Setting the seed ratio to 2.1 in the torrent client does essentially this.
gonna need some hard drives lol. wikipedia is only about 100GB. annas archive is like 1PB, and even just the index is 1TB. the various government archives that were collected are at least 500TB (and probably closer to several PB).
other good things to mirror are probably open source code repos (they get taken down all the time - especially emulators, p2p, and now encryption), libretexts, linux repositories, 3d printed gun files, documentation, project gutenberg, the internet archive, openstreetmaps, the reddit archive, and any other content you find personally valuable - including websites and youtube videos.
the sum of this data is in the dozens to hundreds of petabytes, which is obviously infeasible so i personally try to curate what i find personally valuable and of highest societal value and risk, and to partially mirror what i can for the rest.
I bet with 60 GBb RAM it could run Android Studio with almost no lag.
almost no lag.
My daily driver is a 6500T with 32GB RAM running Mint.
Pycharm, Lemmy, FF and Godot runs like a charm.
Run BOINC! Moo wrapper will happily serve GPU work units for a GTX 745
@[email protected] hmm it’s got good amount of RAM, id probably throw Proxmox on it and run it as a server
You could also do some light AI stuffs, but iirc you’ll need to upgrade the GPU to at least the 10xx series for CUDA
Do you have another computer @[email protected] ? I’d make this my main if I didn’t have one. I’d use it as a builder for applications or host a CI server on it. Woodpecker or similar. I know codeberg is looking for CI hosts. Maybe @[email protected] might also have some input on joining the AI horde :)
Or, seed some torrents from the internet archive or Anna’s Archive.
Those gpus are not powerful enough for the horde I’m afraid. Best they could do is csam detection for some instance.
It’s overpowered for just simple network services, and underpowered for gaming. GPU lost driver support a many releases back as well.
CPU will draw a lot of energy just sitting idle, so if you don’t have something solid to throw at it, just leave it.
Could be used for something like a Batocera console I guess, but I wouldn’t leave it running 24/7.
CPU will draw a lot of energy just sitting idle, so if you don’t have something solid to throw at it, just leave it.
Where did you get that idea from? i7-6700k can idle at lower than 4W
Thats my secondary/backup Proxmox server (but don’t rally need that nVidia gfx card).
For the actual (and off site) backups backup server I have an even older one.
The old PCs I don’t gift away just join the homelab, and homemuseum eventually.
Uptime: 29 seconds
I would keep it up for ONE HOUR! :O
Why re-post this? I hope bpt11 reads the answers here or it’s kind of a waste of time.
Bit of an experiment on cross-posting discussion based posts to hopefully encourage more discussion type posts on [email protected] over [email protected]
I kind of dislike it. I mean it’s a good thing if they read it. If not, it just takes 5 minutes out of my day if I come up with a good nuanced answer here, and that’s time I’m not going to spend answering other people’s Linux questions. But it’s alright, you made it completely transparent that this is a re-post. And it’s a good thing to diversify. People often just ask in one big community, or even discuss everything in the super big technology communities even we have dedicated ones for certain specific tech topics.
Yeah true, but don’t feel discouraged if OOP never reads it in similar situations, a good answer is a good answer somebody will read and appreciate it, especially for this common-ish “What can I do with X old hardware?” type questions lol
I can’t tell you how many times I myself was able to glean some insight from ancient forum threads where I was never the OP lmao
Fair enough. I’m a bit unsure whether that happens on Lemmy. My old posts and comments rarely get any votes, interactions or corrections after say two weeks. These people must either be completely passive, or no one reads it after that. With a few minor exceptions. But you’re right. This has happened to me, too. So you have a point here.
Run a homelab/server and do random stuff with it. Maybe even run a small LLM for the funsies. But it’s perfect for tinkering for sure!
A graphics card that old isn’t really useful for modern applications (not even AV streaming since it doesn’t support modern codecs and therefore would be slow). So I’d have no use for it myself.
With 64GB all I can think of is a lot of memory for street map routing (OSRM). Otherwise, homelab it.
Guest computer?
Dedicated server for multi-player games?
Retire the Nvidia card, put the rest in a small case, and make it a Kodi box?
I’d add it to my proxmox cluster and start getting services setup on it. Plain and simple.
