What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)?

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• Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  you should indeed use one as your home media server. but you may not need to figure out how to control them. if you have a smart TV or a Roku, then you can always just set up a Jellyfin on the server and stream to your TV, which would allow you to use your normal remote.

  for the other one, you can turn it into a NAS for backup purposes or something. there’s honestly a ton of different things you can do fairly easily.

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    then you can always just set up a Jellyfin on the server and stream to your TV, which would allow you to use your normal remote.

    Or simply laptop to the TV via the HDMI output and run it directly.

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  • rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Any recommendation on which one would be better suited for each proposed scenario?

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    • Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, I’ve read about people using Mac Minis as home servers, so I’m assuming that one is more powerful than the HP laptop. You’ll probably want to make it the media server.

      The HP laptop doesn’t need to be all powerful in order to function as a NAS, so that’s a good job for something with such weak specs. I would remove the battery though. If you keep it plugged in all the time you won’t need it, and batteries that stay charged all the time will end up being ruined anyway. Better to just recycle that than to risk ending up with a spicy pillow.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, my C2D Mini that I’ve been using as a backup server for the last decade just died. I’d be happy to receive a replacement :D

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  • rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d like to try Nextcloud just for fun! And I like the idea of a NAS. I would need to learn how to do that though. I used to have a Synology NAS, but I’m not sure how I would do it on the Mac.

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s essentially built-in, although the server package helps with administrative tools if you want network-based accounts as well, or quotas etc.

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can you run Linux on the Mac mini? Pretty decent hardware there for a NAS / media server / machine for docker experiments.

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  • rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it would require a partition but I’m pretty sure, yes.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been itching for a reason to grab a Mac mini for a little project PC for a while. I’d throw Linux on it and have a little machine for homelab type stuff. NAS, Plex/Jellyfin, Pi Hole, self hosted Bitwarden, etc.

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can sell the Mac mini for $800 on Facebook marketplace since that’s what everyone else does.

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  • rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Um what? I don’t think it was even worth that much when it released lol.

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    • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The big question is if anybody is buying them.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Recycling is an option.

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