[sph]

I work on a desktop, but as a backup I have bought a refurbished Dell Latitude, there are a lot of decent ones for €250 on eBay. Put Linux on it, it’s good enough for most workloads.

I just hope my top shelf 2020-era desktop doesn’t die on me because it would get very expensive to get a new build these days.

[drnick1]

> I just hope my top shelf 2020-era desktop doesn’t die on me because it would get very expensive to get a new build these days.

I could probably sell my gaming rig (12900K, 64GB of DDR5, 4TB NVME, RTX 3090) for more today than what I built it for about 4 years ago, it's absurd. I won't, of course, because it's still glorious for 4K gaming even today. In retrospect, $5000 very well spent.

[jermaustin1]

I have a similar rig, but a 10th gen i7, 128GB of DDR4, 2TB NVMe, and dual RTX 3090s. Built it in 2021 for crypto mining, it ended up paying itself off just before Eth went PoW. I kept it mining even after profitability, because it ran warm enough to heat my apartment leaving my HVAC on fan-only to circulate the heat around.

After winter, I started playing with various other GPU loads until LLMs and SD became easy enough to use. Now it's my experimentation machine.

It's already paid for itself, so anything I sell it for would be profit, but it is still super nice for running local LLMs that power various projects "for free".

[ornornor]

You might sell it for more but buying a replacement costs even more so you’re losing money either way. The only way is to sell and never look back.

[drnick1]

I won't sell my 3090. It's still one of the best cards for a local AI and gaming mixed use. I put a waterblock on it and it just purrs along at 50C no matter what I throw at it.

[dv35z]

I did exactly this and suggest it. Used Dell Latitude (the one I got is one from 2019 - model 5300). I put Linux Mint Debian Edition (https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php) on it. Works absolutely great.

Small Dell Optiplexes are good for desktop computers.

[chasd00]

I got an old hp elitedesk off of eBay, I don’t remember the cpu but it has 8 gig of ram and an ssd. Ubuntu+dokku and it runs all my self hosted stuff.

[dzonga]

in the U.S & other regions it sucks cz you can hardly ever get static ip addresses at residential addresses to host things & expose to the internet

[api]

It’s almost like the stuff the IPv6 people and the P2P protocol people have said for 25 years was true and correct but nobody listened or cared.

[xigoi]

You can use a reverse proxy.