Was given this little wintel box by a friend fairly recently, but I haven’t yet even powered it on. I don’t have a power cable for it unfortunately but when I do, what do you think I should do with it? What would you do with it?
I think it could potentially be just a basic lightweight desktop for web browsing and such, maybe a little smart tv box or something like that to replace the Chromecast I’m ashamed to admit I use, maybe run some basic self hosted stuff like pihole or home assistant? Could probably be a little emulation machine for retro games but I doubt it would be capable of much more than that. But I’m not sure there’s too many ideas! I need suggestions people
You could put your weed in there.
4GB RAM? That’s a whole vanilla Minecraft Java edition server right there, for free! :)
You could check for Linux support. I suppose it runs on an Arm-Processor.
Maybe it runs PostmarketOs.
Edit: If you can run Linux on it:
Selfhosted:
- Gitea (If you are a programmer)
- Stash (Organized NSFW-Content ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )
- Nextcloud
- Simple-Server ( NAS/SFTP/SSH)
- MeTube (Youtube-Downloader)
- Kitchenowl/Mealie (Kitchen-Organization / Mealprep)
- Lute (Selfhosted Alternative to Duolingo)
- Speedtest (Monitoring Internet-Speed)
- wishlist
- Hortusfox (For managing your Plants)
- MotionEye (Security-Cam-Monitoring)
On-Device:
- Libreelec/Kodi (Media-Device)
- Retroarch (Retro-Gaming-Station)
Seems most of these Wintel boxes are Intel Celeron/Atom based, so it should be able to run just about any Linux OS.
Well than the possibilities are endless for OP. Let The Linux-Party begin :P
