Mastodawn

Won a computer!

A used Lenovo ThinkCenter M710q. No hard drive, but its got decent ram and an it processor. Didn't come with a hdmi port either, but I bought one that will hopefully work. Otherwise I'm going to be trying to use a monitor at work to see if it operates at all as I don't have anything with a displayport orifice at home.

I'll try my old live drive for Mint on it. Though if it does wrok, I'm going to buy a cheap ssd, (if the old sata from my laptop doesn't fit,) and put Debian on it.

If all goes well, it'll live in a cabinet next to my router and become a cloud.

Fingers crossed!

#TourmaLinux #Linux #Lenovo

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Dawn Tåke 🌙

Feb 18

Well, after much dicking around and needing to use both gParted and Disks, I formatted my live Mint USB and slapped Vently on it. That also took some trial and error. After I realized I didn't download a live version kg Debian and it just wanted to install, I gave up testing it for the night and just shoved a bunch of OSes on the drive since its a big one.

I got:
Debian GNOME, Manjaro Xfice, Bazzite, Tails, Elementary, and Pop. I also did some research a bit ago for OSes on weak devices. I need to find that and download those to put on my potato. Since I'll have a blank slate with the ThinkCenter, I'll try out several.

#Linux #Lenovo #Thinkpad #TourmaLinux

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Dawn Tåke 🌙

The moral of the story? Never throw anything away. This is the original HDD from my PS4. I replaced it immediately with a 1TB 7200rpm. This fucker is unused. Its a ton slower than the USB 3.1 gen2 flashdrive I was going to use would be, but its gotta be more robust.

And? Free!

Remembered I had it when I saw an eBay listing for PS4 HDDs.

#Linux #TourmaLinux #PlayStation

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Dawn Tåke 🌙

Mar 2

Got the computer today! Looks good for a little workstatioin and runs fine. I'll post pictures later. Installing #YunoHost atm. I was told it would only be a few minutes, but that's assuming a VPS with SSDs. I'm using that 5200rpm HDD and it's s l o w . Think I'll get tot he end of the DNS stuff and give up for the day.

Shit.

I finally got Port Forwarding set up on my new server. It can finally connect to the internet and run updates.

Now to work on DNS.