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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

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[-] ayyo@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 days ago

This is the answers I come to Lemmy for thank you bestie

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

Sorry, I didn't mean to be an ass. It's a dumb movie quote. I hope you get some proper answers fam.

[-] ayyo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Lol you're fine, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic here it was a genuine response I thought it was funny :)

Movie quote? I recognize it from a recurring Rob Schneider character on SNL. What movie was it in?

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

I had to look it up because I didn't remember. Aparently "the hot chick" from 2002:

https://youtu.be/BWMfj_wZ9Ec

SNL might have been first but not being from the US I've never watched that.

Yup! Though that's Adam Sandler doing the bit in the Rob Schneider movie, the original bit on SNL was done by Schneider (originally in 1993 i think). 🙂

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