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What would you do with a device like this
(sh.itjust.works)
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 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:
On-Device:
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
Well the portemanteau suggests it's WINdows on inTEL, so that makes sense.
It would be odd if a device labeled "Wintel Pro" had an arm CPU.
Wintel means Windows on Intel, or more broadly Windows on any x86 or x86_64 processor.
Forgejo > Gitea, though.
Looks interesting. But i am used to gitea. I use it for Years now on my workplace and in my homelab.
Maybe i will try Forgejo in The future.
For what it's worth I was able to migrate my docker of gitea to a docker of forgejo by just changing the image to be forgejo and remaining some if the environment variables. It uses the game data and database so it's basically a drop in replacement that they have instructions for on their website.
Makes trying it out pretty simple, not sure about migrating back to gitea from forgejo though.