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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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You can eke a lot of use out of an old computer as long as it's not a public server. I ran my sister's old Celeron laptop as a Debian server for doing local sftp file transfers at my parents' house when visiting there for holidays, which it was perfectly useful for until like 2018, when it finally fully died. In the end it ran as a server more years than it was useful as a windows workstation.