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Hey guys, I have a thin client sitting in my closet. Any suggestions on what I can do with it? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by WarmSoda@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm not going to network anything. It needs to be flashed or whatever to reset it. Can it be used as a storage device, or maybe an emulator box? I'm clueless over here. Any advice and suggestions would be great. Thanks!

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[-] lemonuri@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

You could use that machine as your home server. It would open up a lot of possibilities. Sync your phone contacts and calendars, backup all your systems, store/stream media, host your own clousldserver, your own Internet messenger server for family and friends (snikket for example). Host a Minecraft server for the little ones or whatever comes to mind.

[-] passepartout@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's what I do. I bought a thin client last year, because Raspberry Pi 4s were unavailable to me. So I (fortunately) bought a thin client and got into Proxmox. I have the following containers running on the machine (that i can think of right now):

  • Nextcloud (files, notes, contacts, calendars)
  • Jellyfin (media streaming)
  • Pi hole
  • docker host (with home assistant, traefik as reverse proxy for everything, anything else i want lol)
  • gitlab instance and kubernetes cluster (implemented in three containers, which is just for learning purposes)

Edit: some of the thing i want to do in the future:

  • paperless-ngx (server that a scanner can send files to so your pc doesn't have to be powered on i believe)
  • actual budget (budgeting)
  • mediawiki / kiwix (hosting wikipedia dumps)
  • some other dashboard than heimdall for links to all my services
  • a vpn i can log into from outside of my home network (used to have pivpn on my spare raspberry pi, but want to have it as a container)

Hope i got you some ideas (:

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know about any of those things. Thank you for listing then so I can look into them.

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