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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[–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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:

  • Gitea (If you are a programmer)
  • Stash (Organized NSFW-Content ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )
  • Nextcloud
  • Simple-Server ( NAS/SFTP/SSH)
  • MeTube (Youtube-Downloader)
  • Kitchenowl/Mealie (Kitchen-Organization / Mealprep)
  • Lute (Selfhosted Alternative to Duolingo)
  • Speedtest (Monitoring Internet-Speed)
  • wishlist
  • Hortusfox (For managing your Plants)
  • MotionEye (Security-Cam-Monitoring)

On-Device:

  • Libreelec/Kodi (Media-Device)
  • Retroarch (Retro-Gaming-Station)
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Seems most of these Wintel boxes are Intel Celeron/Atom based, so it should be able to run just about any Linux OS.

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    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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