• I have a seven year old nephew who I would like to find some computing activities that we could do together. Any ideas?
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[–] 35 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I do not recommend using a seven year old as a server for the following reasons.

  1. their parents will get mad
  2. the neighbors might call the police about all the children you have racked in your basement
  3. they have poor computing power, wait until they're at least in their late teens (although software updates come too late and the system is usually very unstable at that time.)
  4. think of the smell! your house will smell like a kindergarten
  5. food costs are already high enough, add two or four growing kids to that budget and it's far cheaper to run a couple Dell R610s every month.

overall, not worth it mate. good luck though!

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    They are also very noisy, so a basement location might not be enough to suppress the humming and yelling from reaching your living areas.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    @walden This conversation feels like it has taken a dark turn and could be used against me in court one day ..but to be clear...houses generally dont have basements in new zealand

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