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Reuse old server for a youth center (lemmy.world)
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Hi I'm a volunteer in a youth center. Some time ago, their organization switched to OneDrive and their old server got shelved. I thought it would be a waste to just throw it out, but I'm not sure what to do with it. It runs on an outdated system (CentOS 7, I believe), but otherwise works fine.

I have dipped my toes into Linux, but I am in no ways an expert.

So I would like to ask for ideas, suggestions or maybe just some pointers. What is a fun way to use a server for a youth center? While I'm at it, any ideas what to do with this?

Use it, donate it, sell it? I'm not trying to profit, by the way. Selling would mean to reinvest it into new equipment for the kids, whatever that may be.

I also have a bunch of Lenovo ThinkCentres and old or broken Notebooks at my disposal.

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

@Yucky_Dimension Unless there is a specific need for you to address, I’d say list everything for sale for a month (especially that memory), then send whatever is left to a recycling center as e-waste. The server is likely too much of a power hog to be useful for anything. The CPU is nearly twenty years old and has a whopping 65W TDP on its two cores. Anything you might do with it would be done better on a newer computer, and the new computer price will break even with the power bill savings after about a year or so. A $100 N100 miniPC running at 6.5W TDP is 3x faster. That server can go to the recycler today unless you want to save a trip next month. The RAM might sell. It’s worth trying.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Seriously, a Core 2 Duo? 4gb DDR2 memory??? That thing is not useful as a server. It just wouldn't have enough power, especially per watt, to really run anything useful.

    The box of DDR3 memory is probably worth something, but it would be hard to move. If you know an electronics recycler they might buy it by weight for a couple bucks.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Alright, thanks. Then I'm going to take out the hard drives and the rest goes in the trash. The ThinkCentres are M93p Tiny, by the way. I put Batocera on one of them and use another to play music. But I can't think of anything else.

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