Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

2 gigs of ram is going to be incredibly rough in 2025. Linux is better on old hardware but those specs are pretty optimistic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Dude, a single chrome take is going to nom the fuck out of 2gigs.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That's correct, but you can use such low end device as your home server with services like PiHole/AdGuardHome, Invidious, Vaultwarden.

    One of my low end home lab server is running invidious (YouTube front-end) on Ubuntu server 24 and just using about 900 MB RAM.

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  • True, but there are some super lightweight distros like AntiX, Puppy Linux, or Bodhi that can run decently on 2GB even in 2025 - I've got an ancient netbook running AntiX that's suprisingly usable for basic tasks and streaming audio through my soundleaf app.

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