Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reusing my old home server
I had a random thought today, triggered, by all things, by a short training on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at work. This is the principle of first looking for the potential to not produce anything. Then to look for a new use for something old that has already been manufactured. And only then, as a final step, to recycle the thing. I, and probably many other Homelabbers, have quite a bit of older hardware laying around. Hardware that’s still perfectly functional, but which is either too slow, or doesn’t support newer features etc. For me, that’s only two things, because I was a poor student until relatively recently. 😉. The first one not discussed here is a desktop from 2017 which I replaced in 2019. It is an AMD Ryzen 1700x. Still a powerful machine, but quite honestly: A bit more powerful and power hungry than my new many small and less powerful machines Homelab principle calls for. ...