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Dacexi119968yI use my old PC as a capture pc. Since I have Linux I can't use shadowplay, so I just added a cap card to it and did some software magic :)
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athlon172468yI gave my old computer second life by making it home media center. Just put Arch Linux on it, install Kodi and you got decent way to watch movies.
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I turned my old laptop into a SchoolLaptop (Arch with Gnome) put an SSD into it and used the old 750GB HDD on my Raspi as NFS-Nas.
If I want to watch Movies I just plug my RPi Zero W (LibreELEC) into my PCs USB-Port (power) attach my TV via HDMI and use my TV-Remote to use it. -
So far my computers have straight-up died on me, saving me the emotions expressed in the cartoon (e.g. "That job was running for *weeks* and now you decide to blow a cap on the motherboard????")
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Then I'm a psychopath.. I salvage every HDD if I can, take the steppers out of the optic drives if I don't need them, if an HDD is IDE I pull out its magnets, every ventilator gets recycled and the PSU is very useful for Arduino projects or just basic electric wire if it's busted
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nalread4048ySo far I gave my old PC to my nephew... and 3 months later it's motherboard died. Do you know how hard is it to find the exact same model from ~10 years ago? Still I'm pretty much a tech hoarder - still have and occasionally use my acer aspire one with mint on xfce. Still love this little guy.
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@nalread I also have an old Aspire One running Lubuntu :) This thing still works as fine as it did the day I bought it! đ
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@Florens Its a hassle installing it. In Manjaro ffmpeg worked not correct after that.
Maybe I should try it again and my problems are already solved. -
Dacexi119967y@Florens @LinusCDE I had to install the Nvidia drivers with no monitor output. I had to memorize the steps. Not going down that rabbit hole again....
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shaji12487yI use my 12(!) Year old PC as a media center with the latest Arch Linux. Connected it to a new TV via vga and use it with Android apps and a wireless keyboard. I even put in a pci WiFi card!
So true...
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