The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down the citizenship restrictions. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.
The case will be argued in the spring. A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts.
If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.
To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe. The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad."
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.The degenerate gamblers on Polymarket are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war between Ukraine and Russia. To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe.
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One of ISW’s most famous products is its live map of the war in Ukraine. The think tank updates the map throughout the day based on a number of different factors including on the ground reports. The map is considered the gold standard for reporting on the current front lines of the conflict, so much so that Polymarket uses it to resolve bets on its website.The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad.” According to Polymarket, “this market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if, according to the ISW map, Russia captures the intersection between Vatutina Vulytsya and Puhachova Vulytsya located in Myrnohrad by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. The intersection station will be considered captured if any part of the intersection is shaded red on the ISW map by the resolution date. If the area is not shaded red by December 31, 2025, 11:59 PM ET, the market will resolve to ‘NO.’” On November 15, just before one of the bets was resolved, someone at ISW edited its map to show that Russia had advanced through the intersection and taken control of it. After the market resolved, the red shading on the map vanished, suggesting someone at ISW editing permissions on the map had tweaked it ahead of the market resolving.
According to Polymarket’s ledger, the market resolved without dispute and paid out its winnings. Polymarket did not immediately respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment about the incident.
ISW acknowledged the stealth edit, but did not say if it was made because of the betting markets. “It has come to ISW’s attention that an unauthorized and unapproved edit to the interactive map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was made on the night of November 15-16 EST. The unauthorized edit was removed before the day’s normal workflow began on November 16 and did not affect ISW mapping on that or any subsequent day. The edit did not form any part of the assessment of authorized map changes on that or any other day. We apologize to our readers and the users of our maps for this incident,” ISW said in a statement on its website.
ISW did say it isn’t happy that Polymarket is using its map of the war as a gambling resource.
“ISW is committed to providing trusted, objective assessments of conflicts that pose threats to the United States and its allies and partners to inform decision-makers, journalists, humanitarian organizations, and citizens about devastating wars,” the think tank told 404 Media. “ISW has become aware that some organizations and individuals are promoting betting on the course of the war in Ukraine and that ISW’s maps are being used to adjudicate that betting. ISW strongly disapproves of such activities and strenuously objects to the use of our maps for such purposes, for which we emphatically do not give consent.”
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Do you know anything else about this story? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at +1 347 762-9212 or send me an email at matthew@404media.co.But ISW can’t do anything to stop people from gambling on the outcome of a brutal conflict and the prediction markets are full of gamblers laying money on various aspects of the conflict. Will Russia x Ukraine ceasefire in 2025? has a trading volume of more than $46 million. Polymarket is trending “no.” Will Russia enter Khatine by December 31? is a smaller bet with a little more than $5,000 in trading volume.
Practically every town and city along the frontlines of the war between Russia and Ukraine has a market and gamblers with an interest in geopolitics can get lost in the minutia about the war. To bet on the outcome of a war is grotesque. On Polymarket and other predictive gambling sites, millions of dollars trade hands based on the outcomes of battles that kill hundreds of people. It also creates an incentive for the manipulation of the war and data about the war. If someone involved can make extra cash by manipulating a map, they will. It’s 2025 and war is still a racket. Humans have just figured out new ways to profit from it.
Interactive Map: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
This interactive map complements the static control-of-terrain maps that ISW daily produces with high-fidelity.Esri
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39882721
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]URL: peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_vid…
Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.
If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.
One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.
When you get a chance, please check them out.
#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]URL: peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_vid…
Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.
If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.
One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.
When you get a chance, please check them out.
#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza
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Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?
Over the past few years ive gotten desktops from various smaller thrift stores but not i feel like i have too many and im not sure what to so with them? Do i save them and turn them into a bugger project? Do i make a nas out of one of them? Im stumped theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start, or if this is even the right place to post in?
I pretty much saved theses from e-waste and scalpers but most of the machines are devices nobody wants or has a issue.
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me trying to find common sense in newspaper/yt comment sections
people who comment on newspapers or on yt are usuallh lacking of this for some reason
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i just do ls -R / | grep -i "common sense"
i know it's super inefficient but i'm the only one who uses it so dude who fucking cares
I only see
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Perché in Europa viaggiare in treno costa di più che viaggiare in aereo
Perché in Europa viaggiare in treno costa di più che viaggiare in aereo
Sebbene i viaggi in treno attraverso l'Europa siano di gran lunga migliori per l'ambiente, i viaggi internazionali in treno costano molto di più dei voli, e nel caso dell'Italia, anche i viaggi nazionali.Veronica Miglio (Geopop)
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I was given a steam giftcard for my b-day, what now?
Not sure if this goes here but i have a steam giftcard, but i also like free stuff for example piracy even if i barley do so and dont know much about it.
Its only 20 bucks but im not sure what its worth putting into.
Should i just get like a steam deck or something with a mix of my money and the gift card?
What would you advise?
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Here's my rule of piracy if you're buying something
- You're really passionate about the product and you really want to support the developer or publisher
- The game gets frequent updates which you see value in which causes issues whenever you have to download updates separately from another site
- there is some type of online or connect feature that you cannot get offline that you see value in... This can be mods or multiplayer etc
Or if you want to play a game on a steam deck and it's really cheap. After all, you and I both know it's incredibly easy to play something on steam deck straight from Steam rather than having to shortcut to a pirated exe
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Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released
A federal judge on Friday gave the Justice Department permission to release transcripts of a grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of underage girls in Florida — a case that ultimately ended without any federal charges being filed against the millionaire sex offender.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before a grand jury.
Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Pentagon Deploys New Kamikaze Drone Copied From Iranian Design
The Pentagon is deploying to the Middle East a new kamikaze drone copied from a widely used Iranian version, turning to a crude but effective weapon.
The move mirrors an Iranian tactic of recovering crashed American drones, such as the Central Intelligence Agency’s RQ-170 Sentinel, and reverse-engineering them to build their own versions. It is also an early example of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s initiative, known as Drone Dominance, to buy cheap drones made by American companies that can quickly be moved to the field.
How to work around RAM prices?
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” - /var/log/simon
Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end datavarlogsimon.leaflet.pub
"End-to-end encrypted using the time-tested ROT-13 cypher."
Or something even more porous.
Florida starts redistricting talks in a growing battle for House control in 2026 elections
https://apnews.com/article/florida-redistricting-congress-trump-0ed1cc98d7aa3de46653dee5b5d4cea0
Critics Take Hakeem Jeffries To Task For Praising Trump's Latest Pardon
Critics Take Hakeem Jeffries To Task For Praising Trump's Latest Pardon
Many blasted the House minority leader's reaction to Trump pardoning a Democrat who was indicted on charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent.Ben Blanchet (HuffPost)
So... a simple lookup table. What's the big whoop? Oh, wait, they used the word AI and Quantum!
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4x6 thermal label printers on linux
Does anyone have 4x6 thermal label printers working on Linux?
I have tried several thermal printers, zebra and off brands, none of them work on Linux, also tried arch, mint, manjaro, Ubuntu, and a few others.
Printers all detect and install, but never prints. I messed with CUPS settings, didnt help. I also tried LPrint. Didnt work. Nothing comes out any of the label printers. Not even the sample test labels.
Been using Linux for about 2 years full time. I only have windows to print shipping labels.
I HATE using windows 10 and refuse to use 11. Now with no updates it’s the last thing I need to replace.
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GitHub - PMCSilva/phomemo_PM-241-BT: Repository containing a python script code capable to print a label on a PM-241-BT printer from phomemo. It is possible to use this python script in all 3 main operating systems (e.g. Linux (Ubuntu), Mac OS, Windows).
Repository containing a python script code capable to print a label on a PM-241-BT printer from phomemo. It is possible to use this python script in all 3 main operating systems (e.g. Linux (Ubuntu...GitHub
Just a questions, are such thermal printers useful for home users? I find them quite interesting since they are fast. They could make sense if one just wants to print a tiny snippet of information like a shopping list, a street adress, or a password, and one does not want to fire up a laser printer and print a whole A4 page.
(Thinking about that, passwords are an interesting use case... often a paper copy makes sense and the copy needs to match exactly.)
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Alternate title:
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that ruined the Internet
[Jacobin] Citizenship by Algorithm: Narendra Modi transformed India’s biometric ID system from a tool for promoting social welfare into a mechanism of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.
Archive link in case anyone hits a paywall.
This article is from September, but it is good, and in light of other recent efforts by the Indian government at mass surveillance of their population, I think it is worth a read.
A system like Aadhaar is a great way for governments to sneak in a platform of surveillance and control under the guise of welfare and could serve as a model for other governments seeking to supercharge their own surveillance efforts.
Citizenship by Algorithm
Narendra Modi transformed India’s biometric ID system from a tool for promoting social welfare into a mechanism of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.jacobin.com
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They're torturing Marwan Barghouti
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Building a package manager is kind of a large project, so I'd recommend trying to build some smaller applications in C# first. That will help you set up your development environment and get a better grasp on the language and ecosystem.
Once you've got an okay understanding of the language, I think a package manager would be a great project to learn with (especially if it's something you're interested in)!
- do I invent my own pkg format or do I use pre built packages like deb or rpm? I think the later one will be more easier
Whether you build your own package format or use one from another manager is up to you. If you want to learn how a specific package manager works, consider integrating with their package format. If you want to design a full system, consider designing your own (and maybe take inspiration from some existing solutions). I wouldn't say that using an existing format would be strictly easier, as those formats are specially designed and can often be very complicated.
- where should I start?
This is a tricky question for any application. I'd highly recommend spending a little bit of time to determine roughly what steps will need to be done for each stage of package management (i.e., creating a package, publishing a package, installing a package). Since you're just doing this to learn, it's okay if it's not perfect or if there are portions that are missed, it's just important to get some thoughts out. When you actually start writing code, you'll probably want to focus on the more fundamental aspects that block the other stages (implement package creation before implementing installation)
Ci ha lasciato Sandro Giacobbe, cantante genovese innamorato della propria città
La scorsa estate aveva collaborato con il concittadino Empi in un rewind di uno dei suoi brani più noti: Sarà la nostalgia.
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2025 National Security Strategy Released
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39904354
whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uplo…Lots of interesting things here, but here are a few key points:
- They are explicit about reviving the Monroe doctrine, specifically saying they need to readjust their military specifically to "address urgent threats" in the Americas
- A push to make their ~~vassals~~ allies build up their own military, saying "The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over" (kinda self aggrandizing but okay)
- There's a lot focusing on countering China, but around 80% is talking about economic and industrial stuff, there's surprisingly little about military, mostly saying that they need Japan and the ROK to step up, and also that they "[do] not support any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait." (which implies they wouldn't want Taiwan to declare independence either)
- Saying that Europe's undergoing "civilizational erasure", talks about immigration and free speech, and aiming towards "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" (sounds kind of like regime change?), and "Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance"
- The Middle East section is basically glazing Trump's peacemaking skills, declaring that the US can step away because the region is stable now (not sure what to say about that)
- They want to pursue more trade and investment with Africa, also something about countering "Islamic terrorist activity"
Speaker Johnson pleads with Republicans to keep concerns private after tumultuous week
House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly.
“They’re going to get upset about things. That’s part of the process,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “It doesn’t bother me. But when there is a conflict or concern, I always ask all members to come to me, don’t go to social media.”
Increasingly, they’re ignoring him.
Cracks inside the GOP conference were stark this week as a member of Johnson’s own leadership team openly accused him of lying, rank-and-file Republicans acted unilaterally to force votes and a leadership-backed bill faltered. It’s all underscored by growing worries that the party is on a path towards losing the majority next year.
Russian troops liberate seven communities in Ukraine operation over week — top brass
Russian troops liberate seven communities in Ukraine operation over week — top brass
In particular, during the week, Battlegroup North units liberated the town of Volchansk in the Kharkov Region through decisive operationsTASS
Russia to continue conflict if Kiev rejects settlement — Kremlin
Russia to continue conflict if Kiev rejects settlement — Kremlin
According to Dmitry Peskov, Russia's position is clear, and it has not changed since the Alaska summitTASS
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Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
Our nostrils share the workload like coworkers on rotation.Sarah Philip (Popular Science)
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Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine
Boat strike commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were smuggling cocaine
Adm. Frank M. Murphy reportedly told lawmakers a second strike was necessary because drugs on the burning vessel remained a threat.Jacob Sullum (Reason Magazine)
Russia's economy is not about to explode
Russia's economy is not about to explode
Yet western propagandists need you to believe that it willIan Proud (The Peacemonger)
Warnings About Retrobright Damaging Plastics After 10 Year Test
Warnings About Retrobright Damaging Plastics After 10 Year Test
Within the retro computing community there exists a lot of controversy about so-called ‘retrobrighting’, which involves methods that seeks to reverse the yellowing that many plastics su…Hackaday
Kash Patel caught ordering FBI agents to drive girlfriend's 'inebriated' pal home: report
Kash Patel caught ordering FBI agents to drive girlfriend's 'inebriated' pal home: report
Kash Patel’s girlfriend issues are not going away with MS NOW reporting that the embattled FBI director has ordered agents to act as Uber drivers and deliver one his girlfriend’s “inebriated” pals home.Tom Boggioni (Raw Story)
Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/31080853
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
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While it's not a good port, it was still impressive on a technical level. Especially when you consider it was basically done from scratch in about 10 weeks
RIP
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Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Believed 2020 Election Was Stolen: Report
JUST IN: Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Believed Trump’s Election Conspiracy
Brian Cole, 30, the suspect accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., told the FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen, according to a report.Zachary Leeman (Mediaite)
Le dernier MastApéroStrasbourg, ou encore le LastApéroStrasbourg, en mode pirate pour la fin d'année !
N'hésitez pas à venir nous voir !
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204011/kash-patel-fbi-ride-girlfriend-drunk-friend
Kash Patel Used FBI as Uber for His Girlfriend’s Drunk Friend
A new report reveals how Kash Patel and his 27-year-old girlfriend are using the FBI for their own personal errands.The New Republic
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution.The Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution.The Cloudflare Blog
aquacat
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •How old are we talking?
In the end PCs are useful only if you can run useful sodtware on them, but besides nostalgia there ain't much use I see in them.
Grumpy404
in reply to aquacat • • •I have a mix of eras of computer ranging from ddr to ddr3. most of what i have is from the windows 7 era, my "collection" mostly contains dell OptiPlex's or whatever looks neat.
Ive heard you can do alot with a dell OptiPlex but i want to make a nas but im unsure how well it would be to store personal files with?
aquacat
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Since there are a lot of OptiPlexses with different specs I will give you a general advice for making home servers.
Use newest desktop you have and/or the one that took the least beating since you will need all the perfotmance and uptime you can get.
If you opt for used storage (like some hard drives you have), make them into RAID with redundancy (at lrast one possible drive failiure, preferably two if you can).
Also look for power efficiency, so if you have a laptop (and can add at least 2 drives in it for RAID) or a recent i3 or i5 dekstop (or even i7 if undervolted) that would be your best bet.
Also look for decent network interface card. Try to avoid 10/100mbit and look for 1gbit, though I doubt that old PCs can even push 1gbit. Also make sure that the LAN plays nice with linux.
For the OS, use something stable like debian, or if you want to thinker Alpine is fun and also really stable. Also Ubuntu Server is a solid choice.
When deploying services like a file server if you just want something that works (or at least should be easier than other options) YunoHost or CasaOS are your friends, but you can learn docker (or run without encapsulation) and nginx (or other reverse proxy I don't care).
For a file server everyone has their preference, but I use SeaFile since it is crossflatform and simple with good integration.
As I said, for any questions about selfhosting just hit c/selfhosted and ask away.
curbstickle
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •What kind of machines are we talking about here?
A recent-ish tiny/mini/micro is a vastly different answer than a kaypro luggable.
Grumpy404
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in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Potentially 1st to 3rd (mayyyybbbeeee 4th) gen Intel iX series. On the edge of useful for common tasks. Can support most DEs, but not necessarily a great experience depending on what you want running.
Best use for them is going to be light server tasks, but just to mention, latter versions were drastically more efficient, so you may pay more in a power bill than it would cost to look for more recent ewasted hardware. I generally pick up 6th gen or newer, for reference, though I have a 4th gen doing... Something. I think all thats on there is some webserver stuff, DNS, etc.
Could also be usable as a kids PC for gcompris, emulation for the less modern environments, etc. If you would consider a raspberry pi, its a solid fit.
Without more spec details it would be tough to say more.
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in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Rip the parts out and pour epoxy all over them and make sure there are no Bibles in the pour.
Have giant tabletop made of computer
I've never seen one in person but they look soooo sick online
lattrommi
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in reply to JasonDJ • • •Lmao wth autocorrect, the Bible was supposed to be bubble.
There should be a funny autocorrects community here lol
JasonDJ
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in reply to Ithral • • •From what I can tell, people have supposedly run LLMs on it with not great, but not necessarily horrible results; Certainly has to be better than those clickbait posts about people running llama on Windows 98.
A lot of budget desktops from the past decade can at least match, if not significantly outclass a Raspberry Pi 5. Heck, that barely beats my i5 from 2009, and the performance of CPUs has increased significantly since then.
Then again, I'm not particular interested in gen ML, self-hosted or not, so I don't really care.
solrize
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in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Pick the first project that you think of and chase it down. If it sucks, then reformat the drive and do something else. Video game systems and file servers are great. So is installing a different OS on each, just to experience the differences side by side.
Do NOT continue "analysis paralysis".
state of over-analyzing which leads to decision delay and worse outcome
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)morto
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in reply to Grumpy404 • • •I'm in a similar boat. I use old computers for spare parts and hobby projects (e.g. I did Linux From Scratch on an old second-hand Thinkpad I picked up on a whim). I think cheap second hand computers are great for tinkerers e.g. you can flash custom firmware without worrying about bricking the mobo.
You could also use them as servers if you have any services you want to host.
Also if you truly have no use for them, fix them up, install something like Linux Mint on them, and give them away.
cricbuzz [he/him]
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Make an awesome homeverver out of them! Cancel your streaming subscriptions
medium.com/linux-shots/self-ho…
Digit
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Some ideas:
If you've several of similar performance, you could:
FuckBigTech347
in reply to Digit • • •I'm intrigued, are there any daemons for this out there that you can recommend? Would be neat.
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in reply to Grumpy404 • • •Explore weird OSs! I got an old Celeron D workstation just for playing around with weird old operating systems.
Its got a 32 bit bios but 64 bit celeron, so the grub stuff has been fund 😅
stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •First of all: get rid of the broken ones. You’re not doing anything with the running systems, so there’s no need to hang on to the ones that don’t run.
Next, make a list of the things you want to do and start doing them.
If you’re worried about power consumption, don’t be. If you’re still worried about power consumption, get an inline watt meter (a kill-a-watt), take some measurements, do the math and feel at ease. If you don’t feel at ease, look up wake on lan. You can have powered down computers turn back on when they get a packet so you don’t need to worry about power consumption.
When you feel like you’ve done enough stuff, get rid of the computers you’re not using.
MonkderVierte
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in reply to Grumpy404 • • •IMHO fix whatever you can, donate it all locally (HackerSpace, RepairCafe, Linux non-profit, etc) as there are quite a few people dedicated to refurbishing computers for schools, people who need a computer to find work, etc.
Then for the tinkering aspect, keep one, that's enough.
Honestly even 1 isn't really required. Pretty much everything listed here can be done more efficiently without an actual physical computer :
Dr. Moose
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to Grumpy404 • • •A suggestion: if you can't find anything else for them, keep them around as parts machines.
There should still be useful components in them. For instance, a lot of the Wi-Fi modems may still be perfectly good for other things as long as they're mini-PCIE (I don't know if they use those in desktops). They may not be the absolute newest standard, but should still do the trick; it certainly came in handy when my sister's laptop's Wi-Fi modem decided to be a brat - I just swapped in an Intel modem from a laptop from 2016.
I might not fully trust the SSDs or the HDDs, but they can still have their uses. There's one SSD from an old desktop that I currently have hooked up to my Wii U.