diy - DIY & Electronics

>>826
Do they still work?

>>826
I have two laptops with dead screens.
I'm going to turn them into headless servers, eventually.

you can make one a media station, just get a hdmi and a media linux distro

You can always donate them.

>>827
They all work pretty well. I just don't know what to do with them. I'm thinking about making a one a pentester but have no real use for the two.
>>829
Muh rasberry already does that
>>830
But they are my babies ;_;

>>838
Just try random linux distros on it.

>>826
>run linux distros
>have a LAN with your buds
>NAS box/media box
>turn them into servers
>mine a cryptocurrency

They're old and probably not ideal for all of those, but it should give you an idea.

seed box

donate them to lainchan.

>>877

This, at least one should be a seedbox, and maybe just a storage device. I've got 1 gaming laptop that I never use, my bedputer, that I'm using now, and my seedbox, that used to be my bedputer, before I got the gaming laptop. You can probably also run streams off of one, although that's a lot of bandwidth.

It really is nice to have a seedbox. You never have to worry about your ratios, again, since you can just keep that thing on 24/7.

>>879
How do I donate? Isn't Kalyxx in germany or some soykaf?

>>883
See https://lainchan.org/donate You can donate bitcoin if that gets you off

>>884
So I just put one computer mine bitcoins for Kalyxx. This could work even tough these laptops are 12-4 years old.

>>880
Any tips for using a pc as a seedbox?

>>883
You can go on IRC and talk to Kayx about it if you want to send him the computers. I'm sure him or darkengine can find some use out of it.

>>886
this won't do anything. Mining Bitcoin has become extremely hard, where you need huge computer farms to do it for a profit. Maybe you can look into mining some alt coins but I doubt it'd do you much good with such old hardware.

>>887

Using a PC as a seedbox is dead easy. Really, the biggest difficulty is having enough space to hold all of the soykaf that you're trying to seed. Heat is the next biggest issue, but a laptop cooler, or an improved fan, can help with that. Winter is the best time for seeding, I'll often download big new releases, that I couldn't give a fuarrrk about, just to seed them, during the winter months, because heat isn't an issue.
You might want to look into turning off your screen, to reduce some wear and tear, and help with the heat. Using a lightweight linux distro helps, if only to minimize, again, the wear and tear. Plus, you'll have to restart less, when it comes to updates. The last thing, is simple. Plug the seedbox into the router, with a CAT5 cable. That helps quite a bit.

The benefits of having a dedicated seedbox are quite simple. "I have a seedbox" is basically all those private tracker interviewers want to hear. Having a dedicated seedbox will more or less get you a free pass, when it comes to trackers. I would suggest it to anyone who has a laptop or an older computer laying around.

Make a beowulf cluster out of them.

>>826
if they have usb3 or esata a seed box. You can use usb2.0 just not preferred. (or just use internal drives)

>>887
>seedbox
Install linux. Antergos is my favorite distro. Easy as balls to install and lets you set full disk encryption. Deluge is my favorite torrent program because plugins and webUI interface. qbittorent is better on cpu usage though idk if it has webui. Both support linux but you will likely have to build it for your distro.

>>937
Why not rtorrent?

>>1052
The console version of deluge 2.x (I think it's the dev version) is better than rtorrent in every aspect, you should try it.

>>1053
>is better than rtorrent in every aspect

Go on, I am listening. I'm not >>1052 How is it better? Could you list reasons or link an article?

>>1054
The ncurses interface (the one they added in (I think) version 2.0 to replace the command prompt it used to have) is more configurable and prettier IMO, the controls are more intuitive, it works with a daemon so it has a TUI, a GUI and (IIRC) a web interface, has a config menu so you don't have to edit the config file and makes it easier to configure things like post-download actions, has a file search thing that works like ranger so you don't have to type the path to the .torrent file, has a sequential download feature (download the files from the first to the last instead of however else) that I find really useful, doesn't have a lot of forks that extend functionality because it can be extended with plugins, and seems to be under more active development.

The only thing I don't like about it is that it has a green background that impedes bg transparency from the terminal emulator and looks a bit gross. And it doesn't handle small terminal sizes, but that didn't cause me any trouble.

Anyway, it's been a long time since I last used rtorrent so I might be wrong somewhere but if you like rtorrent, deluge-console is at least worth a try.