fosstodon.org is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.

Administered by:

Server stats:

10K
active users

#thinkcentre

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Project #minirack is done :)
The goal was to have a nice "living room capable" 10" rack to hold my #homeasssitant box with a touch display for smart home control, a network switch and a UPS.
And no it is not living in the livingroom now, nor was it planned ;) I could have moved the network wiring to the back/inside, but in the end it needed a little nerd factor.

Mostly made from laser cut plywood in #kumiko pattern that I spray painted black, and some 3D printed parts. All self designed/built except for the metal rails in the corners.
And did I mention it's ALL powered by USB-C PD internally? 😍

Fekk ein "#1962 Error: No operating system found." på ein #Lenovo #ThinkCentre her om dagen. Men start frå USB og live-kjøring med ArchCraft, Debian 12 og Ubuntu Studio fungerte alle fint. Men reboot gjekk rett til 1962. Ingen CSM i BIOS (som eg ser er foreslått...), og SATA-kabel såg tilsynelatande ok ut. Nokon som har vore borti slikt?

Continued thread

To be clear, my M1 mini has actually been only running as a Plex server and I use my #ThinkPad T480 as my primary machine.

I'm almost done replacing the function of the #Plex server with an Aoostar R1. It's part of my #ProxMox cluster and has the Intel N100, so transcoding will be hardware based.

This also has the advantage of being able to run #TrueNAS and migrating my DAS from the M1.

The function of the #ThinkCentre P360 will be to do the AI stuff I find slow on the M1.

I have an old #AIO #ThinkCentre I5 machine, It has 8gb of ram, 240gb ssd drive, is a dual core, with hyper threading.
I installed #LinuxMint 22.0 and it will randomly freeze, and never comes back, I have to hard reset it. Did all the updates, that didn't help.
The really interesting thing, I don't think it's a hardware issue, #Mint 21.3 runs quick and fast, and no freezes.
Maybe 22 has an issue with the SSD, it seems to freeze when accessing it mostly

Ich suche einen #minipc , der extrem leise ist, #affinity bequem meistert und auch mit 3d Anwendungen klar kommt. Kein Gaming. Er soll technisch auf dem neuesten Stand sein, #Thunderbolt haben und als kompletten Ersatz meines Desktop PC dienen. Soll ich passive Kühlung wagen? Ich liebäugele mit einem #thinkcentre , aber die Lautstärke in einigen Reviews hat mich abgeschreckt.
Erfahrungen? Tipps? 🙏🏻

After using my laptop as a semi-permanent "desktop" for years, just picked up an actual desktop: a refurbished ThinkCentre M720q for a good price because "no Windows installed".

No problem! :linux: 🙂

Clean and solid little device. Also easiest-to-upgrade computer I've ever had. Single screw to remove the top panel, slide off bottom panel, add second stick of RAM bringing it to 32GB and a 1TB m.2 SSD.

This clip shows how easy:
youtu.be/ctuhDZKHd8U?si=7e0Nsh

Thought I'd try #HaikuOS on a couple of old 32-bit #x86 machines.

First, an IBM #ThinkCentre S50. The P4 3.0 GHz HT handles it relatively well, with the virtual cores averaging at about 10% at idle, the machine pulling 75W from the wall.

The second is a VXL Itona thin client, with a Via Eden 1.0 GHz. This little Mini-ITX box is struggling a bit more, averaging around 40% CPU, pulling 15W from the wall.