I’ve got a Lenovo M720q running as my main server in my home and it’s more than powerful enough for anything I could be doing right now. However, I also have a Le Potato lying around that I’d like to do something with. Any suggestions?

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish
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    14 hours ago
    1. DNS resolver, like pi-hole, unbound with adguard, diversion, etc.
    2. RMS server: a lot of Remote Desktop software has the option to install a listener on a low power device elsewhere on the network that can use wake-on-lan to access computers within the network without keeping everything on 24-7.
    3. Log aggregator: would be useful for anyone who troubleshoots stuff regularly, but historical info of any kind can come in handy.
      Simplest form might be a scribe server. Network gear often has an option to send logs to a particular URL, so if you added the scribe server IP/port to the field you’d have historical network logs.
      Additional loggers could also be run on-device, such as a wifi connectivity checker or a Fing server.
      If you have a smart home setup, you could also log state data or energy monitoring history at a particular interval, or run a homebridge or homeassistant instance.

    Edit: list subitem formatting messed up

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          Since we’re open sourcing your comment (🇨🇳 our comment, comrade), may I suggest you split the list? A lot of the services are things that can run on an SBC but OP already has extra computing power on a mini PC, so are likely better hosted there. A subset of them offer clear benefits being hosted in a small appliance.

          Edit: to be clear, I’m thinking OP wouldn’t consider items 7-13 a strong enough case to spin a separate machine.