Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by agumonkey on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:42PM (#44219362)

what are the specs ? I use a 10yo thinkpad with a core i3 and arch based desktop, sometimes the web is too heavy (discord or similar webapps) but it's mostly fine.

it's true that with a bit of education, you can get pretty far with old machines

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by safety1st on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:57AM (#44224013)

CPU: Intel i7-3630QM (8) @ 3.400GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

Memory: 7818MiB

Those specs are showing their age for sure, but I run the TV at 1366x768, so they've been enough. The CPU has been an absolute champ. I'm sure running XFCE as the window manager has a lot to do with why it trucks along, XFCE is amazingly low footprint and snappy.

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by agumonkey on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @02:05AM (#44244633)

Thanks, I can see how an i7 with a discrete gpu could keep handling most things easily.

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