alt Hacker NewsRan an old laptop as home server for years.
It’s OKish as a starting point into selfhosted world but overall not ideal. The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation.
Not really something I’d co locate unless it was a DC physically near me so that stopping by is easy
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First thing I learned attempting the same is that lid open vs closed are two very different situations in terms of thermals.
But overall without aggressive throttling these devices work a maximum of half an hour before the components get saturated with heat and performance tanks.
Also running laptops as 4fun home servers and first thing I do is removing battery, removing whole chassis, even with screen.
You don't need any of those.
I assume this startup yanks all the batteries and runs them in a rack with a UPS.
> The battery is a fire risk and the entire thermal design isn’t really geared towards 24/7 operation.
I remember having this old Dell Latitude, where you could easily swap out the battery pack with a button/tab thing on the back, without having to open anything else up - I even got a spare bigger capacity battery, but it would work without one altogether when connected to the power brick.
I unironically think that all laptops should be built like that.