Yerbouti
I have an old 2009 i5 750, overclocked tp 3.6, with a gtx 1060, 12gn ram and an ssd. I use it in my living room for streaming and I can play pretty much any game I want at 1080p with it. Overall I spend less then 800$ on it, over the spam of 15 years.The socalled PC “master race” is basically capitalist brainwashing.
Actually, I’m avoiding to work with the IT as much as possible. My univ has a contract with Microsoft for the 365 suite so they push us to use that. I’m pretty much the only teacher that cares about privacy and the use of FOSS, so I’m on my own for everything.
I dont completely understand the implication of self-hosting but everything seems to come back to this. Here are a few question I have.
- Could I do it on an old computer running Windows?
- Or could my modern home computer be the server?
- The computer acting as a server would need to be on, and online all the time for me to access the files?
- Would I be able to stream large files (video, audio, etc.) in real-time?
- Would I need to add an SSD if I use the old PC.
Thanks for the help!
I’m seriously considering this. Interesting to know adding a GPU would help for video streaming, I have an unsued GTX1060. The only thing preventing me to do this, is that the setup process of rge server look quite complicated. I know it seems simple and obvious for the geek/linus community, but I spent the last evening warltching tutorials on how to do this, and none of them was using the same method and tools, and they all had some networking skills that I dont have. I’m definitely no digital idiot, but playing with network parameters is intimidating. In case something goes wrong, which will probably happen, I would probably get stuck for a while.
Do you know any good tutorials on an easy way to do this? Also, I have 2 computer I could use, which one would you recommend?
- i5 750 (oberclocked to 3.6), 12gb ram, gtx1060
- Macbook pro mid-2012, i7 2.6Ghz, 16gb ram, geforce GT 650m. Both have SSD. My plan would be to attach an external 6tb HD on USB 3.
Cheers and thanks for the help
I was about to ask basically the same question! I’m actually about to make the same move for my home pc, which I mostly use for streaming and gaming. I already gave a try to Fedora on a VM (gotta say this is the nerdiest name out there) , and I was REALLY impress by how simple, smooth and polish this thing is. To the point where I believe 80% of standard users would be better serve by Linux then Windoss or macOS. The univ and college where I work also uses stupid Office365, but I think you can manage most of your requiere interaction with the browser version. I’m gonna keep a Windows partition because audio and video editing isn’t quite there yet, and VR doest work, but I mostly use my MacBook (not my choice) for those project so my home PC will probably run Linux 99% of the time, now that gaming works.
To work or study at my Univ, you have to give your phone number to Microsoft for the 2fa. They pay shitload of money for Office 365 and they are almist forcing us to use that stupid suite. This year I will give an special course on FOSS alternative to my students. Fuck that bullshit hail corporate.
Who are those characters?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. - Mark Twain
C’est pas le pogo le plus dégelé de la boite.
It kind of translate to: He/she is not the most unfrozen pogo in the box.
It implies that someone is not the smartest person around, actually the opposite.
