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[–] penguin_knight 45 points 2 years ago (6 children)

i disaseemble all my laptops so they are just a motherboard, screw them into sheets of MDF, place vertically, and use them as servers.

NAS, pihole, plex, etc

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have any photos of this?
Would love to see how this looks in practice!

[–] AkatsukiLevi 12 points 2 years ago

Up! Also would love to see how it looks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have a tutorial? That sounds awesome.

[–] Bitlummo 6 points 2 years ago

This article talks about turning a laptop into a rack mounted computer. Each computer will be different recreating something like this based off what ports it has and where.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Ummm... I need to know more. Photos? This sounds interesting!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My problem is that the ethernetports Clip is part of the case, without it, the Ethernet cable just doesn't stick. Do you have a solution for this problem? A photo would be really cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hot Glue or if you wanna be fancy Silicone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I looked at my old boards again and I think tape will be my material of choice.

[–] Tired8281 2 points 2 years ago

Get a M.2 ethernet card and put it in where the wifi card was. You don't need wifi if you're gonna use ethernet, and the M,2 ethernet card will have a clip.

[–] x4740N 4 points 2 years ago

I'd also like to see what this looks like with a photo

[–] marswarrior 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Do you do a headless install like Ubuntu Server Preseed?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cobbler/Preseed

Or do you install linux on an SSD from a different machine, then plug it into MDF mounted laptop mobo?

[–] Thade780 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would guess by plugging external peripherals to the motherboard.

[–] marswarrior 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about the LCD/monitor. Maybe @penguin_knight keeps the LCD and mounts it to the board as well. If not, it's headless. Mouse and keyboard are not the issue. I always set up raspberry pi headless because the OS allows it. All you have to do is add an ssh file to the /boot dir and wpa_supplicant.conf file in root dir. Other distros typically don't, they need a monitor to be installed.

[–] Thade780 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know, that's why I wrote external peripherals and not external inputs. I don't want to sound cocky or be an asshole (we all know how easy it is by just reading a message someone you don't know wrote), but after 24 years of being in system administration/engineering/architecture I may have sufficient grasp of what I am talking about. 😅

[–] marswarrior 2 points 2 years ago