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[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What are people doing with these mini PCs?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I use 4 of them. 2 run services, one being primaries (DNS, Mail, etc), and the other secondary services and backups of the first. 2 more are CARPed OpnSense boxes.

I needed to replace my old server which was my old desktop, and I grabbed some deals from Aliexpress for cheap. Now I have redundant disks and machines, which is nice.

Edit: And I chose low power options, so all 4 use less power than my old server.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So no one is actually gaming on them, right? Because that sounds really dumb.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

There's low resource games that would do fine. You aren't gonna be able to run a graphics intense FPS, but I've seen people run Minecraft, stardew valley and the like on minis.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually, we use an Intel n150 miniPC for playing Zwift with the bike trainer. So I guess I have 5.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

I didn't realize you could run Zwift on your own PC...

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

mini PC things.

...or PC things, but mini.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Super helpful, thanks

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Proxmox server, *arr stack, Jellyfin, dns filtering, reverse proxy, home assistant, plant management, file server, archive warrior ...

Want me to continue?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] utjebe@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a decent 1080p gaming rig. Obviously you need to manage expectations but these AMD iGPUs are very capable.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anything you'd need a smaller system for that a laptop/notebook can't achieve but a traditional deskrop/sff system is to big for.

In the end it's just a small PC.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

that a laptop/notebook can't achieve

It's not going to do anything you can't do with a laptop because they're using laptop processors.

but a traditional deskrop/sff system is to big for.

Too big how?