What would you do a a project for a spare computer?

submitted by la_cues from self.technology

I've just received a free laptop that I've factory reset (Windows 7).

I'm looking to make it into something cool/useful for me and the wife.

Maybe interested in making a cloud storage system for our devices?

Looking for ideas.

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[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit, but:

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Some ideas: Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Bookstack, Miniflux

[–]m68k 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you have wifi, then making a home storage server is very possible. I suggest searching for information on that, depending on your platform of choice.

[–]newguy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Connect it to an old tv and put tv shows and movies on it. Media server

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To round out the great suggestions youve got so far, maybe a PiHole to clean up your DNS service, or turn it into a wall mounted photo player.