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What are some good uses for an old laptop?

+1 for the 'selfhosting' communities.

If the battery is so shot it's basically tethered, you could use it like a server. My gateway drug into that world was spinning up some Docker containers to do some of the neat things others have suggested (media server - Plex/Jellyfin; DNS adblocking - Pihole; home automation - Homeassistant).

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Looking for recommendations for a mini pc server to start self hosting

Another vote for Asrock Deskmini. I’ve had an A300 going for a while now. It started off just doing a few things on Docker, it’s now been repurposed as a Proxmox host. The nvme plus 2x 2.5” sata is very useful for storage options, and you can put some reasonable desktop CPUs in - subject to cooling, of which you can get a very low profile replacement if you need to. As there’s no video on the motherboard and no space to fit a PCIe (let alone the video card) you are restricted to CPUs with onboard video, which I think is more of a restraint for the AMD version than the intel, but even so there are enough options in the AMD lineup if you need firepower.

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Kbin Enhancement Suite (KES) now working on iOS

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I believe so - three dash button, top left corner on mobile. I’ve attached a screenshot of what I see. As I understand it, the wrench menu should be where the home button is on there? I’m using the right-most (purpleish) colour theme, but I’ve cycled through all of them and refreshed the page to see if that did something, but no change.

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