Last night, someone mentioned his ThinkCentre for his homelab. And since then I've been searching the web for different solutions for a homelab, mostly thin clients. There are interesting low-cost offers. One of my favourites at the moment are HP t640 because of their embedded Ryzen CPUs. But as soon as I look for just a small upgrade the price "skyrockets" from 80 Euro for the t640 to 190 Euro for the t740. When looking for new hardware there's currently an offer for the Acemagic K1 with a Ryzen 5 7430U barebones for 210 Euro and with 16GB/512GB for 280 Euro. This CPU has much more power than the older embedded ones while still running with a 15W TDP.

For assessing the difference between CPUs I often resort to cpubenchmark.net: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5991vs3574vs3486/AMD-Ryzen-5-7430U-vs-AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-V1756B-vs-AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-R1505G

#homelab #refurbished #thinclient #10inch

@fristi_ebooks use a #fanless #ThinClient as a #Server?

#Reuse #FrugalComputing #MiniServer

@Sirs0ri np.

I can recommend the "upcycling" & "reuse" route given #ThinClients offer decent performance for a mini server and more often than not are completely fanless, making them excellent at home.

• I do use an #hp t620 for that myself, and unlike the #ProBook|s it seems hp didn't do #DRM with the #RAM on their #ThinClient|s...

It's not that I don't say any other brand is bad, but those brands have been reliable to me and are known to use reliable & new components and not new-old-stock or "upcycled" chips ripped from older machines and sticks.

• And since you ain't looking for some "vintage" SD-RAM there's no need to dive into those.

@drazraeltod Used business computers, a #ThinClient like the #T620 for example, are quite popular as an htpc. You can get them for cheap second hand as entire offices upgrade and liquidate their old models.
Thing is there's no optical drive though. Maybe you're better served by an external optical drive over usb ? Optical drives are definitely less and less common on computers in general, so that will limit your choice

Microsoft's dedicated cloud PCs called Windows 365 Link are coming to Germany

The "Windows 365 Link" is a thin client without its own operating system, as everything runs in the cloud. The mini PC is available in Germany for 419 euros.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-s-dedicated-cloud-PCs-called-Windows-365-Link-are-coming-to-Germany-10342118.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#CloudComputing #IT #Microsoft #MiniPC #ThinClient #Windows #news

Microsofts dedizierte Cloud-PCs namens Windows 365 Link kommen nach Deutschland

Der "Windows 365 Link" ist ein Thin Client ohne eigenes Betriebssystem, denn alles läuft in der Cloud. Der Mini-PC ist in Deutschland für 419 Euro zu bekommen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsofts-dedizierte-Cloud-PCs-namens-Windows-365-Link-kommen-nach-Deutschland-10342109.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#CloudComputing #IT #Microsoft #MiniPC #ThinClient #Windows #news

@fuchsiii @grumpygamer oftentimes said cores ain't even "dedicaded" but shared...

• In the case of #CyberBunker they literally sold #Nehalem(-EX) hardware to customers (cross referenced by datasheets/specsheets and the fact they never updated the listings in 15+ years!)

"shared core VPS" are a very big mistake, espechally on Hosters like #Hetzner...

• Ask me how I know!

So OFC said systems are overworked, espechally the convenience-based options where one just shoves on files and tells it to "bake it"...

• OFC it shouldn't be the responsibility of a #GameDev to #DIY one's own #CI / #CD infrastructure, and I think given the size and complexity of said games it would be overkill to do so.

If feasible, just grab' yourself a decently performing PC/Server/Laptop you can chug in a closet, SSH/RDP onto and use it as "build servant" ("Rechenknecht") to run your builds and then sent a notification once done.

• Since speed is of no real concern, but #EnergyConsumption is (@€0,33/kWh), I got some #fanless #ThinClient as a #MiniServer with some external SSD plugged into USB 3.0

Looking at some old pictures. Here's an elementary school computer lab I worked with in 2009. We repurposed their older PCs as thin clients, booting up to a central server running Ubuntu LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). Ubuntu 8.04 IIRC.

We did this to all 7 of their schools' computer labs. It was a blast!

#linux #ltsp #ubuntu #retrocomputing #education #school #thinclient

@noblefeu also das mit Farbe ist ne Frage des Panels.

• Bei #eInk gibt's nur wenige ACeP panels die 7 Farben können.

Wasserdichtigkeit geht notfalls per Hülle (gibt reputable Hersteller die sogar Druckwasserdichtigkeit für's Tauchen garantieren, brsucht halt buttons)...

• Mensch muss in jedem Falle bei jedem Hersteller und Gerät einzeln nachfragen, ob diese entsprecjende Features haben.

Sowas wie "#ePub-Dateien ohne #DRM von #microSD lesen und anzeigen" sollte jeder halbwegs taugliche #eReader können. Ansonsten ist es allenfalls nen "#ThinClient für geschlossene Systeme" (vgl. #Amazon #Kindle)!

HP plugs 233 security leaks in the Thin Client OS ThinPro

HP's Linux-based ThinPro operating system for thin clients contains hundreds of security vulnerabilities. An update plugs them all.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/HP-plugs-233-security-leaks-in-the-Thin-Client-OS-ThinPro-10303242.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#HewlettPackard #Security #ThinClient #news

HP stopft 233 Sicherheitslecks im Thin-Client-OS ThinPro

HPs Linux-basiertes ThinPro-Betriebssystem für Thin-Clients enthält hunderte Sicherheitslücken. Ein Update stopft sie alle.

https://www.heise.de/news/HP-stopft-233-Sicherheitslecks-im-Thin-Client-OS-ThinPro-10303123.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#HewlettPackard #Security #ThinClient #news

Lilbits: Mini-laptops, thin clients, and mid-range smartphone chips

The Chuwi MiniBook is a mini-laptop with an 8 inch display that’s been around in one form or another since 2019. Chuwi gave the little laptop a spec bump a few times over the years, and the most recent model features an Intel N100 Alder Lake-N processor. But I’m not aware of any stores that are actually selling that model… at least not to customers in the US.

It turns out you can buy a […]

#bargains #chuwiMinibook #dimensity6400 #dimensity7400 #dimensity7400x #japan #lilbits #mediatek #miniLaptop #raspberryPi #raspberryPiCm5 #thinClient #zwide

Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-mini-laptops-thin-clients-and-mid-range-smartphone-chips/

NComputing RX540 and RX580 are thin clients powered by a Raspberry Pi CM5. Designed to connect to cloud servers for virtual desktop applications, they also has a "locked-down Chromium browser" and MS Teams apps pre-installed. https://buff.ly/41ezisa #RaspberryPiCM5 #ThinClient #NComputing

Show me your Sun Ray smartcards !

#retrocomputing #sun #sunray #smartcard #thinclient

@leon_miller @topher Or just get them to people who need one but can't afford buying new anyway.

• Shure a #ThinClient ain't gonna play Roblox or Fortnite but it'll allow people to do basic office stuff and watch some videos...

@MaliciousCarp consider some #fanless #amd64 #ThinClient instead....

• The work great as mini-servers, can accept quite a lot of RAM and usually have at meast USB 3.0 & M.2 B-Key slots...

@QuietMisdreavus you could setup a miniserver with like #Proxmox and have a #VM with #Kodi front it's direct I/O.

• Otherwise it may be cheaper, simpler and easier to just get a an old #ThinClient and abuse it as a downloadibg slave...

Wie habt Ihr Euren #homeassistant auf dem #thinclient laufen?
Homeassistant OS, Docker oder Supervised?
Ich habe noch ne Raspberrymatic, die daneben laufen soll - entweder als addon (dann HAOS oder supervised) oder als eigenen Container.
MQTT, nodered, grafana genauso.

@whatsgoingdom ich hab mir dafür einen älteren ThinClient besorgt und dann mit ProxMox bespielt.
Funktioniert gut, aber ich liebäugel auch mit etwas mehr Leistung.
Die Welle der 'nicht mehr Unterstützten' Geräte müsste ja aber irgendwann kommen...

#proxmox #thinclient #homelab #homeserver

Sadly only a fancy paper wheigt in my collection but hands down the best thin client ever designed and so much ahead of it's time.

#SunMicrosystems #Unix #SPARC #ThinClient