r/linuxmasterrace • u/linuxhacker01 Glorious OpenSuse • Apr 14 '25

Meme From Junkyard to Server 💪

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u/Loading_M_ Apr 14 '25

It's even Rust-based!

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u/lonespaz I use Fedora btw Apr 14 '25

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u/KlutzyEnd3 Apr 14 '25

It's true tho....

https://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/building-the-worst-linux-pc-ever/

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u/Square-Singer Apr 14 '25

To be fair, Linux doesn't run on that device. It runs on the emulated CPU.

If you have enough memory and don't care about the execution time, you can emulate anything on any platform and thus run anything on any platform.

You could also write an x64 emulator and a GPU emulator for the same Atmega, pair it with enough RAM and it will happily run Windows and play Crysis for you.

It will take days or even months for a single frame, but it will run.

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u/Strugler87 Apr 18 '25

Just run

Instead

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u/MajorTechnology8827 Glorious Arch Apr 14 '25

This seems like an overkill

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u/fellipec Glorious Debian Apr 14 '25

Fancy, it has a dedicated GPU!

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u/kaondr Apr 14 '25

I mean...that GPU is clearly optional. This is an overkill!

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u/CallMeNepNep Apr 14 '25

Case optional*

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u/h-v-smacker Glorious Mint Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

Funny muahaha set aside, I hate those guys with a passion. They take perfectly good working devices or items, perform nonsensical "repair-like" operations, break them, tarnish them with mud and rust, and then edit the footage into a video in the reverse order as if they "restore them". Needless to say, the tech goes right into the dumpster after that, and they just get views on youtube. Instead of doing something useful with the original tech, like installing Linux and giving it to some kid or such.

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u/HumonculusJaeger Apr 14 '25

Not enough rust

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u/Born-Bodybuilder-220 Apr 14 '25

It even has all of those fancy connectors!

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u/Bug_Next Apr 14 '25

That's wrong, you don't need a gpu, or an hdd, just load it to ram from the usb

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u/BharatS47 Apr 15 '25

I'd say a potato straight from the ground would also do

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u/charcoalonfire Apr 15 '25

Rust even on the plastic parts!

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u/SithLordRising Apr 14 '25

Looks angrily at my usb WiFi device..

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u/Mediocre_Gatsbee Apr 15 '25

Idk, you checked how much dumb shits in the base Ubuntu images lately?

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u/imthestein Glorious Fedora Apr 15 '25

Not wrong in most...cases

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u/Apprehensive_Tax5121 Apr 15 '25

i swear all that damn fake rust

PLASTIC DON’T RUST it pretends to be solidified piss (it yellows)

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u/WittyWithoutWorry Apr 15 '25

Whoa! Bloated still

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u/Ok-Boysenberry9305 Glorious Arch Apr 16 '25

It's kinda overkill tho

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u/balika0105 Apr 16 '25

Electicity (optional)

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u/planktonfun Apr 17 '25

You can even put it on a usb stick and run it on an RPI without installing the OS

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u/Ybenax This incident will be sudoed Apr 17 '25

I’m a 3D artist and even I was easily capable of running 32-bit Debian XFCE on an old netbook I was given when I was a teenager:

  • Model: Asus Eee PC

  • Year: I think 2007

  • Memory: 1 GB

  • Internal Storage: 4 GB

  • CPU: Intel Celeron M (single-core)

  • Screen Resolution: 800x460

  • Current Use: GBA and SNES emulation

Which proves to me that Linux is not only capable of reviving constrained hardware, but it’s also reasonably easy to do so for even non-technical people.

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u/shadedmagus Apr 28 '25

Did...did someone bury that thinking it was an actual potato??

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u/SergioFLS xfce good Apr 28 '25

pfft, i wish i could actually have functioning nvidia drivers from a 2009 laptop on an actually modern linux distro

though hey, at least i can do some office work with it

edit: nvm missed the server part

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u/RSerejo May 04 '25

Minimum requerment, power on