• LiveLM
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    2 months ago

    You avoid buying them precisely because of this.

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      2 months ago

      I figured as much. These are things that were given to me as an “otherwise it goes in the landfill” package deal. a couple have klipper over dietpi for my 3d printers but the rest are seemigly junk and I’ll probbaly toss them in the electronics section at the recycle depot next time I go there

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        2 months ago

        otherwise it goes in the landfill

        Ah, well in that case, fair enough.
        I’ve done my fair share of ridiculousness to keep free crappy hardware running.
        I will say, try running Alpine Linux on a container.

        I’ve managed to extract some usefulness out of a borderline e-waste Android tablet running some flavor of Jelly Bean, so outdated you couldn’t connect to most websites due to bad TLS certs, by running a Alpine Container on it.
        Alpine was the only distro I found that could run up-to-date software on such a ancient version of the Linux kernel, everything else failed to work at all.