what my desktop computers need

2023-03-28

related:

2023-03-27-projects.gmi

one recent ultrabook

having a HiDPI touchscreen and a recent Intel CPU with an Iris Xe GPU, it better stay on Windows probably.

• an X11/Wayland console to WSL or msys
• a cozy shortcut to use mintty and stuff
• something to have the alu palmrests soak in the sweat
• maybe some neat keybindings to make up for lack of Home/End/PageUp/PageDown

a HP 14-dk0017nw that I've been given

• cleanup of cooling as a dire necessity
• thermal paste, a dire necessity too
• battery is dead
• BSD or Linux
• maybe fixing the left touchpad button that sticks out badly often

a HP 2510p

Core2Duo U7600, 1280x800

• i need my friend to help me with its touchbar so that I can have touchpad
• the friend will also give me a new cat-tongue TrackStick rubber
• and help me fix the loose hooks of the battery that make it lose power

a PowerMac G5

DP 2.0 GHz Early 2005

• i need to pack it up, sans HDDs and stuff, in its original box sometime when I'm there at parents' and send it to myself

Dell Latitude CPxH

Three of them: the displayless, the sentimental, and the most working one. The best keyboard stays in the latest of them, although was the Touch Stick working? Because maybe not after all.

• picking an OS. Windows 98, 2000, or OpenBSD.

the IGEL 3/2 thin client I've just got

presumably a VIA Eden CPU, 64MB RAM, and a CF adapter.

• getting an SD-CF adapter? or at least CF cards.
• Windows NT 4 on one card and Windows 98 on another

that Ideapad

gemini://g.mikf.pl/gemlog/2021-11-03--ideapad-s.gmi

did I ever try it properly with the new lenovo power adapter I got it? IIRC yes i did.

one newer thin client

OpenBSD on a pendrive for a server & wireguarding router

a HP t540 thin client

please stop beeping at me four times

gotta try reseating the SODIMMS like im told

Raspberry Pi 3 B

will be given away to someone who has a good use for it, playing with Tizen and stuff

Raspberry Pi 2

idk? maybe too? do i have a reasonable use for it?