Raw LLM Responses

Currently refurbishing ~40 computers from my work from their windows 10 clean out. Bunch of 5th gen i5 NUCs and a few Lenovo laptops. The NUCs surprisingly have GPIO and I2C pins, so I’m putting a NUC in each room of my house to be a room hub for smart home automation. Gonna have temp/rh sensors, a webcam, and they’ll be the Kodi boxes for rooms with TVs. The laptops are gonna be trickier. Since they can’t run W11, I can’t just go offer them for kids to use as school laptops(won’t curse families with a kid+linux combo). Haven’t tested them all, but the couple I have hold a charge and run fine. Then there’s a couple of 7th gen i5 NUCs and some mystery desktops with windows 8 stickers on the chassis’s so…we’ll see on those. I even use a Sony VAIO laptop I bought in 2009 as a camera controller for my grow tent that broadcasts an RTSP stream from a Chinese GoPro connected to a Elgato camlink that’s connected to a USB 3.0 PCI ExpressCard. Sure, on a $/hz scale they’re probably terrible. But now I’m shopping DDR3 SODIMMS and it feels like computer part shopping used to feel. A ram upgrade for $50 here, a CPU upgrade for $40 there. I love it and am happy to take on old hardware and find a use for it. Old hardware