Where did you move from?

A smart switch that turns off the power when the battery hits 80% and turns it on at 78%? Dunno if that would actually work.

It’ll probably work. Biggest issue will be recovery after power failure as laptops generally stay off.

Next most likely is CPU fan failure, exacerbated if CPU usage causes the fans to run high and nobody is there to blow the dust out.

Other than that I’ve had multiple laptops that run as servers over the years and generally they’re fine. Streaming audio for our community radio station, or shoved behind wall mounted TV’s for updateable PowerPoint displays.

In hot weather, a furdigan should be enough.

Righto :)

I was thinking of usb3 hard drives. No need for internal storage if using spinning rust.

On older laptops with optical drives you can sometimes replace the drive with a sata tray and add a second drive that way.

But yes, a server that looks like a server and can recover after power loss is useful.

A cheap laptop might also be worth considering? Built in UPS that way, and sometimes UPSes have a large standby power usage. Would support a couple of bus powered drives as well.

Main drawback is no recovery if the battery drains fully.

It’s probably left over from Christmas parties where it’s been cut up and put on plates to nibble on.

The search engine built into qbittorrent is good as well.

Express VPN is pretty good at not getting blocked but you pay a fair premium for their service.

Maybe use the image drive option in Reflect instead? It’s easy to restore the image later by booting from USB.

Otherwise I believe there’s a tool to change the uuid, but I’d be a bit nervous of having two near identical drives online in case the OS gets confused and puts some things in the wrong spot.

Is this Elton John’s Too Low For Zero cover?

Another approach is to use ddrescue instead of Clonezilla.

OK, so we just need to make a Firefox that runs inside Chrome :)