americans have it rough 😭😭 i’m in south africa and the most expensive braids i’ve ever gotten here were like $40 your money

hey 🫶🏾

…all of them?

i had to go into my recovery to add a file to /system because you can’t even mount /system as rw in userland any more. because of woke

first, type in random commands that ChatGPT tells you to type into your server

let’s fix that! Android is basically just Linux, it can’t be that hard, right?

immediately putting ubuntu server on this because it is going to be a plex server, and we don’t need (nor do we want) Windows for any of that

it is also remarkably quiet at idle. i literally cannot hear this thing unless i put my ear on it.

it has Windows 11 Pro on it, which is.. surprising.

this particular OptiPlex was also not configured with Wi-Fi. great

enough foreplay, let’s turn it on already!

it has a 290W power supply, which is… not a lot (but more than enough for what this nugget will be used for)

it also seems to be a proprietary one, not a regular ATX one. thanks, Dell

inside its drive cage, there is a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO

this is entirely too small for what this computer will be used for, but hard drives will be purchased At Some Point™

it is shockingly clean in here

this is a Dell OptiPlex 7020. i bought it from my work for next to nothing because i want a home server. at this point, i know very little about it other than the fact that it has 12GB of RAM and an i5-4690 inside it. let’s crack her open, shall we?

Drake can’t catch a break and i am here for it