I’ve been thinking about this old desktop machine under my desk that hasn’t been used in years. I’m thinking the death of the desktop computer is not too far ahead for me. I can’t see myself buying another in my lifetime and my building days ended in the mid 90s. I don’t really have a need for this thing at all, I don’t game, I’m pretty much off the internet already. Ageing out of all of it I suppose.
My question is, as a bit of a weekend hobby, is it feasible for a bit of an ordinary Joe, middle/a little older aged, to go from a life in MS and never having to run a server or hosting anything, to follow something like this to any meaningful outcome? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320
I write a bit of vba, do a fair bit of querying to a database someone else maintains for a living. (SQL). Again, never much but basic tables and queries/procedures.
The desktop currently is: OS: windows 10 home Processor: Intel i7-6700k @ 4GHz Graphics: GTX970 Ram: 16gb
Kidding myself? Obviously I’m thinking Linux and learning a new OS to some extent would in theory be in the mix.
Other than power draw of that computer and staring at computers in your free time, why not?
If this guide seems too focussed *solely *on consumption, you could always learn how to install Postgres from remote and create a roguelike as procedures in the database, so you can game again, through the miracle of endless random number generation. You could proceed to manage those scripts in git, which you also could self-host on this machine.