Dell Wyse 3040 $35 OBO

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I offered $25 each for 2 of these Wyse 3040s. And it was accepted. They include the power supply.

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what are you doing with them? not exactly much resources avail
 
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Picked up two at $25 each. This is well into 'cheaper than a Raspberry Pi' territory. I will probably throw Daphile on them and make them cheap music streamers.
 
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Im assuming guys using these aren't running a hypvervisor at home already? Seems silly to have such a low power, dedicated unit that is severely limited on what it can do... but obviously 5x cheaper and 2-3x smaller than a SuperMicro 2558 build... so don't take my comments as being negative, I'm learning what ultra-low-power things you can run on them :)


If anyone else wants to share what they plan to run i'm really curious !!! share !! :D
 
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Yeah, they're not powerful, but more than powerful enough to sling bits around...

On our last 5+ hour road trip to see my folks, I had one of these with a 2TB portable drive running a Plex server plus a travel WAP in our van....then direct-streamed to the tablet we have mounted in the back seat for the kids (they're not quite old enough to handle the whole Plex UI just yet, but my oldest is getting close). Way easier than trying to sync content from Plex to the tablet's SD card for offline viewing.

Oh, and I found a 12V UPS on Amazon that I used with a 12v->5v regulator to power it and the WAP, so it didn't get abruptly shut off when we stopped for lunch or whatnot.
 
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The best way I could see to use these is as thin clients where you want a computer, but don't. You can simply remote into a VM running somewhere else and have a full blown experience. Kinda like they were originally meant for. ;)
 
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Samir said:
The best way I could see to use these is as thin clients where you want a computer, but don't. You can simply remote into a VM running somewhere else and have a full blown experience. Kinda like they were originally meant for. ;)
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Yeah, I did that a few years ago.. cool novelty w\out a real purpose (for me) lol
I ended up going with the SFF \ mini-PCs and have really enjoyed those. (Again 5x cost of these, ha, but still relatively cheap for a whole pc)
 
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These computers fit very well applications where Raspbery Pi could be used. You wouldn't use RPi to run a huge storage sever with 10G network interfaces (unless you do it for lolz), but they work very well in various home automation projects, or other tasks with small demands for computational power. This computer is a perfect candidate for an octopi or klipper host for your printer, I use Atomic Pi with an identical CPU to run LinuxCNC to control a small mill.
The best part: it can be cheaper than any of the popular ARM-based boards, especially if you can negotiate the price down when buying multiple units.
 
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piranha32 said:
These computers fit very well applications where Raspbery Pi could be used. You wouldn't use RPi to run a huge storage sever with 10G network interfaces (unless you do it for lolz), but they work very well in various home automation projects, or other tasks with small demands for computational power. This computer is a perfect candidate for an octopi or klipper host for your printer, I use Atomic Pi with an identical CPU to run LinuxCNC to control a small mill.
The best part: it can be cheaper than any of the popular ARM-based boards, especially if you can negotiate the price down when buying multiple units.
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Very cool linuxcnc usage! I have a mill with DROs I'd be interested in looking into that more! Did you "DIY" the entire thing, or buy a kit that's based on linuxCNC?
 
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