• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I’ve got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it’s got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it’s my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it’s what I turn to.

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      1 month ago

      Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.

      I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.

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        1 month ago

        Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.