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Is This A Good GPU Sag Bracket?
Hardware Android
16 days ago 54.6M views 0 shares
Is This A Good GPU Sag Bracket?
When your old smartphones have finally found their true purpose in life: structural engineering. Someone's propping up their beefy GPU with a stack of what looks like ancient iPhones or Android devices, and honestly? It's both horrifying and genius at the same time. Modern GPUs are so thicc they need support brackets to prevent sagging, but why spend $30 on a proper bracket when you've got a drawer full of obsolete tech? Those phones survived the smartphone wars, countless OS updates, and probably a few drops on concrete—they can handle holding up your RTX card. Plus, they're already used to running hot and throttling under load, so they'll feel right at home next to that GPU. The real question is: are those phones still more powerful than the integrated graphics they're supporting?

From Junkyard To Server 💪
Linux Hardware Devops Programming
1 year ago 509.0K views 1 shares
From Junkyard To Server 💪
That rusted, half-dead computer case is apparently all you need to run Linux. While Windows demands 16GB RAM and a quantum processor just to open a text file, Linux will happily boot on whatever archaeological artifact you've dug up from behind the shed. I've seen production servers running on hardware that belongs in the Smithsonian. That box probably outperforms half the cloud instances people are paying $50/month for. Just slap some Debian on it, SSH in from another continent, and watch it run for 7 years without rebooting.