Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop - eviltoast

Due to unfortunate circumstances (me dropping the laptop) I have now ended up with a half broken laptop that has a broken screen and a dying battery. I could repair it, however, I don’t wanna bother as I’m very likely gonna be getting a new one soon.

The laptop itself still works fine, however the broken screen and dying battery make it pretty much useless as a laptop and I already have a home lab NAS thing, so I’m kinda out of ideas on what to do with it. Any ideas?

Here are the specs:

CPU: i5-8300h

GPU: intel HD830/GTX1050ti

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 128GB SSD

  • retrieval4558@mander.xyzEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I usually just harvest usable parts like the hard drive and camera and call it a day.

    Alternatively, if you’re able to plug an external monitor in and get it to work for setup, you could install some sort of Linux distro on it and run it headless for lots of different purposes.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Camera?

      Like a Webcam camera? What’s the use case? Can you map the pins to a SPC like a raspi or ardrino?

      • retrieval4558@mander.xyzEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yeah it’s relatively easy to reuse most webcam cameras, you just have to get them connected to a USB cable, then most computers will immediately recognize them as cameras.