I’m voting for the party for socialism and liberation and you can too.

You don’t need to vote green to cast a third party ballot.

If you want to run a service in a container for security purposes and it doesn’t need to use the gpu, you can just use any container management software to run it.

Then your “whole pc” is the private part that only you have access to and the stuff in the container is the “public” part.

If the service needs to use the gpu then it might be worthwhile to run it in a vm with gpu passthrough.

No matter what though, you need to say what you’re trying to do. Like exactly what you’re trying to do. Like what specific software packages you’re trying to run and how you want the “anonymous” and “public” sections to be different.

It almost sounds like you wanna run a stable diffusion setup with two different model sets so an authenticated user can make pictures of Donald trumps head on Christina Hendricks body but public users can only do normal generic stuff.

Someone already said the firewall, and that’s the most straightforward answer, but there’s lots of stuff a server can be used for and most of those have some facility for making a distinction between unauthenticated users and authenticated ones. So as a second recommendation: use the permissions system.

What are you actually trying to do?

I’ve never seen a smps catch fire. Is that a failure state for them?

Some more things I’ve used old netbooks for:

Portable pxe boot server

Audio source for mixing (think using a mixing board to do audio collage work with tape, record and digital sources)

Midi sequencer- the cheap usb to midi breakout cable works good here and you really don’t need much horsepower to sequence midi.

Tracker playback and editing

Display driver/art/digital photo collage/digital signage/whatever.

E: People will tell you that you’re better off with a sbc because it’ll save you money on power. Do your own research on this. A kill-a-watt is cheap and the power savings quickly gets murky.

The c2d MacBooks ought to have relatively cheap and available batteries. Why not put one in?

gotta start somewhere. i’m not really interested in trump or what makes him happy.

There’s lots of uses for it.

An overlay network like nebula uses “lighthouse” nodes as ways to reverse proxy to all the other hosts in the overlay. I’ve used og eeepcs as nebula lighthouses before.

“Dumb” 3d printers honestly don’t need much to bring their feature set in line with expensive ones. I still use an old netbook to control two. The screen and keyboard are great when I want to check files. Slicers and whatnot can easily run in low resource settings on those computers.

Vents allowing (and many netbooks do!), you can slide the computer into a shelf and use ssh to perform tasks on it. There’s a bunch of stuff that an always on computer with a built in battery backup can be used for at times, especially if it’s on a wired connection and you can use the wireless interface.

People will say you should be afraid of the batteries exploding or venting. I’m honestly not too concerned, but be sure to check them maybe once or twice a year.

I’m bloodfart and I’m voting third party this election!

The party for socialism and liberation is running on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to weapons shipments for Israel.

There’s a bunch of dot files and directories in your home directory that are used to store configurations and presets and stuff.

It used to be that if you logged in without those files and directories then x, the display manager, the other software etc would copy over stub versions and that’s how you get “defaults”.

So when I have a hairy x session I used to delete the configuration files and directories and let it repopulate with defaults.

Nowadays I don’t do that anymore, but it used to be an issue.

E: try ctrl alt f1 or two or something and see if you get a terminal or login prompt.

You can always just delete you user config directories, uninstall Xfce then log back in snd see what happens…

Oh I don’t care what distro you use. It’s just funny to say numbnuts instead of numbat.

old windows -> xfce/lxqt/whatever

nuwindows -> kde

macos/phones -> gnome

you’re running xfce!

do you want to be running some other desktop environment?

if so, look at what kind of session your remote connection software is asking the remote machine to start.

ubuntu numbnuts

lol, lmao.

I don’t understand what you mean here.

I’m planning on voting for the party for socialism and liberation in November and you can too!

They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to Israel.

Stop trying to make him sound cool.

amber is the color of its energy!