MSI’s older laptops have notoriously terrible build quality, but one victim didn’t end up discarding the hardware after the display was separated from the assembly. Instead, the owner decided to pursue extreme resourcefulness and repurposed the bare motherboard with RAM and storage to make a server that controls his lights, AC, and more. By wall mounting the MSI motherboard and enabling “Wake on Power,” the repurposed server automatically switches on to maintain connectivity The inventive setup was shared on the r/homelab community by user “u/noobakw,” who notes that his MSI notebook’s display was physically hanging on by a thread, so instead of […]
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