Nobody Wants These Computers... But I Do.
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Music (in order):
"Hardware Haven Theme" -Me (https://youtu.be/FwD2mOYDPNA)
"CRENSHAW VIBES" - GARRISON (https://soundcloud.com/garrison-brown)
"Sunshower" - LATASHÁ(https://soundcloud.com/best-music-pro...)
"If You Want To" - Me
"Fender Bender" - @badsnacks
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Timestamps:
0:00 I love repurposing e-waste
0:50 What the heck is a Chromebase
1:56 What can these (hopefully) do?
3:14 Countering ChromeOS
4:02 What did I buy?
5:50 My new favorite monitor (sponsor)
7:44 Powering on the Aopen Mini
8:52 Powering on the Acer CA24V
9:31 Tear-down and disabling write protection
10:11 Mystery M.2 Tangent
11:27 Home Dashboard/Calendar
14:19 Home Assistant Kiosk
16:19 Running HAOS as well
18:28 Desktop Usage
20:02 Can you salvage just the motherboard?
21:58 Making it look less bad
23:07 What's the point?
