using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025 setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?
i’ve used thin clients at home for quite a while - both for their intended use (remotely accessing a desktop of another system); and in the sense of “modern thin clients are x86 boxes that are wildly overpowered for what they run, so they make good mini servers.”
recently, i saw a bulk lot of Sun Ray thin clients pop up on Trade Me (NZ’s eBay-like auction site) - and with very little idea of how many clients were actually included in this lot, i jumped on it. after a 9 hour round-trip drive (on some of the worst roads i’ve seen!), i returned home with the back of my car completely packed with Sun Rays. time for some interesting shenanigans!
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cataloguing the haul
when picking all of these up from the seller, i had guesstimated there was maybe 30 clients in total. turns out i was off by quite a bit.
i ended up bringing home:
12x Sun Ray 2
12x Sun Ray 2FS
11x Sun Ray 3
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