this rings eerily familiar; one of my servers (from before i got my hands on actual servers) is ancient HP laptop which was already the lowest of the low end when i got it 12 years ago. i still have yet to get around to moving the last few tiny things off of it, so it’s just sitting there chugging along (with no fan) running a version of Ubuntu Server which stopped getting updates a few years ago. still works though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯