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For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking down silicon transistors and packing more of them on each chip. But shrinking transistors comes with its own problems: controlling electron flow becomes harder, which exacerbates problems such as leakage, power loss and heat.

If you’ve got an old laptop or desktop PC lying around and collecting dust, especially if it’s fewer than ten years old, you can easily breathe new life into it by turning it into a media server. The process is far easier than you may assume. In the span of an afternoon, you can have…