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Advice around setting up two laptops, one as server (self.selfhosting)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by schmorpel to c/selfhosting

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So I have two laptops. Both run Linux Mint.

I need Laptop 1 to work with.

Laptop 2 is an unrepairable POS that starts having a little trouble with keyboard and hinges but works nicely otherwise and has a nice large 1TB disc and a GPU. I want to bury L2 in a shelf(*) and save videos and music on it to access from L1.

I would also like to play with Stable Diffusion on L2, accessing it from L1. Can I do that?

Edit: At some point I want to have my website served from L2 as well but I guess that can be a future project.

(*) Bonus points for ideas about how to have L2 do other useful things when I don't use it and install it as grow tent heating instead of just have it sit in a corner.

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[–] poVoq 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stable Diffusion is unlikely to run on a Laptop GPU due to memory constraints, but you can run some simpler CUDA stuff on it most likely.

Otherwise it should work? What exactly do you have doubts about?

Some laptops allow you to disable to closed lid detection in the bios. But it is nice to reach the power button anyways, so usually its better to keep the lid open. On an old laptop I just removed the broken screen all together and connect an external one when needed.

[–] schmorpel 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen that some people apparently got SD to work running on CPU only? Will see ... I'd rather keep the lid closed, environment is too filthy for tech here. I will only start removing parts if nothing else works, it's too flimsy for that kind of stuff.

[–] poVoq 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On CPU it is way too slow. Not worth it.

[–] schmorpel 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's a little disappointing because I was getting quite excited about AI art, but then also I don't really want to run huge resources anymore just so I can play with stuff. Maybe for the best.