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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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[–] fiddlestix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Docker makes it easy to set up and remove apps. Simply (a) create folder, (b) download/copy-paste the docker-compose template into the folder, (c) run 'docker-compose up -d' and watch the magic happen. And if you want to remove the image just do a 'docker-compose down' followed by 'docker system prune -a' and poof, it's gone (although this command will remove any docker container that's not running, so be careful! (Otherwise remove manually with 'docker ps' and then 'rm name-of-container'). I'm in a similar boat to you and my L2 now runs Plex (media), Immich (photos), Mealie (recipes), Kavita (books), OwnCloud (files), PaperlessNgx (important documents) and Joplin (notes). It also runs Nginx Proxy Manager so I can access some of these apps outside my network (you can grab free domains from duckdns.org), and the others I access via Tailscale for extra security (highly recommend looking it up). Enjoy your journey. It gets very addictive!