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What can I do with an old laptop? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by driveway@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have an old laptop lying around and I have been meaning to self host some stuff on it but never got around to it.

My biggest limitation is that I only have WIFI and I do not control the network. It's basically your default residential WIFI network.

The only thing I actually need is self-hosted cloud. What can I utilize this laptop for?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

When you say WiFi to you mean that you only have WiFi access or does the labtop not have a Ethernet port? If you have a wired connection I would get either a thunderbolt or usb3 adapter to hardwire it as a hardwired connection will be more stable even on USB speeds.

The OS will depend on what you want to host. If its a older system with less than 8 GB of ram I would just install Debian with docker. You can find premade docker compose files online which should make deploying software easy.

If you have plenty of hardware you could install Proxmox and then a few VMs.

Edit2:

Actually I take back what I said, don't use Kubesail. I went back and tried it and it has a lot of issues. If you want remote access consider a VPN or remote vm

[–] logir@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What are the advantages of kubesail? I couldn't understand it form their website

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Never mind, I actually am taking back what I said.

[–] logir@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I ended up trying it. In theory it's all nice and useful, because it solves the part that I am not comfortable with (router settings, domains and other connection stuff). But then I don't know Kubernetes so I couldn't understand what I was doing and I was not able to troubleshoot it. And I could not connect to my server remotely anyway.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

And that's the reason I am taking back what I said. At the end of the day wireguard is your friend.