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i wonder if i can put my old laptop into any use and maybe use it as a shitbox for hosting stuff


though the most contact i had with hosting anything was with VPS services and i never did anything on actual hardware


can someone help me out and ELI5 if/how can i set up something on there? (nothing huge, maybe a static website or a single user fedi instance on something light)


it's some random budget HP laptop which model i don't remember anymore. has integrated gpu, an amd athlon silver gpu, with (apparently) 16 gigs of ram. that thing isn't useful for gaming because of the specs, and i can't use it as a windows art station since the colors on the screen are a crime against humanity (the screen itself is of abysmal quality, nothing i can do). i guess lack of ethernet access may be an obstacle? i havent heard of doing networking over wifi but also i have a life and don't touch computers much
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 Mizukon @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@goog wifi is no obstacle, what is somewhat of an obstacle however is whether you have a public ipv4 or not
otherwise it's perfectly capable of stuff
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@jeder

asking jo and ill need their hand in it anyways because apparently theres a password only they have and (understandably) they dont wanna give it out


but hey at least good to know this shittop is still usable
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 Mizukon @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@goog tbh you could also go with cloudflare tunnels or whatever they are called (disclaimer I never used it) and you wouldn't need to fiddle with your network at all
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