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.
I’m just beginning to understand the many exciting possibilities of ‘L2 hidden in a shelf but accessible’ aka self-hosting. Thanks people I’m really pleased! About a year and a half ago I was a (forced by work) (constantly swearing) Windows-only user. Then I managed to install a Linux-Windows double boot, but was still afraid of meddling with server things. Understanding how to use SSH wasn’t really as intimidating as I thought.
My even more luddite than me bf was horrified by the way. ‘It stays on all the time???’ ‘It’s like a small heater that heats the room’ didn’t really sell the idea to him. I’ll try next with ‘like a firewood shed, only for movies instead of firewood, but the door is broken so we have to use teleportation magic to watch the movies’