i have an old ass inspiron laptop that i wanted to try turning into a debian server for cloud storage and a fluxer server. i have never self hosted anything before. it's specs aren't great (e.g., 6gb ram) but it has a 1tb hdd which is why i wanna use it for storage.
there's something wrong with its battery, it turns on but it isn't holding a charge. not sure if it's worth buying a replacement.
i have another laptop that i use for gaming. i don't game as much as i used to. it's got way better specs (16gb ram, etc) but only 256 or 500gb storage i can't remember. i reckon it'd be better to host fluxer on this (and probably a matrix server alongside it too, maybe a masto instance also) but idk if i wanna sacrifice storage space.
is this how people end up running a crap ton of computers for different purposes.... 