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I have an Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop that is currently not being used. Would that be good? Overkill? Under powered?

I use Debian for my main distro for my personal laptop. Would that be good? Should I have stable or a rolling release?

Is there anything special that I need to do on my home network setup? Create a DMZ perhaps?

This is my first self hosted project, so any information or advice is appreciated.

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[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
  1. The laptop is super overkill for just misskey.

  2. Debian is good.

  3. Do you want it to be accessible through a public domain? If so, how - there are many options, like cloudflare tunnels or dyndns.

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a lighter laptop that I could repurpose. It's an ASUS with a celeron processor and 8GB of RAM.

I would like it to be accessible. I don't like Cloudflare. I need to check dyndns and learn more about it.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

First you need to check if your ISP gives you a public IP (can be temporary, if you are fine with using dyndns). Otherwise you will need some tunneling service or run such yourself from a VPS.

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'll have to look into that. I'm lucky to live in an area with a municipal utility co-op.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I was reading the instructions for installation on the official misskey web site.

Is there a better fork?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

https://joinsharkey.org/ seems to be the only one that survived so far.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ask in the Sharkey Discord (sorry that's the only place they are) if any better forks have arisen than Sharkey yet. They'll be frank

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

I thought iceshrimp has arisen from the ashes of firefish.

I swear the misskey fork lore must be hundreds of pages long by now.