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.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    1 year ago

    Stable Diffusion is unlikely to run on a Laptop GPU due to memory constraints, but you can run some simpler CUDA stuff on it most likely.

    Otherwise it should work? What exactly do you have doubts about?

    Some laptops allow you to disable to closed lid detection in the bios. But it is nice to reach the power button anyways, so usually its better to keep the lid open. On an old laptop I just removed the broken screen all together and connect an external one when needed.

    • schmorp@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen that some people apparently got SD to work running on CPU only? Will see … I’d rather keep the lid closed, environment is too filthy for tech here. I will only start removing parts if nothing else works, it’s too flimsy for that kind of stuff.

        • schmorp@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Oh that’s a little disappointing because I was getting quite excited about AI art, but then also I don’t really want to run huge resources anymore just so I can play with stuff. Maybe for the best.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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’