Old Laptop Homelab Officially Dead
Finally the day has come. My old Sony VIAO Laptop which I used to run couple of containers, Jellyfin Stack for 1.5 months is officially dead. It was running fine so far but when I tried to access it today at 8 PM it’s completely dead (It worked when I last checked at 6:45PM Today).
As far as I can see, the hard drive works and all files are intact. However, I believe the old hardware and heat abuse caught up and blew up the power supply to the motherboard.
Sad day indeed. Just started to learn Linux and stuffs and this happens.
Since I’m a student I can’t really afford enterpirse grade equipment. Does someone know how to continue this setup using an old server or Ras-pi probably within a budget of 5k?
Posted Jul 10, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC
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