Can you run pixelfed without federation?

The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

Really old laptops have PCMCIA slots too that you can hook into newer interfaces. I used a PCMCIA eSATA card for a laptop NAS!

Old macs are particularly useful as build servers- it’s not straightforward to get a fully featured OSX vm to build and test on.

How often do you have to bounce the host? / Are you using Docker?

I run like half of this stuff on an RPi and I think it’s a bad idea but it’s my bad idea dammit.