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What can I do with an old laptop?
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I think self-hosted cloud is a vague statement, but I think with your network infrastructure you will be limited in what you can do. I think cloudflare tunnel could be a good option for getting the device available online.
Then the self-hosted part. There are so many things you can look into. You can run everything in Docker, install the software you want directly on your laptop, and much more.
You'll likely also need a reverse proxy. Can use nginx proxy manager, traefik, or something similar for that.
What are your goals with the self-hosted cloud? That would help you in making it easy to find resources and others here to give you advice.
Edit: typo's
I have about several dozen GB of files that I currently sync with Syncthing between my devices. The only downsides I can see is that it takes the same amount of space on all my devices and it's hard to add a new device to the group. I'd like to store the files on the laptop instead and be able to browse, access them from my other devices (mainly Linux and Android), ideally through the internet.
Exposing your internal devices to the internet is not suggested unless you know how to secure it behind a reverse proxy.
Switch to Resilio Sync, it has a sync-on-demand feature called Selective Sync, where you can browse the share and select files to sync now.
It's a feature of Resilio I really like, but I rely on Syncthing for daily use because Resilio kills phone memory (it stores the index in ram), and it's much more resource intensive on my file server.
Dozens of GB sounds like there's a lot of media files to me. I'd not share that via Syncthing. Assuming that is correct: Wouldn't a media server like Jellyfin be a better fit? Or if it's photos, I recommend Immich. Note that Immich is under active development and should not be your only place to store photos.
Yes, that's why I'm looking into alternatives. Could I use jellyfin with the limitations that I have?
I think that should be possible. You'll likely need to get Jellyfin running with that cloudflare tunnel. There are probably alternatives to cloudflare tunnel as well, but I'm not very familiar with it. I believe there are some limitations with the tunnel, so you will have to check that out. Otherwise there should be no issue.