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Figuring out what to do with an old Mac Mini (Base M1) Linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Luemen@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey everyone! I'm pretty glad to have come across Lemmy haha. I was going to start looking into doing some self hosting stuff on Reddit and a lot of people seemed a bit... Opinionated. That said, I have an old base M1 Mac Mini that has been sitting in my closet for a while, and while I do have a simple proxmox setup in my own house for a couple small things, I was considering a fun side project to try to host something for my mom in her house. My main question is has anyone actually tried doing any self hosting stuff on a 8GB model of a Mac Mini with M1? It seems that Asahi linux supports it pretty well, but its all ARM. I have basically no experience with ARM on linux, especially not on a box made by apple. I have very light experience with a Pi 5 but outside of that not much.

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[–] aihostbox@programming.dev 1 point 5 hours ago

ARM is a non-issue these days for the usual self-hosted stuff; most popular images ship arm64 builds (check the tags on Docker Hub before you commit to one). For a box at your mum's, I'd honestly consider staying on macOS + Docker or OrbStack rather than Asahi, purely because remote fixes are easier when the OS is the boring one. Add Tailscale so you can reach it without opening ports. 8 GB is plenty for things like a photo backup, an ad blocker, or a small search engine like SearXNG; it's tight only if you try to run local LLMs on it.

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