I took the screen off my old dell laptop and turned it into a mini blade server with built in UPS. It ran for years. I have no doubt the battery was knackered by the end.

The only reason I replaced it with a Mac Mini 2012 was because it didn’t support usb3 and 4K video saturated the usb bandwidth.

Now my 2012 runs Ubuntu server + docker for those interested :)

How does the update function work?

I open the web app from my Home Screen, see a notification for an update in settings. Tap update. Takes me back to main page with notification gone.

What exactly is it updating if it’s a web app?

Sort of? https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps/use-cases/rdp/ - I have no idea how to do it though.

I’ve had SSH and VNC sessions rendered in web pages with tunnels, but never RDP.

I would prefer to use TailScale (www.tailscale.com) for something like RDP though, much easier to configure / set up and again you’re hiding behind their infrastructure.

Cloudflare tunnels is the way to go for small self hosted content. You’re hiding behind their ddos protection and your IP / location remains hidden from end users.

I didn’t think this would be the feature I’d miss the most, but “share as image” for a comment with “include original post” was a fast and convenient way for me to share comments with context to friends.

Is there somewhere I can see my upvoted posts? I miss that feature from Apollo

You could do the VPN / VPS option with a reverse proxy like nginx proxy manager. Or, you could use Cloudflare tunnels. Worth noting that from a privacy perspective you’d be putting a lot of trust in Cloudflare. The same is also true for whoever you pick as your VPS provider