@elettrona with an old laptop I started my #homelab career :-)

Before I was playing around with self hosting on a raspberry pi. But at that time, it was not powerful enough for hosting gitea (now #forgejo) on docker. I used it for hosting paperless-ngx, forgejo-runners, nextcloud and a Minecraft server for my nephew. Actually it was still running until this week!

When I'm on a trip, I''m using an old Macbook Air (2013) for mails, internet and some programming. It runs smoothly with Manjaro and Kde plasma. For WiFi I bought a WiFi Dongle.

@elettrona I'm running Linux mint on an old 2010 macbook pro. You can always try running it off a live USB, which is slow, but will let you test if things work.

@elettrona If USB works from Linux, you might be able to use a Linux compatible wifi or ethernet adapter.

@elettrona I know that the Debian USB install boot disk has the screenreader enabled by default. Also, the default Debian install has the screenreader enabled by default also. I'm not sure the Braille display will initially work, but if you can use the screenreader to install Debian, you may be able to configure the Braille display also using the screenreader.