I daily drove a laptop with 8gb of RAM less than a year ago. Works just fine for most tasks. Granted, at Apples typical price point, I’d want more than that, but it is far from unusable. Running VMs wasn’t fun though.

I started out self hosting on a laptop maybe a little newer than yours. Pentium, 2gb RAM. I’m happier with my pi, but it’s more than enough to get started on. Pretty sure pi-hole will run no problem, the others my struggle a little bit depending on your disk speed.

Your cpu will be a pretty limiting factor, but upgrading the RAM and putting in an SSD could boost the performance quite a bit.

RCS delivers in areas with decent service. SMS/MMS doesn’t reliably anywhere

Yes. Once a Win10 troubleshooter solved a backwards-compatibility problem with an old XP game.

Why can’t we live in this world?

Angry German heretics are pretty scary

Do you know where Tennessee is?

Google Franciscans

As soon as someone makes a Lemmy client with really solid client side filtering, this platform will become almost usable.

That is probably an imposter