While in Guanajuato 2025-2026, I relied on the Chromebook Linux server that I had set up last September. All worked fine from Mexico until it didn’t, but it turned out to be relatively simple to resolve remotely, fortunately. The biggest unresolved problem with the Chromebook setup was that it could not survive an unattended restart.
So I decided to convert the Chromebook into a pure Linux server. That was a simple process but involved opening the laptop to disable write protection on the firmware and rewriting said firmware. The fear of breaking something made a simple process somewhat stressful.
I chose to install the latest version of Linux Mint. With the help of Google search, I followed the instructions provided by the large Linux community to setup a LAMP environment with my personal applications.
Today I moved my blog from wordpress.com to this self-hosted server. All is working fine as far as I can tell, except that in the two migrations I have lost photos, which I will attempt to recover over time.