Yes and the answer is you can’t do it in anyway that’s fool proof that won’t eventually result in data loss. Just buy another one and be done with it.

Mount it on a spare PC and share it on the network with samba.

I would be careful if they wanna use zfs though. Fedora can be a bit quick on the kernels meaning a kernel can come out that isn’t supported by zfs. This causes zfs to fail to build the kernel module on the new kernel and so you lose zfs on the next boot.

Almost happened to me tracking debian testing a while back.

Shhh don’t say anything too loud or they will see your awake and come for you.

They have an ansible script in the docs to set up your own instance. It won’t work 100% with debian 12 but you can get around it by reading the docs for the commands that fail. I have no idea how ansible works but it’s pretty easy to follow the instructions.

You do have to get a domain first though so pick something your gonna like because you can’t change it later.

Think I replied to the wrong comment:/

But obviously no. It’s so you can create your own community with your own rules etc .

I am not important enough to have my own community following but I assume someone will have a use for it

Takes about 10 mins to set up your own IRC server

I feel like this article was farted out by AI and just barely checked by the intern before posting.