You could turn it into an external hd or install it in new laptop (assuming you have an extra bay).

Exactly - as long as the instance isnt defederated, you should be able to post/comment/upvote/mod in communities that are outside of your home instance.

You are correct about the mod part. I’m a mod on a community outside of lemmy.world. Haven’t noticed any missing features.

I’m surprised he hadn’t said the quiet part out loud yet in another AMA.

Fanny_B already set up a game bot for the baseball communities. If you run any other sports maybe check to see if he could help you out!

Is there a way to ensure it only posts links and not OC?