Welcome to P-Town. The house runs on an old laptop.

Welcome in. This whole house runs on one old laptop.

A 2017 gaming laptop runs the internet, the movies, the lights and the ad blocking. Here is everything it does.

See what's running

Who lives here

Nine services share the laptop, each in its own little apartment. Tap any of them to hear its story.

    Things to try tonight

    All of these work on the home Wi-Fi. Nothing to install, and nothing you do leaves the house.

    Alexa, turn on Movie Mode.

    The hall drops to 1% and the kitchen to 10%, ready for the film. It's one of fourteen scenes Alexa knows.

    Ads are already gone.

    Join the Wi-Fi and ads and trackers are blocked before they load, on your phone, your laptop and the TV. You don't have to do anything.

    Put a film on.

    The house has its own film and TV library. Open the Jellyfin app on the TV and ask us for a login.

    Shrink that PDF.

    There's a file tool for photos, PDFs, audio and video. Convert it to another format or make it smaller, in a couple of seconds. Ask us for the link.

    Long-term robustness over cleverness.

    The one rule this server is built on. Where there was a choice, the simpler and easier-to-fix option won, even when it was slower or less elegant.