I have a PC that I purchased from my university surplus a while ago and updated to decent 2019 era specs. 32gig DDR3 ram, a terabyte of internal storage, and Intel Xeon E5-1650 processor. So its fine for doing CAD or whatever. I'm sure its plenty good for backing up photos and I would like to store my important documents on it. I haven't gamed much in years and the computer is just sitting neglected with its dual monitors and RGB mousepad.
It seams like I should be able to have my personal laptop set up like how they are at most jobs. Where I have a shared drive to work out of for both machines. Then storing everything on the tower and I can use my laptop in my living room for most of what I do at home.
Ideally I would like to set up my phone to integrate into this too. Ultimately getting a plex or jellyfin system set up to watch my repository of pirated movies on my TV.
Is there a nice unified way to do that in 2026? Or should I just map a network drive between my computers and keep manually backing up my phone and cleaning up space in the free 15 gigs on google drive?