macbook air 11 mid 2012 with sonoma and restore another mac

hey yall! i have a mac mini m4 that i need to restore via this instruction https://support.apple.com/en-us/108900 so the only requirement for the other mac is to be macOS Sonoma 14 or later: "Another Mac of any model using macOS Sonoma 14 or later. You will use this Mac to revive or restore the affected Mac. Find out which macOS your Mac is using." i dont have another mac with me and neither, i believe, anyone that i know (nor the local repair guys) have compatible mac (i mean mac that would support sonoma on its own). so i deciding to buy a macbook air 11 mid 2012 (cuz its cheap) and oclp it to sonoma and then restore my mac mini. what do yall think about it? will it work? anyone did this? share your story. thanks for reading