Okay so I found this old MacBook (I mean OLD, it even has a hot-swappable battery and an optical drive) and I have no idea if it’s even worth the effort of installing anything on it. What do you guys think I could do with it?

Edit: note that this is just from a live usb, it has 120GB storage

  • guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    1 day ago

    Hmm, that’s a good idea, I have a homelab setup with my jellyfin server on it, but I don’t actually have a computer I can just mess around with and “ruin” the OS

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      11 hours ago

      perfect machine to experiment with lightweight self-hosted services like pihole, wireguard vpn, or even a simple audiobookshelf server that you can acess from your jellyfin network.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
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      11 hours ago

      If it doesn’t already, upgrade it to a cheap SSD. You can get them as cheap as $10 brand new nowadays for 128GB. You’ll increase the boot time and make the future plans much better.

    • hanke@feddit.nu
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      I second this. It’s great to have a scrappy laptop to test stuff out on.

      No risk, all of the reward.