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.comOPEnglish
    12·
    7 days 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

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      3·
      6 days 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.

    • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days 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.

    • hanke@feddit.nuEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      I second this. It’s great to have a scrappy laptop to test stuff out on.

      No risk, all of the reward.