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
Try installing Debian or Opensuse MicroOS without a Desktop Environment, that way you can save some memory and disk space. You can run cockpit if you want to control it through another machine. Useful if the keyboard or display isn’t working.
You can use it for learning about self-hosting like setting up podman/docker or installing firewall etc. You can even run a simple pihole DNS server.