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
      9·
      6 months 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

      • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months 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.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I see a very decent media player, maybe a PiHole, or you can add some USB storage and have a nice backup server.

    Just because it won’t run a browser it doesn’t mean it should be thrown away.

  • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I’m running klipper for my Ender 3 with almost that exact same config on a 2008 STI IS1415. It also manages to run i3 with qutebrowser without a hiccup. Compared to the Pi 3B+ I had before, I get a keyboard and screen to control the printer without running to my desktop on the other room, and the integrated wifi is actually pretty decent, it even shows the camera feed smoothly.

  • whosepoopisonmybutt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I don’t know anything about Mac hardware, but if it’s possible to put another 2gb of RAM in there and an SSD, it should be fine for web browsing.

    I did something similar for a friend. I spent about $25 on hardware to put equivalent upgrades in an old laptop that had a single core celeron processor. I installed linux mint xfce. It ran firefox fine but couldn’t quite play smooth video on YouTube. It was otherwise usable. A dual core should be workable.

  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    Since you have already asked this question, you have no use of it. You had better sell it to someone who can make better use of it.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Moc, castero, pluma/texworks, and radion.sh (look it up).

    Great machine for word processing.

    Add in mednafen, tweak some configs, and enjoy classic emulated games.

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Looks like you are kind of limited because of the resolution. I mean, if you are downloading pictures of big black titties, on such low resolution, you can really only see the left titty or the right titty. You need more pixels if you want to see them both, at the same time. Highly recommend you upgrade to 4k resolution.

  • zloubida@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I’d love to have something like that (with a new battery); I’d install a headless Debian and live in the TTYs. Just like a numeric typewriter.