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

  • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    1 个月前

    That is quite a rare type of usage. Those who need “thin client”, already have one (modern and actually thin), those who don’t – don’t have and don’t need, let alone some old Mac.

    • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      Nothing fancy at my end. Just Rustdesk to my i7 laptop from other rooms in the house using Debian as the client. Works pretty well even from away, so I only have to maintain one ‘good’ computer.

      • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        So you use a laptop to connect to a laptop and think that many people should too? :)

        That’s peculiar… yes.

        • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          1 个月前

          Well it saves the hassle of having to unplug the monitors, speakers etc, and it’s accessible from anywhere I go. The i7 laptop is used more as a desktop.

          I’m not saying others should - the point was that using a crappy computer is practical if it’s not having to do the heavy lifting.