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

  • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days 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.

    • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I doubt it even has H265 decoding support. I don’t see a viable media player there.

      • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I wrote media player but I meant media server. It could run Jellyfin and serve media to other devices on the network.

          • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 days ago

            I’m sure you’re right, there’s not enough CPU power to transcode on that old CPU, but I’d say it’s enough to stream some data. Hell, I’ve done it using an old Core2Duo Sony Vaio laptop…