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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

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

That's peculiar... yes.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago

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.