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

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Oh, but now OP will be motivated to test all the lights browsers.

      Back when I did that, Midori was a clear winner in terms of usability. If you want to make the browser even lighter, you’ll start bumping into some pretty significant compromises. If you don’t use modern websites, you can actually get away with something like Netsurf or even Lynx.

    • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Should be ok to remote into a more powerful machine. That’s what I do with my oldies. That way the heavy lifting is handled elsewhere.

        • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

            • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
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              3 months 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.