Anyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol

3 years ago by rockhandle to c/selfhosted

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LiamSora 6 points 3 years ago

For a while I was using a 10 year old Mac Pro G5 as a home server. Conveniently it also doubled as a space heater in the winter.

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utopianfiat 4 points 3 years ago

Old macs are particularly useful as build servers- it's not straightforward to get a fully featured OSX vm to build and test on.

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RoyalEngineering 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah itโ€™s really difficult to get Mac OS virtualizedโ€ฆ I donโ€™t know why, but my VMs always slow down after about 15 minutes and are unusable.

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Phoephus 2 points 3 years ago

It also has 2 Ethernet ports so it can double triple as a cheese grater. :D

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