rockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down19
arrow-up1362arrow-down1imageAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldrockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square154fedilink
minus-squareLiamSora@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFor 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.
minus-squarePhoephus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt also has 2 Ethernet ports so it can double triple as a cheese grater. :D
minus-squareutopianfiat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOld macs are particularly useful as build servers- it’s not straightforward to get a fully featured OSX vm to build and test on.
minus-squareRoyalEngineering@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah it’s really difficult to get Mac OS virtualized… I don’t know why, but my VMs always slow down after about 15 minutes and are unusable.
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.
It also has 2 Ethernet ports so it can
doubletriple as a cheese grater. :DOld macs are particularly useful as build servers- it’s not straightforward to get a fully featured OSX vm to build and test on.
Yeah it’s really difficult to get Mac OS virtualized… I don’t know why, but my VMs always slow down after about 15 minutes and are unusable.