@rockhandle to SelfhostedEnglish • 1 year agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lolimagemessage-square188arrow-up11.07Karrow-down118
arrow-up11.05Karrow-down1imageAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol@rockhandle to SelfhostedEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square188
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•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-square@utopianfiatlinkEnglish4•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-square@RoyalEngineeringlinkEnglish2•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.
minus-square@PhoephuslinkEnglish2•1 year agoIt also has 2 Ethernet ports so it can double triple as a cheese grater. :D
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.
Old 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.
It also has 2 Ethernet ports so it can
doubletriple as a cheese grater. :D