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I recently came into a Macbook Pro, 18 GB of Ram, 1TB of storage. Its the only Mac thing I own. Its a real shame I have no idea what to do with this and it is just sitting there. I want to use it for something, but I dont know what. My homelab already has a huge host with a threadripper in it (which also fell into my hands), a pi-hole on a low end pi, and an old PC that runs a Minecraft server just fine. Any suggestions for what to do with this bad boy? I'm not afraid of any OS, all are welcome here. I tend to mostly host media and game servers, I do not have any home automation yet.

Edit: thank you everyone for the suggestions. I love this community <3

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

~~donate it to me~~

Jokes aside... If you don't use Mac stuff at all and don't mind bricking the computer, would you be interested in trying out Asahi Linux for science?

I'm not familiar with the project at all so I'm not sure how it works, but it might be cool to try. The lead developer had some personal issues recently but is otherwise quite active on Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If I do nothing else at all with it I will consider this. Its better the body goes to science than do nothing.

[–] naught 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it's actually remarkably easy to install and remove if you dont want it. Last time I used asahi it was cool but not ready for daily use. The m3 is a powerful little chip. I'd use that machine as my daily driver laptop whenever I needed it. Can do coding, music stuff, video editing, etc. I can do all that on my m1 pro, even!

alternatively, sit at a coffee shop, put a mech keyboard on top, and type a pretentious manuscript hoping someone will notice how cool u r (:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I honestly feel like a raccoon that has somehow wandered into a five star hotel suite every time I am on this. Most of my machines are 8+ years old except for one other.