rockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1290
arrow-up1290imageAnyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lollemmy.worldrockhandle@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squareLiamSoralinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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-squareutopianfiat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years 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-up1·2 years 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.
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.