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A huge upshot to using a laptop is you have a built-in UPS and KVM.

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[โ€“] early_riser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I also have a 2015 MBP lying fallow in my closet. Do you have any suggestions for turning it into a server? Are you using MacOS still or have you installed something else?

[โ€“] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I wiped macos and installed proxmox on it. The wireless didn't work well, but I had a dock laying around with a cat5 plug that worked just fine. Has been going strong for a few months now.