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

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

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

    • naught@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      14 hours ago

      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 (:

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        14 hours 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.