What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
I’ve got a 2011 MBP running Debian that is about to be put into service as a backup for my Nextcloud server, which is being hosted on 2014 mini that’s also running Debian. That one is my general purpose home server, running things like Navidrome, Mealie, Grimmory, Jellyfin, etc…
Then I’ve also got a 2011 mini running Mint, which I took to work to use solely for giving presentations for teaching competencies.
Those old Macs are resilient computers.
Nice nice! I just got all 200ish GB of photos of my old 2011MBP, so he’s free now! You reckon Debian is the way to go for him?
I’m no expert in these matters by any means, but given my use-case for my older Macs I don’t care about flashy features, I just want them to be solid. And I don’t know as to whether you can get much more solid than Debian. I’ve tried a bunch of distros over the last couple of years, and seem to have settled on Arch for my Fucking About With PCs, and Debian for my Do Not Fuck About With This PCs.
My server only has 8gb of soldered RAM, but she trucks along just nice. Wasn’t a huge fan of me uploading thousands of photos into Immich, but that more taxing on the CPU than anything.