Cool tech projects

[Philip J. Fry]

Hey nerds.

So, I have an old 2015 MacBook Pro that I love but My M1 MacBook Air laps it in every metric. By the time the MBP does 1 mile worth of computing, the Air is finishing a marathon. What can I do with this MBP?

So far, I installed Linux Mint on it and am installing a Tor bridge on the laptop. I have a 1 gigabit internet connection and will donate the extra bandwidth to pedophiles and journalist and political dissidents. Anything else?

anyone got cool tech projects that would be a fun weekend project?

 

[eliquid]

start a series of "will it blend" type of videos.

but do it with a wood chopper

 

[bernard]

Try to do a restoration/refurb project and donate it to some poor bastard. Write about how to do it.

And by donating, I mean selling it cheap on Craigslist, because donating just means giving it for free to some guy who sits around professionally seeking out freebies.

The first couple of laptops I had when I began posting here were like 2008 IBM Thinkpads, bought for $20, that I added extra RAM for and ran Linux Mint on. Worked pretty well. Good times haha.

Next up I bought exactly a 2013 Macbook Air, which would have been perfectly fine except for Photoshop and now I have an M1 and that's basically the greatest laptop I've ever owned.

 

[Jesse]

Kodi combined with the Zach Morris Repository is free, easy to set up and can give you an enormous retro emulation setup in a very short period of time. It's perfect for an older laptop connected to a TV.

 

[gunnar]

I revived a Macbook Pro from 2015 by just upgrading the ram and fitting a SSD as hard disk. It is okay to work with now, and my daughter uses it since then.