{"id":53412,"date":"2020-12-29T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=53412"},"modified":"2020-12-29T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T09:00:42","slug":"bring-an-old-macbook-back-to-life-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=53412","title":{"rendered":"Bring an old MacBook back to life with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/computer_desk_home_laptop_browser.png\" width=\"1040\" height=\"585\" alt=\"Digital images of a computer desktop\" title=\"Digital images of a computer desktop\"><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I stumbled on an old MacBook Pro 13&#8243; from late 2011, with a 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. I&#8217;ve taken this machine on trips around the world, and back in the day, I ran many a session, workshop, or demo to share all the AppDev goodness from JBoss technologies.<\/p>\n<p>After verifying that its battery works, charging it up, and reinstalling a new OS X, it turns out that the Safari browser version is limited to an old security specification, which means it can&#8217;t connect to a lot of HTTPS sites now. This renders this solution defunct.<\/p>\n<p>What to do with this old thing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/20\/12\/linux-macbook\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I stumbled on an old MacBook Pro 13&#8243; from late 2011, with a 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. I&#8217;ve taken this machine on trips around the world, and back in the day, I ran many a session, workshop, or demo to share all the AppDev goodness from JBoss technologies. After verifying that its battery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}