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I’m halfway done turning a 2010 MacBook Air with a broken screen into a headless batocera game machine for my living room (halfway because I had to order some m
by dchuk 4y ago
I’m halfway done turning a 2010 MacBook Air with a broken screen into a headless batocera game machine for my living room (halfway because I had to order some more tools because I’m missing a torx driver). It’s actually going to create my ideal computer, I love the keyboard and trackpad of the MacBooks and you just plug in an external display and it works.
One helpful thing that isn’t easy to google: if you need to get to Mac recovery console but your MacBook’s screen is cracked, take it apart and disconnect the LVDS (lcd screen) cable, and it basically turns your MacBook into a Mac mini. Otherwise it will boot to its own screen first until the OS is up and ready.
- plugin-baby 4y ago> take it apart and disconnect the LVDS (lcd screen) cable Can you then completely remove the screen?
- dchuk 4y agoYep, just finished doing that actually. A little hacky to get the wifi antenna to sit cleanly on the bottom part of the case, but otherwise worked out perfectly!
- truncate 4y agoJust wondering what's the idle power usage (watt hrs) is like?
- dchuk 4y agoI don’t really know, haven’t measured. Likely less than a normal MacBook Air since the display is gone. Regardless, I live in San Diego and our electricity is already so overpriced that it just doesn’t even register for me anymore anyways.
- msravi 4y agoI use a mid-2010 macbook pro (with the screen developing large splotches of black) as a home server after installing linux mint, and it's been working flawlessly. Been up now for 192 days without a reboot. It runs a webserver for two low-volume websites, pihole, nextcloud, photoprism, paperless-ngx. The disconnecting lvds cable is a helpful tip, thank you!
- peterpost2 4y agoHow do you seperate network coming for your website and for your home? I would like to run a website at home but am afraid that due to some programming mistake a hacker takes control of my server and they can access whatever devices I have at home.
- bo0tzz 4y agoVLANs would be the usual tool for this sort of thing.
- msravi 4y agoI have ports 80 and 443 open on my WAN and forwarded to the server on the LAN. My websites are static (apart from an isso commenting server), so I guess the risk of someone taking control of the server is low... But I'm not sure if that's the right way to do it
- prvc 4y agoDo you just leave the gaps open where the hinges were, or are they covered somehow?