I have a beat-up C2D MacBook Pro with upgraded RAM and an SSD as my home server. Makes a great Home Assistant box and could easily run plenty more if I need it

I have a beat-up C2D MacBook Pro with upgraded RAM and an SSD as my home server. Makes a great Home Assistant box and could easily run plenty more if I need it to. I even installed the GUI version of Debian and it was shockingly snappy and capable despite being outright unusable and with constant maximum fan noise even at idle on its last supported Mac OS. In Debian it runs very cool and entirely silent!