agreed.
either way remove the battery.
100%.
but $ for cpu+ram of old MacBooks makes it feasible. They are dirt cheap on ebay, and I don’t need the screen.
My bedrock server runs on a 2012mbpro. I take daily backups and have another mbp laying around when this one fails completely. The expanding battery warped the shell pretty bad, but it’s still functional.
agreed.
either way remove the battery.
This was a valid tactic, if not accidental.
during WW2 Germans and Japanese both said that you could not rely on US soldiers to do things by the book (or the way they had been trained) and had a harder time predicting behavior and movement of smaller groups of troops.