<![CDATA[Y'all, I'm running #PopOS on an old 13 inch MacBook Pro.]]>Y'all, I'm running on an old 13 inch MacBook Pro. I'm really wanting to upgade to something new and with a better keyboard but maybe I just replace the battery, repaste the CPU and blow the thing out with canned air and call it good for another 5 years? It feels a smidge slow but I think repasting and canned air will help with heat throttling.

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| Machine | MacBook Pro (2015, Broadwell i7-5557U) |
| CPU | 2 cores / 4 threads @ 3.1 GHz (max 3.4) |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Disk | 466 GB Apple SSD (LUKS encrypted, ext4, 50% used) |
| OS | Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, kernel 6.18.7 |
| Swap | 15.5 GB zram + 4 GB encrypted partition |

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