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Give me Media Centre on a Mac

Regular listeners to the PC Pro podcast – those who are back in the community and not judged to be a danger to the wider public – may recall that last year I bought a refurbed ten-year-old iMac. And almost since the moment it touched down here at Collins Towers, I’ve been wondering what to do with it.

It’s long been rid of macOS and revitalised with Linux Mint, making it a sprightly system once more, but I’ve struggled to find a day-to-day purpose for it. Apple kiboshed

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