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Category Archives: Computers
A New Slipcase for my Sketchbook
Never knowing when inspiration is going to strike, I always carry a sketchbook with me. I carry a few different cases of pens and pencils. I also carry hard drives and flash drives and cords and adapters and tools and … Continue reading
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Joe's Garage
Tagged cardboard, cheap, glue, protect, sketchbook, slipcase, sturdy
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Reviving an Old iMac? Elementary, My Dear Watson
Similar to my Mac Minty which I have written about here and here, I have brought new life back to an otherwise ignored iMac in work with the installation of a Linux operating system. This time the Linux Distro I … Continue reading
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Posted in Computers, Curious Clutter, Joe's Garage
Tagged Apple obsolescence, cheap hardware upgrade, dual boot Mac Linux, Elementary OS, external SSD boot, free software alternatives, GIMP Inkscape, iMac revival, late 2013 iMac, LibreOffice, Linux on old Mac, Mac Minty, OWC Mercury enclosure, sustainable computing, Thunderbolt 2
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My Half-Assed iMac
I’ve been tinkering with my Mac Minty which I also refer to as my “Half-assed iMac.” It’s a 2012 Mac mini running Linux Mint, bolted to the back of a 21.5″ Asus VS228H-P monitor with a $9 VESA mount adapter … Continue reading
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The Mac Minty
It’s Black Friday, and while the shoppers in the West are killing each other over disposable junk manufactured in dystopian hellholes, I’m at home basking in my frugal nature with my 13-year-old Mac Mini brought back to useful life with … Continue reading
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Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged 2012 Mac Mini lives, 2025 still using 2012 hardware, 40-dollar computer, anti-Apple, anti-consumerism, Apple hate, Apple obsolescence, Black Friday, breathing new life, cable management shame, cheapskate, Cinnamon desktop, ewaste, frugal computing, frugal life, hardware resurrection, last upgradeable Mini, late 2012 Mac Mini, Linux desktop, Linux Mint, Linux on Mac, Mac Mini, Mac Mini Linux hack, Mac Minty, minimalist setup, old Mac revival, open source, penny pincher, planned obsolescence, RAM upgrade, refusing to upgrade, repurposed Mac, right to repair, second-life Mac, SSD upgrade, sustainable computing, tech rebellion, tech thrift, user-upgradeable Mac, VESA mount
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A Minty Fresh Refresh
How a 2012 Mac Mini dodged the landfill—and Apple’s planned obsolescence—with Linux Mint. Continue reading
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Posted in Computers, Curious Clutter, Joe's Garage, Trash or Treasure
Tagged 2012 Mac Mini, Affinity suite, Apple obsolescence, Apple repair, bootable USB, Brave browser, Dan the photographer, e-waste, Firefox, free software, Genius Bar, GIMP, glued batteries, hand-me-down Macs, Inkscape, ISO file, Linux Mint, Linux on Mac, M5 Mac Mini, Mac Mini, Mac Mini Linux install, Mac to Linux, obsolete Mac, open source software, repairability, second life tech, soldered RAM, tech resurrection, Wacom tablet, YouTube tutorial
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Memorial Day 2023
More than half a century ago a skinny kid from Maryland found himself in a place he had probably never heard of — Phu Loi, Vietnam. This is Daniel Love who I met on a job about 25 years after … Continue reading
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Posted in Blast from the Past, Computers, Holiday
Tagged Dan Love, Memorial Day, Phu Loi, Vietnam
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The FUTURE circa 1986
Bubo the Rat is one of my earliest digital illustrations. I drew it on a digitizing tablet called The Animation Station which plugged into a Commodore 64. The print was output on a Panasonic dot matrix printer.
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Thinking Differently
We were in the market for a new computer and I was hearing great things about the current Mac mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. The video reviews I watched were mostly enthusiastic for Apple’s entry level desktop computer so … Continue reading
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Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged Apple, computer, M1, Mac, mini, robot, Supply Line
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One Touch Colorization
A new set of features in the recently updated Photoshop make it unbelievably easy to cheat by making the painstaking process of colorizing photos into a one button process!
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Posted in Computers, photo manipulation, Photography, The Photo Elective
Tagged 35mm, colorize, film, Neural Filters, Photoshop, Self portait, Tina Garceau
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