Category Archives: Joe’s Garage

It Lives Again!

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Joe_Williams

Wherein I rummage through the graveyard of my old computers and try to cobble together a monster that will serve me in this modern age. Continue reading →

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A New Slipcase for my Sketchbook

Posted on January 6, 2026 by Joe

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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Reviving an Old iMac? Elementary, My Dear Watson

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Joe

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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My Half-Assed iMac

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Joe_Williams

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

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Joe

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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A Minty Fresh Refresh

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Joe_Williams

How a 2012 Mac Mini dodged the landfill—and Apple’s planned obsolescence—with Linux Mint. Continue reading →

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The FUTURE circa 1986

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Joe

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

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Joe

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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OK, Now We’re Done

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Joe_Williams

With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go!

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