New computers are not in the cards for me
Money’s tight and freelance is sparse making the purchase of a new computer less and less likely. It won’t pay for itself. The necessary evil loses its necessity, and it just becomes evil.
The major strike against a new computer is that our Silicon Valley overlords have seen it fit that we, their customers, should own nothing. You’re not buying a computer. You’re paying for the privilege of using it temporarily. The software is a rental and most of their hardware will give up the ghost in five years or so.
You never truly own what you pay for. It’s sort of like real estate taxes.
That is why I have been pulling out some old Macs I’ve had in mothballs and giving them a new lease on life. Some of them are getting a fresh operating system in the form of Linux Mint like the 2012 Mac mini I am typing this article on while others are getting a little surgery and are running a feline-named OS.
