{"id":46525,"date":"2025-11-28T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=46525"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:48:43","slug":"the-mac-minty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/the-mac-minty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac Minty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s Black Friday, and while the shoppers in the West are killing each other over disposable junk manufactured in dystopian hellholes, I\u2019m at home basking in my frugal nature with my 13-year-old Mac Mini brought back to useful life with an installation of a Linux Mint<\/em> operating system.<\/p>\n

I call it The Mac Minty.<\/em><\/p>\n

Below is an inelegant photo of the late 2012 Mac Mini which I saved from obsolescence. It was Tina’s everyday machine, but it was showing its age and getting clunkier with each update. Eventually the updates ceased and the little aluminum box that promised the future became part of the past. She was constantly being nagged by warnings of insecure browsers, and other operations which were reasonably swift at one time had became ponderously slow. We caved, and she upgraded. The old Mini went into storage.<\/p>\n

That is until my old laptop started to nag and the irreplaceable battery refused to hold a charge. There was no way I was going to buy new, and even a used refurbished model was more than I wanted to spend.<\/p>\n

So I did a little research and voila<\/em>.
\n(Read about how it was done HERE<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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