A few months ago, I scored a fully working Apple PowerMac G4 Cube on eBay. My original plan was to convert it into a working computer by swapping the guts for a Raspberry Pi 4. After getting the initial build working, I wasn't particularly happy with the performance for a desktop, so I decided to look elsewhere.
Last week, thanks to a friend, I was able to purchase a Dell Wyse thin client labeled as a refurbished computer for around $100. It has a Pentium Silver J5005 inside, 8 GB of RAM, and a tiny built in flash storage.
I cracked it open, stripped it down, and sure enough the motherboard is the perfect size to pressure fit carefully inside the G4 Cube chassis. Result!
Next, I added a 250 GB Samsung EVO SSD, and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. I am using a little USB switcher so I can share keyboard and mouse with my M1 MacBook Pro, and it works wonderfully hooked up to a 4K monitor.
Next up, I need to clean the interior a bit, so some cable management, and find a way to integrate the power button.
What a fun project this has been so far!
Read this and give up on elite activism. Another glaring reminder as to how capitalism and one’s alliance to white supremacy (explicit or otherwise) are intertwined and demand each other. https://www.aaihs.org/airbrushing-revolution-for-the-sake-of-abolition/
If a company can force a technology on a whole industry, I’m itching to fail to see how that company not only controls that industry before doing so but also now holds the community in it hostage (in their now forcing people to learn to “adapt or die”).
LMFAO the number of times I legit looked at a product’s job page for this but wasn’t ever brave enough https://twitter.com/dreams_of_sloth/status/1377051721655066629