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fixed the url, an oversight sorry.

Hopefully all is well now after a tidy and rebuild... I'll see, I suppose.

I love this so much, thank you

Have it set up under my blog, it is a very nice addition

It's funny how using an OS built for the period of the machine just works fine; even modern DE's won't run nicely on old hardware I find. How unnecessarily spoilt we have become.

I was having a bit of a chuckle at the wallpaper; thats the sort of thing I would do

I decided I would not stick to an old machine for daily use - but I could make an old machine useful. And so it took a week of sporadic time, but I got a terminal based Music machine set up for my garage, via aux cable to stereo: https://the.teabag.ninja/old-computer-challenge.html

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And I am done. https://the.teabag.ninja/old-computer-challenge.html

Very happy with how this challenge prompted me to end up with a usable machine for playing music in my garage that otherwise would be going to the tip, and learned a few things along the way (like mounting a samba share in the ...

Very true hah. Celeron inside

I friend is suggesting I pacman -Syu and see if I can bring it to current

I recently dragged out an Acer Aspire 3500 from a storage unit I was renting... it is from I guess mid or early 2000s? Boots with Manjaro from 2013 with 3.10 Linux kernel, and works surprisingly snappy.

I am detailing it all on this post on my blog, and so far am thinking of making it into ...

I recently dragged out an Acer Aspire 3500 from a storage unit I was renting... it is from I guess mid or early 2000s? Boots with Manjaro from 2013 with 3.10 Linux kernel, and works surprisingly snappy.

I made a post in the blog section (which was here, but I thought that would be better afterwards ...