Past Isopropyl is a great way to clean up a lot of plastic, but I found that while it’s helpful for removing grime, caked on stickers (Goo Gone), and other crud, it…
Category: Computer Recycling
Posts that are mostly about the Computer Recycling project at The Working Centre: https://www.theworkingcentre.org/cr/
Transitioning our KODI media centre
Moving more to a low-power solution Several months back I replaced the motherboard in the KODI media centre PC that sits in our living room. For many years our media centre has…
Linux on the Lenovo ThinStation C20 (MT-M 4265-93U)
Workstation class hardware at a deeply discounted price Every now and then the Computer Recycling Project at The Working Centre gets a really interesting piece of hardware donated. As a not-for-profit project…
Potential webcam issue on Computer Recycling’s Xubuntu 22.04 Installations
Extra software for better experience The “stock” installation of Xubuntu Linux only includes a small amount of software. To make Xubuntu a bit more useful to regular computer users, the Computer Recycling…
Xubuntu 24.04 Bugs [so far] – May 3, 2024
Xubuntu Linux version 24.04 is out Version 24.04 of Xubuntu Linux is now out! Xubuntu Linux has been a staple of the Computer Recycling Project @ The Working Centre since 2010. With…
Steam on Linux Mint XFCE 21.3 (Virginia)
Debian package over flatpak, but get it from Steam Moving from Xubuntu to Linux Mint XFCE was not as seemless as I’d hoped it would be. The last time I gave Linux…
My home workstation is now Linux Mint XFCE 21.3 (Virginia)
Switching from Xubuntu to Linux Mint After 13 years of running Xubuntu on most of my hardware, I’ve now switched my main (desktop) workstation to Linux Mint XFCE 21.3 (codename: Virginia). I…
Dell PowerEdge T110 II Network Attached Storage (NAS) build – Part II – TrueNAS
Mixed drives of similar size worked In my last post I mentioned the concern that I might not be able to mix drive types. The NAS is currently running 2 x 3TB…
Playing Paradroid on Xubuntu 22.04
Another classic game, Paradroid, has a version for (X)ubuntu Growing up in the Commodore 64 era, I’m particularly fond of the games of that age. Games in that era tended to be…
Run “Prince of Persia” in Xubuntu
Prince of Persia was a classic DOS game When I first ran Prince of Persia on PC-DOS I remember thinking, “finally, a DOS game that rivals the fun I had on Commodore…