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…
Category: Computer Recycling
Posts that are mostly about the Computer Recycling project at The Working Centre: https://www.theworkingcentre.org/cr/
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…
Reboot to the BIOS from Xubuntu Linux
On systemd-based distributions it’s possible to boot to the BIOS from Linux Have you ever found yourself working on a computer that’s just so blindingly fast that you just cannot mash the…
Xubuntu 22.04 – cannot right/left click after laptop lid closed and opened again
You’ve installed Xubuntu 22.04 on your laptop and things are going smoothly… Then you close the lid on your laptop and discover when you open it back up again that when you…
Running out of space on our media center
Our media center configuration Tucked inside a Corsair Spec-01 case, alongside one of the walls in our living room, is the hardware for our media center. The hardware inside the case is…
Adding an HP Laserjet 1320 as a shared network printer in Xubuntu
Switching Printers at Home Other than running out of toner, there was nothing wrong with the HP Laserjet P1102w printer we have at home. The printer printed cleanly, was compact, and was…
Early Core i-Series System performance benchmarks
Introduction At the start of the pandemic I started to see a lot of videos on the topic of buying older hardware, and how old hardware is sometimes more performant for the…
Cheese removed from Computer Recycling Xubuntu installations
What is Cheese? Cheese is a picture-taking program for computers with webcams built-in (laptops) or attached (external via USB). Cheese is also capable of recording small videos (for larger videos, a program…
My process for updating Discord on Xubuntu Linux
Great and a pain Discord is one of those programs I love to hate. I like Discord because it’s a good way for people to connect with me about Computer Recycling, and…