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innovations in my computing

You can have many copies of your cherished filese, key memories, good safe keeping things… I decided this end of summer I was going to put in place strategy.

Breathing old life into old machines

My Macbook Pro 10,1 from approx 2012… now is running MX Linux! Distraction free writing machine and more. I still need to replace the battery… which may cost up to 150-200 apparently… but its worth it in my view.

It runs MX Linux, the distro, with XFCE, the version of desktop manager it uses now. And it works great! I didnt have to special install anything yet so far after installation. The only issue that is minor is the screen scaling on a retina laptop… it looks a hair clunky.

Next Ill use it for web development…

Off of Google Photos… mostly… for now…

Im not the hugest fan of it but Im trying out Proton photos, with a plan to eventually move to Immich and self host some day in the future. My phone a Google Pixel makes it hard to get off Google Photos in general, but you can disable it and make it stop backing up for now.

My intention is to stop using it for a few months comfortable before trying to retire my google account or something bigger.

Overall: A theme of tidiness, cleanliness, organizationally sounded-ness.