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Linux on PowerPC Ain't Dead Yet!

Today we're installing the NEW Adelie Linux Beta 6 for PowerPC on a bunch of old Macs!

(Ad Free) Finally, it's the Year of the HAIKU Desktop!

We finally have the Firefox web browser back on Haiku! Let's install it and see how well it works.

(Ad Free) Dual Booting an iMac like it's 2001

Today we're installing Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC from original install media on a rather weird "Flower Power" iMac G3!

Ubuntu... on an old Surface Pro?

Today we're saving an "obsolete" Surface Pro from the scrap heap and installing the latest version of Ubuntu! But is it at all usable?

What's Killing all the iMacs?

Today we're saving a very special iMac G3 from the fate that dooms them all...

Building a Mac in a Microcontroller

Today, we're using the Pico Micro Mac project, along with a project from the endlessly cool Ron's Computer Videos, to build an entire Macintosh 128K inside of a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller!

Fienix, the Modern PowerPC Linux Distro

Fienix Linux is a really cool PowerPC-first Linux distro. Let's install it on the ultimate iMac G5!

[Early Access] This eMac is Totally Fine...

Today we're saving Apple's oft-overlooked masterpiece, the eMac G4! But what horrors have the capacitor plague bestowed upon us?!

We're also testing out a cordless soldering iron that Fanttik sent me. Seems pretty neat.

Would you like to play a game?

Squirrel Simulator! It's an... um... "game".

System 7.1 or higher, requires at least a 68020. Compressed with Stuffit Deluxe 5.5.

(Ad Free) The HP Touchpad was too pure for this world

Today we're fixing up the greatest tablet ever released - the 2011 HP TouchPad running webOS! VIDEO LINKS:

🍎 webOS Archive: https://appcatalog.webosarchive.org/ 

🍎 Tedium article: https://tedium.co/2020/03/31/hp-touchpad-history/

(Bonus) I Finally Got an Apple Lisa!

Well, I finally found one! I honestly never thought I would, but here it is - thanks to some incredible friends.

(Early Access) Trash Can Void Droid

Today we're finally fixing the biggest flaw with the 2013 Trash Can Mac Pro... it's hideous appearance. Oh, and we'll install Void Linux.

(Ad Free) The World's Most Extreme Quadra 700

Today we're building a PC in a one of 15 custom built Quadra 700-style mini ITX case. Every part of this case is a labor of love and work of art.

🍎 Subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/sffsleeperpc/

(Early Access) What Happened to Firefox OS?

Today we're installing a developer preview of Firefox OS onto a somewhat spicy Galaxy Tab 4!

(Ad Free) LATEST Ubuntu on a 2012 iMac! (CPU Swap!)

Today we're swapping an i7 into a 2012 iMac, and installing the latest version of Ubuntu! How will it perform?

VIDEO LINKS:

🍎 Ubuntu 24.04: https://ubuntu.com/desktop 

🍎 Custom Nvidia driver PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/ubuntu/nvidiaexp 

🍎 Ubuntu Kernel Switcher: 2024-08-26 23:34:51 +0000 UTC View Post

(Ad Free) My DIY Transparent Apple Monitor

Today we're turning a transparent prison-issue CRT TV into a DIY Apple IIGS monitor!

🍎 GG Labs GS2HD: https://www.tindie.com/products/gglabs/gs2hd-apple-iigs-rgb-to-hdtv-component-adapter/

(Ad Free) Mac Plus + Guitar Pedal Sounds AMAZING

Today we're exploring some revolutionary early Mac music software that's nearly lost to time... and running it through a modern guitar pedal!

🍎 Music Mouse modern implementation: https://teropa.info/musicmouse/

🍎 Interview with Laurie Spiegel at NAMM: https://ww1.namm.org/library/oral-history/laurie-spiege...

(Ad Free) The Ultimate Hacker Handheld?

Today we're installing the 32 bit version of Kali Linux on a tiny Goober PC.

(Ad Free) Hacking a Prison TV!

Today we're hacking up an old transparent prison CRT TV to give it some better inputs... to maybe even use as a computer monitor!

(Early Access) It's Back.

Today, the Cursed Mac returns for a slew of new mods!

(Early Access) Abusing Intel Xeon CPUs

Let's tear apart some Xeon processors to cram them into our ultimate Linux Mac Pro!

(Early Access) Building an Extreme Linux Mac Pro

Today, we're upgrading the crap out of a Mac Pro 5,1 to turn it into the ultimate Linux Mac Pro. I've been wanting to do this build for ages!

(Early Access) Installing Arch Linux on a Tiny Goober PC

Today, we're installing a very special version of Arch Linux, Arch32, on an absolute goober of a Panasonic ToughBook handheld PC. How painful could it possibly be?

(Early Access) I Built a "Mac Minus"

(Ad Free) Where Did Arch Linux Come From?

Today, we're installing the very first Arch Linux from 2002, version 0.1! Let's delve into Linux history in the most painful way possible - full install on original hardware!

🍎 The install Gist: https://gist.github.com/Alee14/e32a44e53d910a4cf5802e0c59d78061

(Ad Free) Windows NT Macintosh Edition

Today, we're installing Windows NT on PowerPC Mac - something that was previously impossible!

🍎 Github: https://github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh

(Ad Free) Installing Justin Bieber Linux on the Hot Wheels PC

Today, we're installing the One True Linux To Rule Them All, BIEBIAN! On a Hot Wheels PC. Because reasons.

Sneak peek from this week's video

it's beebian time.

(Ad Free) I'm Building Something Very Serious

Today we're doing a totally normal SE/30 build. For normal reasons. Nothing is strange, just every day computing.

LINKS:

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🍎 DekuNukem power PicoRC board: https://github.com/dekuNukem/PicoRC 

🍎 Accelerator thread on 68kMLA: https:...

BONUS VIDEO: Testing a Dream Commodore 128D Setup

In today's bonus video, we're testing out a dream Commodore 128D setup that I picked up a few months ago with my friend Mike.