https://www.edutopia.org/arts-music-...ld-development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_education

The above articles show the importance of art education for overall personality. I was not even aware of a branch called art education as such until yesterday when I met a student studying art education and had a brief chat, on reflection of this chat moments ago I decided to look further into it and found the above links. Calligraphy is rated very high among arts in China, Steve Jobs learned this and it gave him a razor sharp edge at the start of his career. This can't be denied.

Antix is a great distro for older PCs, I really enjoyed it the last few times I tried it.
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10318
Will reserve trying this for the long term future, have several minor interesting art projects on for now.

I was playing with AntiX on my T43 a few months back and liked it quite a bit. I never could get ConnectShares configured properly, but that's less of an issue now.

D* Small Linux was my absolute favourite microdistro back in the day but I played with them all back in the '00s.

Hyperbola was great when it worked, but I can't seem to get anything Arch-based to install or update for reasons that are simply beyond my puny comprehension at the moment, so I've just been using vanilla Debian to survive.

The T21 is getting a new as in new hard drive as soon as I can afford one.

I've been playing with OpenWRT and cheap routers and made a piratebox for my neighbourhood yesterday. It was so easy and inexpensive as to be almost a let-down as far as a technical project, but now I'm wondering what to share, how it will be received, and if it will do any good at all.

I'm so glad to see you posting on this thread, rvijay. I don't always have anything to add but I always enjoy listening to what you have to say. There is always something positive waiting for me here and your optimism and calm patience with the world and the young 'uns are contagious.

If you liked DamnSmallLinux, you should really try out Tiny Core, it runs great on old hardware.

I have it on one of my slow old laptops, & use it daily for checking all my email & forums first thing in the morning.

Then I go upstairs to my present main computer, a Raspberry Pi 3B set up as a desktop computer using a 11.6" monitor.

Thanks for your kind words.

Presently, I came across this wonderful audio book and am listening to few chapters at a time:
https://librivox.org/in-his-steps-by...onroe-sheldon/

Reports like this are a concern
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...092409071.html

Our body is just like a biological cushion, biological machine, the clothing and other things add an element of art.
So better to squeeze a real cushion than to bother another person. I prefer not to disturb anyone but rather help others when possible using my old PC and Linux.

For those interested in odd/abnormal love, here is some ways others are making a difference positively:

Exclusive Interview with the Birdman of Chennai who feeds Thousands of Parrots Everyday - Thanthi TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdxTglYEQgE

AQUARIUMS saved my life (EMOTIONAL) PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9IGQ8WAOM

Ohio Big Fish Rescue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLk6IlPSh2k

This is another noteworthy mention:
The Free Willy Story: Keiko's Journey Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Ipm4zKo2E

Just received my new computer.....

Got it set up with AntiX, lovely quiet fanless machine, about 4.5" square, 1.5" thick, so I'll just hide it behind my monitor.

Still using my old ones though.....

Wonderful rivjay links to get me through some afk stress today.

I'm waiting on a 120 GB drive for the T21 that I just couldn't resist on a slow boat from China. That should be plenty to make Damn Small Linux my "daily driver" for offline use again. I had no luck at all trying to share files through my gl.inet minirouter, which would have solved the whole ext2 filesystem issue once and for all but oh well.

I haven't been allowing myself enough time to enjoy my old computers.

My "new" computer is a piratebox that was easier to set up on a gl.inet than it seems to be to decide just what, exactly, would be most helpful to share in a lower-income family oriented neighbourhood where all of the wifi networks seem to have names like "netgear90", "suddenlink.net-679347-guest" and "TP-LINK-90D".

Somehow I don't think the philosophy of Richard Stallman or "Nothing To Hide--the documentary about surveillance" or Illich, Freire, Holt, Neitszche, etc. is really the best way to launch this project. Maybe some nice public domain bedtime stories by Thornton Burgess would be more appropriate.

The Beaglebone Black that is on its way is intended to be used as a freedombox, with the intention of extending the spiderweb to friends I met online and continuing my own education as far as networking goes. If it doesn't work out, I can always just use it for the internet and free up my librebooted thinkpads for more interesting projects.

I'm still not sure what's up with my T43, but since it boots from a secondary drive that can easily replace the CD drive in the superbay, I'm still quite happy with it and wound up trying another $6.99 worth to get a drive caddy that will, hopefully, let me use regular el cheapo SATA drives on both grand old gals.

I guess my Eee PC netbooks are also "Old PCs" now, so I'll post about them some other time. My circa 2006 X60 tablets are all three getting some love and makeovers as well.

Wow, that is quite a nice small PC. Lucky you, enjoy

Glad you liked those links. Thanks for sharing all that info. about the old PCs you have.

Today I found an abandoned KB on a set of carboardboxes with used AC filters. This KB was very dirty and so I left it
as such, however my instinct got very strong and told me to look around. Then I found a used HP Compaq PC abandoned on an electric box with the monitor cable and a USB cable that has a network cable at the other end. There was also a TV cable close to it, left it as such. The used PC I found today needed cleaning, so I focused on this first, was easy to clean it with the hair dryer and then some paper towels. This PC boots ok and even has its own speakers, only thing is that it has a BIOS password on boot, that prevents access to the BIOS. 250G HD, 2Gb Ram from 2009, very smooth operation. It also has DVD Burner. Booted well with Puppy Slacko 5.3.3, installed this OS on it for now. Need to learn to get into the system menu by overcoming the boot pwd.

Edited to add:
This PC is a Core2Duo from 2009.

This is not for now for me. Will reserve trying tiny core for the future. Thanks for the suggestion/reminder tho, it was a good one.

All polymaths are encouraged to join this thread, share and contribute:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

Found these tips to overcome the BIOS pwd., will try later on:
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000235.htm

Tried the first method above just now, the pwd jumper is a little different with only 3 pairs of 2 legs in parallel.
So removed the jumper and booted PC, pressed F10, went into Bios directly. Turned off PC, replaced the
jumper, booted PC and pressed F10, was able access Bios again. Glad this issue resolved easily.

This entire PC had lotsss of dust on all its vents, specially behind the front panel, it was last used in 2016. Guess it was on a lot and in a dusty place to get so much dust. Glad it was easy to clean to.

Might do Memory Test and HD test on this PC later tomorrow.

On a different note, I got 4Gb USB drives x 3 from a local recycling place for free.
They are still in their original cover. Will use these later. Been a nice day so far. )

UNDERCOVER ASIA: LONELY DEATHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKNnUu1sFdk

The documentary above was very sad to see. Linux with old PC is good for such folks to connect with others,
hobbies etc.,

Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/...re-64-emulator

Thanks. It does make a very pleasant change from a screaming desktop.

But even my old laptops are getting noisy now, & they're pretty clean inside, must be a thermal thing.

Just had a quick look to see when I bought them, around 2010, so I guess they don't owe me anything.