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Here is an update:
Lost pretty much all I had including most hard drives, old pcs, cables and anything related.
Lots of change, so very tired and resting daily a lot but surviving.
In temporary place with very limited common PC access.
Have no hangover of using Net, Old PC. Just listen to clock radio sometimes.
Feels like I fell back 20 to 50 years in time, but making more friends in real life.
Managing quite well.
It's good to hear from you again. But you know, a lot of that stuff you were hoarding was actually junk, so think of it as a tidying-up exercise.
Looking at it from the point of view that all I had was junk actually makes it easier to take the loss.
Now I have a plan what to keep, how much to keep and a periodic procedure to discard older unwanted items.
It is rather interesting that Lord has removed all the unwanted things in my life and giving me new contacts and special
resources that I need for the future.
One of my deep desires is to encourage Scientists and Engineers, specially Chemistry folks to combine science and visual arts.
They are both closely related.
These days, I am mostly doing art with the Crayola 152 pack: https://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Ultim.../dp/B00CI6J3HA
This set I believe is for adults, no kid wishes to work with 152 colors.
I encourage the parents of children who bought this set to slowly try this out for themselves.
This is a very precious resource.
After showing my art work to different social workers finally I was able to manage to get an appointment tomorrow
with an art therapist. This is a restricted area, so I mostly am looking for exchange of ideas.
Down the road I even wish to write a book about art and science.
One social worker suggested that I keep a blog of my art efforts. All this means that I will need an old computer, linux and net again.
Will also need some means to take pictures of my artwork.
Last but not least, was told to get atleast a flip cell phone and use it with a sim card for pay as you go. This is vital for
emergency calls, specially to call 911 if ever the need arises.
Will leave all these for future consideration.
Wow, not many folks showed up for the art program, there were only 2 others, so was allowed to sign up for the art therapy program, this gave me access to all their art materials. The art therapist is super nice, friendly, helpful and professional. I did a few pieces of abstracts with acrylics and gouache. Feels nice to do some art with liquid media after nearly 2 months. The Art Therapist called me a production factory and laughed long. Sorry no pictures.
Wonder how I can take pictures, perhaps might need a camera or scanner, will reserve this for the future.
Art with Linux and Old computers is interesting for sure.
Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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You should be able to pick up an old digital compact camera, just ask around - or maybe someones old smart phone, (but I'm not sure if all phones will allow you to download the photos easily).
There is a guy I chat with a lot locally recently, he gave this to me today in exchange for a Tim Hortons coffee that I will
sponsor for him in future:
The user is locked and am able to use this device but unable to change the password for it. It has 1Mb memory, more than enough
for me. Only thing is that there are a lot of vertical lines across the display, the display still works ok.
First time I have a Mac of my own, very interesting how things workout in life: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/i...cd_2.0_20.html
Somehow old PCs seem to find me. This is a duocore but 32 bit.
Thanks. This iMac is locked in with super user account, I can use it for simple things but cant change much. Needs install CD
to restore to factory format, this I dont have. Doesn`t boot with other external media. So, only other option is to remove the HD, wipe it and install Linux on it. But if it doesn`t boot then it is bricked. Also, need to learn to open this thing. Will reflect more and see.
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