Future Garbage

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Everything we own will eventually become garbage. What does that mean for our stuff and what can we do about it? These posts include topics about e-waste, upcycling, permacomputing, and doing fun things with aging technology.

Moto G5 Plus iPod

For very little effort, I have a media player with some unique features.

January 24, 2026

A photo of a warning from the Android bootloader running a custom ROM. It says

The best alternative to iOS and Android is... Android

We need alternative software for mobile phones and we need it yesterday.

November 10, 2025

A photo of a large retail store called 'Future Store' with a landfill-like heap of garbage that is piled up to the doors of the store.

Future garbage

It's time to get serious about planned obsolescence.

July 12, 2025

A photo of the HP EliteBook mentioned in this blog post. It's sitting on a desk. The screen is open and it's showing a text editor with an earlier draft of this blog post.

My new seven year old laptop

I took the rite of passage of installing Linux on an older laptop.

May 3, 2025

A photo of a Lenovo ThinkCentre PC tower sitting on a desk with an LCD monitor on top of it with a Super Nintendo controller.

My GameCentre

I made the perfect retro video game system. It plays all the games I want, even as recent as Gamecube and Wii games. What I love most about it is that I completed anything at all.

August 26, 2024