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dherman.dev
Goodbye to my 2002 PowerMac G4, a relic of an era where computers felt to me like cozy little self-contained but internally boundless playgrounds. 🪦
A picture of my 2002 PowerMac G4, whose hard drives I nuked once and for all tonight.
January 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM
devourer.bsky.social
Sofurry running on my PowerMac G4!

Yes Sofurry is online again
Go upload your backlog
January 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
cfranciswrites.bsky.social
Made these slides for Instagram, but I figured this would double as a good pinned post for the top of my profile here... and I also need to justify the many hours I poured into these! Procrastination is my jam.

If you just landed here: Hi. I'm Charlotte. This is my story.
Introducing the series of slides. There's a big poster-style cutout image of me with some handwritten labels (SFF nerd, compulsive writer, ex-teacher, frazzled mum, maker). There are a few polaroid type images at the top: A sunset silhouette picture of me writing in a notebook at the rocky beach; a picture of me as a 3-year-old wearing an 80s style helmet; and a candid, cheerful moment where I'm grinning like an idiot, holding the edges of my sunhat. The main text reads: ABOUT ME I realised I’ve never properly introduced myself. I’m always so busy worrying about the stories in my head, I forgot to tell the story of me. So, with much ado, here I am. It’s lovely to meet you. The background image features a B&W picture of the shelves in my study with general writerly gubbins on display, including a typewriter. 2nd slide in the series. Title: In the Beginning. The main bulk of the slide is a picture of my parents from the 70s—or rather, two pictures, a tear between them. My dad's in front of a blue sky, rocking the 70s flair with shoulder length hair, a shearing tan coat, a black polo neck top, and a silver medallion he made himself. Definitely a character; he was only 20 or so at the time. My mum's picture is more muted. She's indoors, the colours are darker. She's smiling serenely into the camera. The background is lined up with the tear to put her in the darker segment, as if to put her in shadow. I was trying to symbolise the fact I've lost her while my dad lives. And the tear was meant to symbolise their broken marriage when I was a teenager. More handwritten labels surround them. On my dad's side: tells the wackiest, most inventive stories. On my mum's side: exemplary primary teacher, loved reading. There's a cut out image of a Welsh flag on a pole in the bottom right of the slide. The main text reads: I guess my story starts in the 1970s, up in North Wales, with a couple of crazy cats. The background of the image is scrapbook collage style, with a muted colour palette throughout all the slides and torn paper. Slide 3 in the series. Title: Born and Raised. There are lots of childhood photos on this slide. At the top is a big picture of me and my brothers when I was 6. There's a negatives style strip of picture down the left hand side with various pictures: 3-yo me doing my own face paint at a street party, 9-yo me playing baseball, holding the bat; 2-yo me decorating my face with dinner; 7-yo me with our kitten; 8yo me playing the flute. There's a Dutch cut out image of a flag beside it. And beside that is polaroid style image of me and my oldest brother in novelty giant clogs at the Kinderdijk in the Netherlands. The label reads: cultivating outsized expectations since 1989. The main text reads: Born in the mid eighties, the youngest of three, I grew up bilingual in the Netherlands. Slide 4 in the series. Title: Early Days The background features a copy of the first story I ever word-processed when I was 10/11ish, complete with my bilingual spelling and grammar mistakes. I'd just started writing in English that year (though I could read it before). My first language was Dutch at the time after being at a Dutch school since nursery. This was my first year in the international British School, and I was still taking ESL classes. Word processing changed story-telling for me because spell check caught most of my abysmal spellings. Before this, I wrote stories primarily in Dutch in notebooks. There's a cut out picture of me around 10 years old leaning on a polaroid style image of my bedroom desk when I was around 15. It's a blast from the past, around the turn of the millennium, with an old powermac on the desk, a huge scanner, a cd player and speakers, and a stack of CDs. Unusually tidy that day—not sure why. The label reads: ancient historical artefact: a teen writer's sanctum at the turn of the millennium. The final polaroid is of my childhood diary. It's over 30cm tall, with more than a dozen notebooks all stuck together with a cover made from collaged magazine clippings (look close and you'll see some 90s icons). The labels read: My entire childhood in one diary... and ...and so many stories. The main text reads: Telling stories is how I process the world. Before I could write, I recorded stories on a dictaphone. Then came notebooks (lots of notebooks), until my dad gave me his old pizza box Mac when I was 10. Word processing changed everything. I have thousands of stories on my hard drive, spanning 30 years. Including the very first.
January 9, 2026 at 11:50 AM
spamcan.bsky.social
which one

if it's the PC in the PowerMac G5 case then I'll be very impressed
December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
moehock.bsky.social
I loved Apple when introduced to Macs at university, wysiwyg editors and learning coding on them. I paid a stupid amount for a PowerMac but the iphone did not appeal and i'm now linux with an android phone and sometime use windows. Wouldn't touch apple with a barge pole.
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
sirveris.online
I suppose I should post here every once in a while. So I am gonna occasionally make threads where I document some of the old machines I curse myself with. Our first specimen: #PowerSnep a beautiful, now broken example of the Blue and White Powermac G3. FedEx had their own idea of handling. 1/?
Front facing view of an Apple Powermac G3 tower. It's handles are cracked. The side panel is open. Closed side panel of a Powermac G3 Cracked handle of a Powermac G3 A destroyed handle of a Powermac G3.
December 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
n4n0.ch
#Apple #PowerMac #VintageComputing

#nineteenninetynine
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
bmcnett.bsky.social
For a time I had a triple boot laptop running windows NT, FreeBSD, and I can no longer recall which Linux. BSD laptop support was marginal. Mostly used it for NT.

Near the end of its days, my PowerMac 8500 had Yellow Dog Linux partition, before I moved to Texas and most of my kit was recycled.
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
cursedsilicon.social.restless.systems.ap.brid.gy
It's very important that when you adopt a Mac G5 you introduce it to your other Mac G5's right away

Socializing your Mac G5 is important to ensure it remains happy!

Remember. It's not just a PowerPC. It's a lifetime commitment
Four Apple PowerMac G5 Quad units (2005). These four units combined exceed the 1800W electrical outlet limit of a standard North American power socket
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
freyja-lynx.dev
it’s charmingly old. should work on modern computers but i wanna try getting it to work on my powermac so i can use the software it was supposed to come with
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
nonstndrd.com
My first Apple computer was a used PowerMac 7200 that I added a USB card to to connect my .Zip drive to. This was my second…
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
puretech.news
One of our favorite mini PC vendors has launched a NAS that looks a bit like Apple's PowerMac G4 Cube PC - but way smaller #Technology #Hardware #Other #MiniPC #NAS #TechNews
One of our favorite mini PC vendors has launched a NAS that looks a bit like Apple's PowerMac G4 Cube PC - but way smaller
Beelink ME mini features six M.2 slots, dual 2.5Gbps ports, and NAS supportOffers 24TB storage, X86 processing, and private cloud functionalitySupports virtual machines, cloud backups, and home theater...
puretech.news
March 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
collectabk7.bsky.social
A PowerMac G4 tower running a special version of Minecraft. A totally real Macintosh SE/30 also running Minecraft. A Macintosh Performa 450 running SimCity 2000. A massive SGI Onyx2 machine.
February 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
lukirudaka.bsky.social
We were out decommissioning older systems out the warehouse. Picked up what I thought was a Powermac G5, thinking it'd be a nice replacement to the dead server unit (RIP 2013-2024)..

I've struck gold! It turns out it's a 24-core Xeon, and if I can get the SSDs scrambled, they're letting me keep it.
August 1, 2024 at 3:47 PM
edwardodell.bsky.social
the CPU was a PowerMac 66 clone
November 21, 2024 at 9:37 PM
flame.dog
A PowerMac G4 cube
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
gateta.systems
I had something weird going on with SDRAM on the PowerMac G4, different behavior depending on slot order, and Apple Hardware Diag not booting. In the end, I fixed it by overwriting the suspect SPD with one from a known good stick. But it's true on PC you can set timings manually.
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
godkiller1242.bsky.social
The PowerMac G4 successfully connects to the Tru64 box... this is huge

I need to work more on the laptop that is running AppleTalk/Samba services and stuff more though because I don't have a good way to get anything on or off of here... including the Mac OS X updates themselves
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
speaktrap.pol.social.ap.brid.gy
Wczoraj mi się nudziło i przeniosłem PowerMaca G4 do obudowy ATX.
Uważajcie na nudę.
PowerMac G4 Sawtooth z kartami SATA i USB 2.0 w obudowie Thermaltake
October 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
majorsound.bsky.social
achja, die erste Liebe 😍
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January 28, 2024 at 8:43 AM
amaninblack.bsky.social
threatening an innocent powermac when a duo dock nightmare is right there, smh my head
August 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM
sabbateanfujoshi.bsky.social
a dual CPU PowerMac running KDE 3.5 on Gentoo and its brother, an HPPA machine running Gentoo headless, connected over SSH
April 30, 2023 at 3:36 PM
kudanyuto.bsky.social
二十余年の汚れが落とされスッキリ清潔になった20世紀製の PowerMac G3 の部分的意匠に似せたデザインの３段PP製棚

過炭酸Na(酸素系漂白剤)溶かしたぬるま湯に沈めたらぬるま湯が一気に黒茶色になってびっくりした…
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July 21, 2024 at 1:27 PM
thesocialsage.bsky.social
One of our favorite mini PC vendors has launched a NAS that looks a bit like Apple's PowerMac G4 Cube PC - but way smaller https://replug.link/24dba318 #d #oneplus #photography
Unbelievable! This NAS is less than 1L in volume but can store up to 24TB of SSD and aims to compete with cloud storage
Beelink ME mini will launch soon, but ME Pro and ME MAX will be much later
replug.link
March 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
ennex.world
I've been doing stuff on my PowerMac 9600 with a 300MHz G3 upgrade card in it. I cannot believe there was a point in time where we considered this "amazingly fast", even with the G3 upgrade.
September 19, 2023 at 2:38 AM