I'm not really sure what I want to write right now but I want to try just writing my thoughts out more as I don't do that enough and the blogging here seems like as good a place as any for that. Sorry that this is probably just a massive amount of words for little reason, I'm not coming into this with a plan and just want to write things in a public place to help get more comfortable with expressing myself and such... Its also 3:00 (AM)... 
I'm on my iBook G4 (Late '05 12", 1.33 GHz PPC G4, 1.5 GB DDR RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.8) as I'm writing this so that's what I'm going to write about This computer is basically what I use when I'm just feeling too stressed out and want to get off the computer, if I just stop I'll probably end up back on in 5 minutes though so instead I take out this computer and it feels like I'm back in elementary school or something (this is what we had in the class back in like 2010 still). I've got it all set up so it can do just about everything I do, YouTube, GBAtemp, Discord, iTunes, git, a decent text editor, just not all at once (I said its from 2005 ;P).
On my main computer (Mid '13 MacBook Air) no matter what I try to block myself I can always just go around myself and defeat the point - I've blocked access to https://discordapp.com on that computer then preceded to turn on my proxy so that I can access it - this one is simply physically not able to run iTunes, YouTube, Discord, and VS Code all at once and me end up overwhelming myself. Something about having YouTube on playing songs from 2012 while browsing GBAtemp and having the page stutter a bit while scrolling and the song cut out for 5 - 10 seconds every time I click a link and having a legitimate way to stop myself from just leaving Discord open in the background just really helps me calm down... Its very nostalgic feeling despite the fact that this wasn't what I would've been doing 10 years ago... It still has that feeling in a way that's hard to capture without actually using old hardware like this...
Also I've got some good memories with this laptop, I've only had it since 20... 17 I think, not all the way since back in elementary school, but in high school my school had school issued iPads, but none of my teachers were ever very strict about using the iPad if you wanted to bring a laptop and it could do everything the iPads could, for my entire 11th grade year and part of 12th I used this laptop (which was about 17 years). I found it pretty fun using such an outdated laptop but it often performed better than the school iPads, none of the websites we needed were usually very intensive and since everything was online and PowerPC Macs have some good backported browsers the only things that ever really made this struggle were Google Slides and videos.
The iBook G4 is still one of my favorite laptops to this day, the keyboard is really comfortable to use (good size keys, good travel, responsive feel), the screen has a pretty good resolution of 1024x768 (4:3) it does get tablet sizes sometimes due to that being the iPad's resolution, but the 4:3 aspect ratio really beats out the 16:9 of the 11" MacBook Airs and most other netbooks, and its got a matte finish that makes it easy to see the screen even in brightly lit places, the final 2005 models even have a multi touch trackpad that has better 2 finger scrolling than just about any Windows laptop I've used older than the Surface Pro 3 (and even a lot of modern cheaper laptops, if you hate trackpads you probably just haven't used an Apple one from 2005 or newer).
Welp, the moral of this story is... I like outdated tech? Not a surprise, I make DS homebrew in 2020
I'm intentionally not proofreading this before posting as I'd probably end up deleting it so have a rambling about the iBook G4
PS: Some recommended software for the iBook G4 on Leopard in 2020:
I'm on my iBook G4 (Late '05 12", 1.33 GHz PPC G4, 1.5 GB DDR RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.8) as I'm writing this so that's what I'm going to write about
This computer is basically what I use when I'm just feeling too stressed out and want to get off the computer, if I just stop I'll probably end up back on in 5 minutes though so instead I take out this computer and it feels like I'm back in elementary school or something (this is what we had in the class back in like 2010 still). I've got it all set up so it can do just about everything I do, YouTube, GBAtemp, Discord, iTunes, git, a decent text editor, just not all at once (I said its from 2005 ;P).On my main computer (Mid '13 MacBook Air) no matter what I try to block myself I can always just go around myself and defeat the point - I've blocked access to https://discordapp.com on that computer then preceded to turn on my proxy so that I can access it - this one is simply physically not able to run iTunes, YouTube, Discord, and VS Code all at once and me end up overwhelming myself. Something about having YouTube on playing songs from 2012 while browsing GBAtemp and having the page stutter a bit while scrolling and the song cut out for 5 - 10 seconds every time I click a link and having a legitimate way to stop myself from just leaving Discord open in the background just really helps me calm down... Its very nostalgic feeling despite the fact that this wasn't what I would've been doing 10 years ago... It still has that feeling in a way that's hard to capture without actually using old hardware like this...
Also I've got some good memories with this laptop, I've only had it since 20... 17 I think, not all the way since back in elementary school, but in high school my school had school issued iPads, but none of my teachers were ever very strict about using the iPad if you wanted to bring a laptop and it could do everything the iPads could, for my entire 11th grade year and part of 12th I used this laptop (which was about 17 years). I found it pretty fun using such an outdated laptop but it often performed better than the school iPads, none of the websites we needed were usually very intensive and since everything was online and PowerPC Macs have some good backported browsers the only things that ever really made this struggle were Google Slides and videos.
The iBook G4 is still one of my favorite laptops to this day, the keyboard is really comfortable to use (good size keys, good travel, responsive feel), the screen has a pretty good resolution of 1024x768 (4:3) it does get tablet sizes sometimes due to that being the iPad's resolution, but the 4:3 aspect ratio really beats out the 16:9 of the 11" MacBook Airs and most other netbooks, and its got a matte finish that makes it easy to see the screen even in brightly lit places, the final 2005 models even have a multi touch trackpad that has better 2 finger scrolling than just about any Windows laptop I've used older than the Surface Pro 3 (and even a lot of modern cheaper laptops, if you hate trackpads you probably just haven't used an Apple one from 2005 or newer).
Welp, the moral of this story is... I like outdated tech? Not a surprise, I make DS homebrew in 2020
I'm intentionally not proofreading this before posting as I'd probably end up deleting it so have a rambling about the iBook G4
PS: Some recommended software for the iBook G4 on Leopard in 2020:
- Leopard WebKit (Backport of 2018 WebKit to Safari 5, runs really well for most sites)
- TenFourFox (Backport of near current (and still maintained) FireFox to a backport of FireFox 45 ESR, slower than Leopard WebKit but better compatibility)
- Tigerbrew (A fork of Homebrew for PPC, you can install some really new versions of things like git and ssh with it, but usually have to build from source which can take a few hours or even days if you don't have a good computer, I built most of them on my G5 Quad)
- Mail (The default app, just noting it still works great for me, also can be patched with Leopard WebKit if needed)
- TextWrangler (3.5.3) (A pretty good text editor, version 3.5.3 is the last for Leopard PowerPC)
- The Unarchiver (3.9) (If you've used a mac you've probably got this, it can extract just about anything)
- CoRD (0.5.5) (A client for window's RDP)
- TenFourFox (Backport of near current (and still maintained) FireFox to a backport of FireFox 45 ESR, slower than Leopard WebKit but better compatibility)
- Tigerbrew (A fork of Homebrew for PPC, you can install some really new versions of things like git and ssh with it, but usually have to build from source which can take a few hours or even days if you don't have a good computer, I built most of them on my G5 Quad)
- Mail (The default app, just noting it still works great for me, also can be patched with Leopard WebKit if needed)
- TextWrangler (3.5.3) (A pretty good text editor, version 3.5.3 is the last for Leopard PowerPC)
- The Unarchiver (3.9) (If you've used a mac you've probably got this, it can extract just about anything)
- CoRD (0.5.5) (A client for window's RDP)
