Two phrases that would never be in the same sentence are "Dell Optiplex" and "Gaming PC". Also this person obviously doesn't understand what a sleeper is - the contents are stock and unsurprising.

Whoops, I missed my chance to make the “640% should be enough for everybody” joke. But it’s obviously not enough because the PicoIDE campaign keeps going. 6 days left! I’m blown away by how far it’s come. BTW the last update I posted brought even more people with weird systems out of the woodwork!

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Accidentally bought an untested nForce 790i SLI board. All my stuff is stored away at the moment so I can't see if it works but 😍😍😍

Oh, you're woke? Well I'm woke MMX.

I picked up this clear Sun SPARCstation LX a couple weeks ago. I was told that it was a special machine used for trade shows. Let's take it apart, back up its hard drive with BlueSCSI initiator mode, and start recapping the power supply. Saturday noon EST. youtube.com/live/W6tjUSo...

Today on Wordle I scored Tetris. Wordle 1,670 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I gotta stop buying 3dfx Voodoo 2s 😬

people are posting a lot of things about ICE agents right now that are true for All Cops

If you're in the UK and have Facebook, a woman is giving away her late father's PDP-8/L based in Bristol. Schematics included. www.facebook.com/share/p/1A95...

When your amp/mixer starts playing up and you decide to remove all the faders. I don't trust previous me's soldering. And the board is super clean now. My pocket hurts though as quite a bit of wick was needed. Took over an hour.

Not sure how this didn't get uploaded to YouTube before.. but hey.. it'll be a good start to kick off NYE at least! youtu.be/4E26sVFxCUo?...

Today in "tech items that were awesome 20 years ago but not so much today" we have this handy little adaptor for the iPod that allowed you to charge it and use line-out at the same time. Now I know that most docks also did that, but they're not very ergonomic when you're a DJ.

You know you're a collector when you buy something that is more interesting than useful. EISA fibre channel network card by Microdyne. Quirky AF.

A side effect of Christmas is that I get a computer upgrade. Currently my server is a Phenom X6 1055T from 2010, which is a great computer but is a little old now TBF. 😅 My youngest got a laptop, so I get their i7 4790K (bought 2nd-hand last year) which is, itself, 11 years old.

So my wife is officially into retro gaming now as I got her a PS2 for Christmas! 🤣 One of her favourite games of all time is Champions of Norrath (the only game she's ever completed), which is platform-locked so it was the only way! (My PS3 is not backwards-compatible and they're hard to find.)

"We have the coolest handheld, it's made by a drone that killed an entire Palestinian family!"

I don't think it's any surprise that one of my favourite games of all time is Worms, when the first two games I played on PC were Lemmings and GORILLA.BAS.

CMYK colour matches all done.

Teaching my home-educated kid angles and decided they're quite abstract. Time for an applied situation!

Check out this incredible little CRT TV I found in a charity shop today. 11" tube, and it's in pretty bad shape. Reckon I can fix it up though! Runs on 12V and has a connection for external antenna. It's adorable!

The Sony PSP (2004) is now as old as the Nintendo Entertainment System (1983) was when the PSP was released.

Holy shit it's some sort of proto-Vaio!

Tomorrow Angry Birds will be as old as Doom was when Angry Birds was released.

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement. I'm still broke though, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Kylo Ren, drawn ✍️ by me in pastel and chalk on black paper. 2016. Size A1? It’s currently sitting in my shed unloved. And shush, Kylo is one of my favourite characters! 😅 #TillysArt

The shit I end up using coding for. 🤣 Asked the family what I should add to the Plex server and my wife came back with "Nic Cage films". I wanted to make a list I could verify with her and I wasn't typing that out from IMDB. Copied and pasted the text into a CSV then cleaned it up with Python.

Watching Star Trek TNG with my teen kid and I see this scene in 'Q Who' (S02E16). Pretty sure those are 5.25" floppy drives. 🤣

Just found out that my Hercules DJ Console (the first DJ Console ever) works under Windows 10 in Traktor Pro. 🤣

Was looking through my Amazon order history and the first non-book I bought from there was this 'L'espion' digital camera by Digital Dream in 2002. 0.1 megapixel and before cameras were included in phones. The first phone I remember with such a feature was an add-on for the Sony Ericsson T68.

Merry Christmas all you retro weirdos.

The number of times I've shut an old PC down late at night when tired then come downstairs to find this screen.

What a great headline

Today's spicy pillow is this HP laptop battery. 🤣

If the new Gabe Cube is considered a 9th-gen console, I predict the next iteration will out-sell everything else in the 10th generation.

Work on the next LGR space begins! Looking forward to a much bigger and more open place to create in 2026. So ready to say goodbye to storage units after renting for ten years 😩

Fuck John Carmack.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Me: "I'll use Ethernet to transfer these files to Windows 3.11, the transfer rate will be quicker." The transfer rate:

A little quiz for all you old nerds. Q. The hard drive is not recognised in a 386-class computer. You begin troubleshooting by replacing the cable but you only have a modern 80-conductor cable available. What is the mechanical issue that is likely to prevent you from using this cable?

FFS 😭

Current status.

Half Life 2 (2004) is now as old as the Star Wars arcade game (1983) was when Half Life 2 came out.

Flower Power G4 Tower

1/ I've never liked the RTS genre. I happened to play Dune II for the first time recently and really enjoyed it so thought maybe I was being irrational. I like the way it's set up as sequential missions of increasing length and complexity. But I realised why I don't like RTS: there's no chill.

Trans woman here. Out to society for over 7 years. Working at the biggest Spaceport on the planet for almost 5 years. Everyone know I'm trans. In a meeting this morning with some very high level types, on preps for Artemis II. They call me ma'am. Use she & her. Acceptance isn't that hard.

Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com

Every time someone describes a Dell system as a "gaming PC", a component in an actual gaming PC dies.

It's not just Polymatt's ideas that make him a genius, it's also his attitude. He demonstrates a methodology that is centred around the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. The result is that the 'unsaveable' was saved. Incredible.