Due to difficulty doing my work, I've decided to offer my time in exchange for pay. I can teach electronics theory, give open Q&A sessions, and help with others' projects. I need to move soon and cannot afford it, so I'm hoping a few people will hire me. Feel free to DM if interested. Price TBD.

Remember when I did my bedroom reno two years back and I strictly said that you should *never* do what I was doing and use generic corrugated foam panels for acoustic insulation because they pose a serious fire risk? This is why. Only use foam that resists ignition. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was going to be a bit more celebratory today with getting the last video of the year finished and stuff, then it got dropped on me pretty hard this morning that over the weekend we lost an icon in the world of tech reporting. 😔 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

Supposedly I have to get a video done and edited tonight and live by tomorrow. I’m so excited! (O)_(o)

RE-PC's SoDo store has a bathroom with this cathedral sized awkwardness for one vase and a sink.

My other Christmas present arrived. Spare parts videophone (I needed a replacement LCD/backlight assembly to repair another unit and this was the cheapest thing on eBay)

Have I ever mentioned how much I love the Apricot? :v

Come hell or high water, I'm going to VCF Montreal. I'm just not going to book a *35 hour* flight to make it happen. x_X

Every year I'm guilty of buying my own Christmas presents, because nobody else knew of or where to find some obscure IBM retail computer from the early 90's to which seemingly does not exist on the internet until now. IBM 4612 SurePoint Mobile computer. Yes, it's just a "Penabled" 486 DOS tablet.

I'm happy to hear that one of the channel's former sponsors has been able to work on and complete his childhood dream of archiving the ReBoot series. It's been fun hearing about his plan of action going back 15 years and here he is now with his name on this. Well done Mark! 🎉 youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8

Hmm, the bad kind of fuzzies.

Okay, that’s something I never want to try desoldering again. t(.o.t)

Woah so it really DOES exist! O_O The last time I saw one of these I was researching the Optimus Maximus keyboard before it was released (that was 20 years ago??) and never saw it again but I swore it was not a fever dream.

For tomorrow's video, I've had people saying I'm talking too much from Wikipedia, so lets spend 25 minutes saying nothing at all and doing something you won't find on a website.

The post office does not allow you to stick a QR on one side of an ice cube-sized cardboard box and ship that. Apparently the box has to be big enough to fit the 4" x 6" sized stick-on label. this makes me immeasurably sad. :(

Les billets pour le VCF Montréal sont en vente dès maintenant! / VCF Montreal tickets on sale now! events.humanitix.com/vcfmontreal2...

Now THAT is an answering machine! o:

What I have spent my weekend doing instead of being a functional component of society.

Twice now in the last 12 hours has someone mentioned Nebraska and my brain can only engage into making me want a Runza.

[Quietly slips an extra video into the queue that goes live in 10 minutes]

Good morning #Vancouver! Good morning #BritishColumbia! On this day in 1985 you woke up to a new sight to the suburban skyline, a new way to travel around and free rides for its first day in operation after arriving on-time and under-budget as an early present. Happy 40th birthday to the #SkyTrain!🥳

The paint as dried. The signage has been hung. The floors have been swept. The lights are on. "Premier Bennett. The computer is awaiting your instructions, sir."

New blog post! As everyone knows, the Commodore 64 likes to get sick and die. How many C64 boards in a free pile can we fix in three hours? #commodore64 #c64 #retrocomputing #itsthepla #itsnotthepla www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/09/c...

I love coming home to stuff like this. At least video encoding on the IOS app isn’t broken again.

The Eagle has decided it’s a C64 racecar. (It’s a bad diode in the alternator 😒)

If during the video yesterday you asked what was up with the TEST sticker, I'll explain. Most of my GRiD's came from one lot in California this summer. The seller had it listed for a while and received offers, but was not interested in shipping 80lbs of computers and nobody wanted to drive there.

No less than three people today have spoken to me that they are disgusted I have never watched the Alien franchise. :v

For tomorrow's video, we're talking DOS, we're talking laptops. We're going to make the whole month about the best laptop from the 80's.

Ooooh! I wonder if my NDA lets me talk about what’s in the box or if I gotta wait a few more years? 🤪

Hits a little bit differently than the THX bumper.

Alright folks it's that time of year again! Like tradition, for the next three weeks I'll be collecting your questions and the top 20 of them I'll answer them in my annual Year-End Review. DM me, IRC me or leave a message here and of course, if you want to email me, follow the instructions below!

Every time the tv goes down, Telus asks me to go into the other room and reboot the router. Time to streamline the process.

I only have video of the iPhone test, but here is @celgen.org coming in on my side... 2000mi away!

Since @averyredbox.bsky.social currently has the other Visitel unit back in the MidWest that I bought during the show and I have mine out tonight we tried testing a picture call over VoIP and it worked!

It's official! We can now announce where our new location will be: 7681 S 180th Street in Kent, WA! We will be opening at our new location on Monday, December 15th! The new location is approximately 1.3 mi away from our current location so it should be easy to find us! We hope to see you there.

TechTangents just released a really neat follow-up video to his retrobriting attempts from ten years ago and how well it held up. I've never been a fan of it and I suspected his results for a while, looking at other people's work but it's nice he went and summarized it. youtu.be/_n_WpjseCXA

Took a side trip to a vintage computing landmark! Interesting Places - RE-PC in Seattle Washington! youtu.be/bI2vBUrq9CA

"The miracle mineral"

With pins this expensive, recycling used ones is a requirement.

Have this and good night.

It is trying to (and failing) to snow. Come on, I know you can do better than that. :u

In case anyone is wondering if after the teardown stream yesterday the motor was still gonna work after when reassembled, yes it does!

Here are better photos of the front and rear spindle bearings on a Series 30 Diablo disk drive. Front: FAFNIR M9106PP Rear: NACHI 6001NK

I think what I might try and do later today (I'm currently doing laundry) is I'm going to run a stream. Probably around 2pm Pacific Time. No idea how this is going to work out. I'm going to be experimenting a bit with setup. I might not even see the chat window. Stay tuned for updates in here.

Boy am I happy to get this repaired and buttoned back up after buying it at VCF MidWest!

For tomorrow's video, We're going to try and not get lost, again.

Passed the Smoke Test, failed the Screech Test.

Repairing a part, only to find the plastic is warped.

“Let me tell how we will solve the Hair Physics problem….”