I'm just realizing this now, but Microsoft put AI, Tabs, a login portal, a 'search with bing' action and text formatting on notepad before a REDO BUTTON? I also like how the primary reason I used notepad (clearing formatting) is now behind a menu option with no hotkey

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

It’s big ball chunky time

Microsoft fumbling the Xbox brand has caused the resale market on Xbox one to drop like a rock. Xbox one is completing its DVR dreams and is now the cheapest way to get 1TB hdds

I slammed my shin against a corner and it became a big bump like I’m a goddamn cartoon character

can't I'm pretty sure I'm loading at least one kernel module from there

Could IKEA please make up their mind on what size imperial bit I would need for a 5mm diameter?

Finally have a workshop of my own instead of sharing the laundry room. I’m so excited. Say hello to my new 3d printing nook

I’m not sure who’s responsible for putting laptop firmware updates inside KDE’s Discover app, but bravo. I can’t imagine how much effort it would have taken to have this functional and stable and “Just Work” ™️ Was a little worried about running Linux on a dual gfx laptop but been smooth sailing 👏

What Remains of Edith Finch The Hedgehog

Idk what is more insane notepad phoning home to determine if you have a valid license?! Or Notepad having a PEGI rating?! www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

This is canon Metroid

First steps in a new project starts working, yay 😊

Don’t worry boss. I sistered the neighbouring joist with some structural drywall.

heard the RAM shortage is getting bad so I've been trying to stock up🤞

Nancy Drew’s first 4 novels and The Little Engine That Could are now public domain. Can’t wait for the crossover slasher flick

Baby Universe (PS1 / Sony Computer Entertainment / 1997)

technology is approaching the optimum ratio of one entire package manage per package

The only valid reason to install 98 plus

A recent Windows 11 update removed by desktop background to display the rotating Microsoft™ approved photos. I've been too lazy to fix it, but it recently gave me this image while I was working in WSL Maybe this is a sign to fully jump over...

Given the current price of ram, maybe we should all get into artisan hand-weaved core-memory again

The past week the subscription button on youtube has been broken, and now they moved where it is so that the shorts button on the side bar is where the old button was so I keep clicking it by accident I'm sure this is entirely an accident and not some scheme to artificially inflate some metrics...

The GR-524 nixie tube is an extremely rare symbol tube made by Rodan-Okaya of Japan. The tube shows the days of the week in abbreviated Kanji. nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…

At a HardOff I caught a glimpse of an oldschool Japanese mechanical typewriter. The Nippon Type PanWriter types in 3 colours and somehow impacts one of the over 2300 glyphs onto the paper after the user manually slides over the rows & columns and presses down to type it. (Zoom in for the details)

I liked complicated systems and in hs I had to pick mechanics or computers and I picked computers I’m still proud of my first year mechanics course where we tore down and inventoried a lawn mower engine. We were graded on how long it ran after assembly and ours was the only one that didn’t stop.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle! (Nice try, coppers!)

“Book” arrived!

I ordered a FireWire architecture book which for some reason is out of print now so had to settle with a used copy from Amazon. Apparently whoever keyed this into the database simply titled the book as "Book" so now I have these omninous messages in my inbox.

*evil villain laugh* 🫷👁️👁️🫸

G'AIME by Tassei Denki. Lightgun game peripheral/console that allows you to use a #lightgun on non-CRT TVs. So beamers too. Only downside is that it only comes with 4 games and it doesn't seem it will allow expansions. The guns use a camera and "AI". Real AI or just so they put it on the box? #namco

Some good news, even if a bit boring! An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle. Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...

Smoke test ✅

do you think you would be better or worse at surviving outdoors than someone 3000 years ago? For me I think better because I watched a lot of youtube where a guy pretends to live outside

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

You know you’re deep in the trenches when cross compiling a Linux kernel is the path of least resistance

Gotta keep Windows Threat Protection on its toes. 🔍🕵️

Found a local retailer that was fire selling FireWire cables. They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it

Lookout football-fields, a new standard of measurement just dropped: mini-DIN

In a sick twist of fate my period-correct FireWire cables are bad and I have to jiggle them the right way to avoid resetting the FireWire bus. Back to waiting for more cables 🫠🫠🫠

When analyzing FireWire packets on a blue and white powermac G3, make sure you use period correct transparent FireWire cables

Anyway, long story short I think it’s finally in a workable position, so I’ll be speeding and driving without a seatbelt in cross country Canada while I wait for more FireWire cables to arrive

I’m never buying a computer from an era before usb boot again. The number of dvd-r coasters I’ve produced is embarrassing Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired

Oh yeah, now we’re gaming. The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9

Lots of room for activities in here

The beast has arrived and is now taking up the majority of my desk space

I'm sorry for judging you firewire, I wasn't aware of your power. Twisted pair differentials in individually shielded shrouds inside a shielded cable. I've seen VGA cables with worse cross-sections

Nobody prepared me for how much a mini-firewire cable looks like a USB cable that was stepped on. This gives me the same feeling nails on a chalk board does, what the hell. Also my new cable I ordered arrived with rust, probably required certified spelunkers to locate my order in the warehouse.

A perplexingly relevant question: Anyone know of someone in the Toronto area looking to part ways with a Power Macintosh G3 blue and white? The FireWire interface in that can operate against the spec, and with the right Linux driver it can dump all traffic. Lots of FireWire research ahead of me.