This album is an absolute bop open.spotify.com/album/4pg7Me...

I have a few items from my collection for sale at VCF Midwest this weekend! My friend Steve will have these at his table, located near other awesome folks like MacEffects, @museumjoe.bsky.social and @bluescsi.com along with a few stickers!

While I’m sadly unable to make it to VCF Midwest this weekend, a portion of my vintage Mac collection will be there…and it’s for sale! More details soon!

It’s been a while — here’s your weekend moment of zen.

@connectionsmuseum.bsky.social I know y’all focus on CO gear but any interest in an 80s PBX?

I picked up a JBL speaker that works really well except for one design flaw: the power button breaks off! Let’s take a look at fixing it (for free!) and some other interesting secrets that lie within… youtu.be/mTApvqVAlw4

IDK what’s weirder about this iMac, that it’s an Intel model with USB-C and a 1080p screen, or that in 2020 it has “think different” on the box

“I just cut this keyboard in half!”

Got this from Redbubble today. So instead of making $2 per t-shirt, now I’ll only make $1. And if I bumped up the margin to make $2 again, they’ll just take 50% of that too. And this is all on top of the profit they’re making from producing the merch to begin with. Am I understanding this right?

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

NGL for what it is, Daiso’s tool section kinda slaps

what?

Out of curiosity, I went on a deep dive about how portable CD players worked — and was surprised at what I found. New video! youtu.be/IE-yWfkWv_A

Which combo of front and back looks best? (I wish Bluesky had polls.)

You can tell you’re in your midlife crisis when you learn about the Honda Navi and have an uncontrollable urge to buy one

Anyone have an *original* red Play it Loud DMG battery cover in their parts bin they’re willing to sell? I’d rather not buy a new reproduction one since the colors never quite match.

Does anyone know somebody who works on the macOS CoreAudio team? I found an interesting bug when playing back stereo IMA-ADPCM files.

Pouring one out for Juniper Networks this morning, yet another victim of Hewlett-Packard. They were the last good networking vendor out there.

gee I wonder why this game boy screen doesn’t work

Went to Home Depot yesterday and they were playing TLC in the store. Part of me is like “oh great now I’m old enough to be part of the demographic Home Depot caters to” but the other part is all HELL YES FINALLY SOME GOOD MUSIC

Choose your fighter: the most obnoxious keychain ever, or RAM without any RAM on it.

Every time I go to a concert it’s time to remind everyone that hearing conservation is important. Buy good earplugs and wear them!!!

I’ve been screwing around with cassette decks again — and while fixing this one wasn’t fun or pretty, I finally figured out a problem that’s been bothering me for a while! youtu.be/KMWHCQaZm8Q

c’mon digikey get yer shit together, do you need to replace the capacitors in your servers or something? Why is the site so broken rn

HELL YEAH FROST TWO IN A ROW LETS GOOOOOO

There’s your weekend moment of zen.

Along those same lines: Shouldn’t they have told me this, like, last year?

Why in the hell did Spotify remove the spacebar as a shortcut for play/pause on the desktop app?

SimCity 2000 is my favorite video game, so I put together what I consider the ultimate retro setup for playing it…and kinda got distracted. New video! youtu.be/HlUHWt1OQv4

Difficult problems sometimes require creative solutions…and this new product from @kaykoba.bsky.social is a game-changer if you have a cranky Mac SE/30. Let’s check it out! youtu.be/7N--GGi32Yw

Advance to the next frame when the cassette tape beeps.

IBM’s first ThinkPad subnotebook was innovative…but surprisingly flawed. Can I figure out how to fix Big Blue’s mistake? youtu.be/piGrQ62Re1o

Here’s your weekend moment of zen.

This show went way harder than it needed to

When it comes to restoring vintage computers, sometimes things seem too easy. I learned the hard way to never let your guard down. What happened? Check out my newest video to find out!

It says a lot about how Apple is neglecting its professional software products when its most popular show is edited on Media Composer instead of Final Cut. www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Random hot take: Oooh…On the TLC Tip is a better album than CrazySexyCool.

Tablet PCs have been around for longer than you might realize — but they were often pretty clunky to use. Let’s take a look at a pair of them from the 2000s that are…actually kinda good?! youtu.be/_lnjecaTfGE

@simonbs.dev a small request/suggestion: I’d love to see chili peppers and cacti as bulb shape options in Festivitas. (Being able to mix bulb shapes in a string of lights would be pretty fun too!)

I restored a whole bunch of PowerBooks so you don’t have to. youtu.be/6j3huaGqSkM

I wanted to check out a vintage computer series I’d never used before. It did not make a good first impression. youtu.be/Q3YJYzZicg4

@thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social I have a late 2003 PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15” that I want to get working again. It won't charge or power on and shows a dark orange ring when plugged in. I replaced the DC board a while back but the issue came back. Can anyone give me pointers on how to fix this?

this might be why the fan has been a bit louder than usual

In the mid-1990s, Apple licensed the Mac OS so other manufacturers could make Mac clones. Motorola signed on…then got a bit carried away. New video! youtu.be/p_MZXra9F3w

⚡☎️ If you’re in the NYC area, please consider seeing my partner's play: “U ARE THE DREAM” playing now through February 1st in Brooklyn! 💾💿 It has everything - AOL chat rooms, ewaste from my garage and amazing actors! Tickets available here: ci.ovationtix.com/122/producti... 🔗 Please share! 😍

Here’s the answer from yesterday: It’s a power adapter for an LCD monitor. Also, based on the replies damn are a lot of you thirsty lol

I’ve been exploring the early Celeron processor overclocking scene from the last 90s, but kept hitting roadblocks. So I tried a different approach — would I finally be able to pull off the ultimate in shenanigans? New video! youtu.be/aVTZ5NC0ng0

Well shit…Sony is ending MiniDisc media production. www.sony.jp/rec-media/in...