Notices by Karl Baron (kalleboo@bitbang.social)

@mac84tv D'oh, not again! OK should be fixed now!

I picked up an ImageWriter II for cheap, it was the only one where the auction photos didn't have the error lamp on.

Alas, the belt drive motor is rusted and completely seized. Looks like replacements are also not at all worth it.

It's a shame, this is the only spot in the whole machine with evidence of rust, the rest looks fine!

#MARCHintosh #VintageApple #mb

There may or may not be a another ImageWriter II on #GlobalTalk now 🙈

In lieu of an ImageScribbler card, it's shared via PortShare Pro (thanks Wafflenet) as a shared Printer Port. Download and install PortShare from Blackbird:Essential, New>Virtual Printer, then find the printer on BaroNet, password empty, then use the regular serial ImageWriter or MacPalette driver to print.

My HARD OFF Megathread!

HARD OFF is my favorite store ever. It’s a Japanese chain of tech thrift stores that will buy your junk and resell it. There’s also OFF HOUSE (clothes/household items), the confusingly unrelated BOOK OFF (used books, games and other media), LIQUOR OFF, etc

I’ll start off by posting some overview photos of what kind of stuff you can find there, and then start following up whenever I find something interesting

Let’s go!

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Thrifting #mb

Went to #HARDOFF to pick something up, and ran across this beauty… a #Palm IIIc for $15! Complete with a keyboard, Pilot Pentopia stylus, modem, mobile phone data adapter and a pair of chargers.

The store description said "the display is somewhat dark” but I think the staff just don’t know how to adjust the brightness on a Palm, after long-pressing the power button and adjusting it up it looks gorgeous!

Power and Datebook buttons are stiff. Puffy battery?

#thrifting #pda #RetroComputing

@SuperDicq My favorite is still the “AI” rice cooker that actually just uses a magnet and a spring https://youtu.be/F_HOrMmWoMA

Finally all the parts arrived to build a custom router capable of 10 Gbit to replace the rental ISP router!

The basis for the router is a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny M720q I got off Yahoo! Auctions for $70 with CPU, RAM and NVMe all included.

#mb #homelab #selfhosting #networking

Aaaand there we go! Everything installed in it's place, tidied up and labeled. I got USB-C to DC cables to replace the separate bricks for the ThinkCentre and ONU with a single USB-C PD brick, and tidied up with shorter cables for everything else.

Really happy with how it turned out! The 10 Gbit internet upgrade project is a success!

#homelab #selfhosting #networking

For the past few years I’ve been having a debate internally about if I should stay in #Japan or move abroad with my family (my wife definitely wants to at least have an experience of living outside of Japan).

It’s been a debate because, our family is at the size where we should buy a house, but buying a house basically plants us here financially for life (houses in Japan deprecate like cars, only the land has any value).

I think today, I decided, it’s best to stay here.

I got an SF Symbols update on my Mac and checked what they added, thought to myself "what an odd choice for an icon to add, and they didn't even get it right" for about 10 seconds before it sunk in what the icon was actually supposed to be.

#VintageApple #Lisa #RetroComputing #mb

@SuperDicq You'd think in 2024 you'd just register your plate number

@mac84tv "All I can compare it to is when the shuttle exploded"

This is wild

#japan

@SuperDicq @lanodan The touchscreen worked great with Opera mini!

@SuperDicq @lanodan One of my favorite phones from that era was the Sony Ericsson Aino. A Java feature phone with a touch screen.

@darnell Some of those privacy features are already in Android

In my family we grew up playing this Swedish variant of Monopoly.

Which in hindsight may explain my predeliction for cat girls?

(This was definitely better than the original Monopoly)

@thomasfuchs It's Tim Cook's Newton.

Maybe in 10 year the tech will be here to make it an affordable kick-ass product but right now it's too big, heavy, janky and expensive. But someone is too eager to seem revolutionary before it's ready.

@SuperDicq SPOILERS

@polpo One of those things I regret not picking up when I saw it (at HARD OFF, naturally) even though I would never use it - a calculator that also acts as a USB number pad and trackball, with a send button for the calculator output. The box advertises "pantograph type key switches"

LGR also did a video on another one of these. Why was Canon so obsessed with this concept??