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Whenever I hear the word "quasar", I can't help but think of the "QUASAAAR" jingle from the commercials for Quasar TV sets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWhn...
Also time we made electronics this user-serviceable again...
Tektronix TDS 360 showing diagnostic log PASS — Powerup Checks FAIL ++ Cal Initialization (see Error Log) Consult Service Manual for fault isolation.
Tektronix TDS 360 showing various things in the calibration menu as being uncalibrated
The inevitable happened, the Dallas NVRAM battery in my oscilloscope died
17.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ncdu is saying I have 191gb of pictures, is this a lot?
16.11.2025 05:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube advertisement for diapers showing text “up to 100% leak free nights” with text saying “0% still within specification” written below it
Beware. 0% is still in the realm of “up to 100%”
14.11.2025 02:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Someday when I can afford it, I’ll donate the cost of a Windoze 11 Pro license to the Linux distros that have benefited me the most
12.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Having fun with an old alarm system
11.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The beauty of open source for simple things like this
10.11.2025 02:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How cozy is my setup?
02.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One could use one of those VFD cash register displays as something displaying system resource usage by redirecting the abridged output of top(1) to the serial port that it is connected to
31.10.2025 21:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think the best way to run the Windows apps that are so deeply entrenched in Window-land that they cannot run under WINE is to virtualize Windows, Classic Environment style
31.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Push notification from the iPhone App Store “App Store Give This App a Try Learn more about ChatGPT and why you should check it out.”
NO
31.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What customers? Fedora is a community led project, their customers are paying for RHEL, not Fedora.
If the same policy was implemented into RHEL, there would be nothing anyone could do apart from whine and complain since all the development and policymaking happens behind closed doors, like windoze
Hopefully this will be met with en pushback that it will get repealed.
24.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Does your computer have a little pop-out control panel?
24.10.2025 23:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I may have found the best soldering iron timer/temperature controller/digital clock, an old microwave oven control board!
24.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ULINE catalog has this gem in it
24.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Repaired” the control panel on my teacher’s microwave oven by rubbing it with my thumb and applying pressure.
It got the stop button and the +30 seconds button working again, which was enough to prevent the thing from getting thrown out.
Call +1 (808) 335-4363 and you can listen to WWVH live without any interference! (but are limited to 3 minutes of listening time and there is lots of delay, like 30mS)
24.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is my house! 😮
23.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MANUFACTURED BY DOTRONIX INC 160 FIRST ST S.E. NEW BRIGHTON, MN 55112 MADE IN THE USA MODEL NO. DNR27 VIII PART NO. 042870 MFD. DATE JANUARY 2011
Interestingly this #CRT display was made in the USA in 2011!
They still make them, presumably with NOS picture tubes
Currently fixing an IBM Correcting Selectric III, I lost one of the "typeball" control cables in a minor electrical accident, one of them snapped, and the pinion spring got completely ruined.
I'm doing great!
