This Does Not Compute

An assortment of hand tools that really shouldn’t be quite as nice as they are

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

A box containing a magnetic phone umbrella. I don’t get it either. Probably why it was in the clearance section.

what?

YouTube video by This Does Not Compute Is your CD player LYING to you?

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

A sad Game Boy Advance with nonfunctional IPS LCD because I’m a goddamned cheapskate.

Well it may not matter now, the IPS screen I bought seems to be defective. Backlight works but nothing on screen. Womp womp.

GBA shell parts. Yellow and magenta fronts, purple and black backs. Not pictured: my disappointment at not having one that’s neon green.

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.

We don’t have those here, but I think it’s intergalactic law that the word “ice” on signs always has to have snow on it

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

I’m not aware of anyone with machines like that which are kept in stock — but there are plenty of folks in the vintage Mac community who take on repair/restoration work if you ship them a machine.

“We’re going to buy Juniper so we don’t have 3 network platforms to support!”

They now have four network platforms to support 🙄

It’s one of those things where once you use Junos, it’s really hard to go back to anything else. But of course the rest of the enterprise network ecosystem all uses Cisco-style CLI, and its limitations are really frustrating.

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

Yep! Meter shows no shorts and the Game Boy works fine now

Bodge wires fixing the broken ribbon connector pins in the previous photo. They’re not my best work but they get the job done. The pin pitch is pretty small!

ezpz

The display ribbon cable connector on a Game Boy Pocket circuit board, with two pins damaged because some idiot has been in here before. (There’s a non-zero chance that idiot was me.)

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

Dude this is amazing

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

Sounds like the state of my brain these days lol

3 RAM SIMMs made into a keychain that, if put in your pocket, will stab you in the balls next to a pair of what are probably RDRAM terminators (and thus have no RAM chips on them) and no doubt will get a bunch of pedantic people to reply “tHoSe ArE rAm TeRmInAtOrS yOu IdIoT!!!!!!11!!” but little do they realize 1) I already know what they are and 2) I don’t give a shit.

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

Apple Watch showing a noise level of 99dB.

And here’s why: Even at the back of the room the opening act is loud. Yeah yeah yeah Apple Watch measurements aren’t accurate but they get you in the ballpark. The headliners will be 2-3 dB louder.

The container for Hearos earplugs. I would have taken a photo of the plugs themselves but I’m wearing them!

One OK Rock marquee at the Armory in Minneapolis.

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 remember when that track was new, it was an under appreciated banger from the start. The crazy stereo hi-hat substitute (that’s the only thing I can think it was meant to be) was the icing on the cake.

YouTube video by This Does Not Compute I kinda hate cassettes now

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

It’s either that or hit it with a hammer

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

Dude you could start one of those “TV for cats” channels lol

Super Mario Odyssey?

what about cheezits?

HELL YEAH FROST
TWO IN A ROW LETS GOOOOOO