Engineer Brains

Engineer Brains

@hhackenbecker.bsky.social

Master tinkerer, retired. Loves: old Macs, cats, humour, SF&F, Star Trek Loathes: politics, sport, Facebook, Google, anything POSIX This might be he/it/oi-you.

964 Followers 509 Following 3,581 Posts Joined Jul 2023
4 days ago

Been there, worn that. Always amazed me how such a tiny thing can produce so much pressure ... the time my first-born got me, the splash-back meant it went *everywhere*.

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5 days ago
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Unboxing the #MacBookNeo Citrus at work, all gather round:
"I've never seen a colour like it," says one.
"Obviously you've never changed the nappy of a nursing three week old baby," says mother of two.
Silence.
"You've totally ruined this for me now," says ex-happy Neo owner.

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6 days ago
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I think I'm going to be violently, copiously sick.

Finder Neo with Clarus on a leash?

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6 days ago
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"The only limit is your imagination."

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1 week ago
Fast and Reliable Video Game Collections | Myrient Experience an unmatched video game archive with fast downloads and no ads.

News just in: Myrient, the server with the largest collections of ROMS & old console titles on the web, is closing at the end of March. myrient.erista.me

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1 week ago
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Could this be Apple's "Fiftieth Anniversary Macintosh"?
(Personally, I don't really care what the FAM ends up looking like but they'd better use the whole 'Macintosh' name.)

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1 month ago
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PSA: New abbreviation to enter common usage: ai;dr

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1 month ago
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Sorry Mr. Beast, but your plan on influencing teens by buying the 'Step' banking app isn't going to work.
"Dad, he's the Elon Musk of Youtubers, I don't want anything to do with that."

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1 month ago

QTP with a trio of awesomeness!

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1 month ago
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Canard! Pato! Anka! Ow!

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1 month ago
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America, you're so screwed.

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1 month ago
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Pretty much.

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1 month ago
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Are yas gonna come quietly, or do I has ta rough yas up!

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1 month ago
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Telstra warns older iPhones may be unable to connect to Triple Zero Customers are advised to delay software updates on affected devices and find alternative ways to communicate if needed.

Australians still sporting an iPhone 8, 8 Plus or iPhone X are advised *NOT* to update to iOS v16.7.13, released Tuesday by Apple.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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1 month ago
A chart from 2023 giving a breakdown of car colours by percentage in the USA. ... then there's this. The Trout, as so named by @nanoraptor.danamania.com

Over three quarters of all cars in America are either white, black, or one of fifty shades of grey in between.
Meanwhile in Australia ...

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1 month ago

PS: Bonus points (and an extra mention in the official acknowledgements when the book comes out) if he can get the sound of an original 400k 'Hippo' drive and an 800k (DD) drive in action reading and ejecting a disk.

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1 month ago
David Pogue Hi all... I need your nerdy help. At one point in "Apple: The First 50 Years," I've written about the "song" of the original Macintosh floppy drive—the different notes made by the stepper motor as...

Calling all floppies, calling all floppies ... David Pogue needs some help. He wants to include an audio file of a Macintosh floppy drive in action, but so far hasn't been able to find anything on the web. Can anyone help? (FB shortlink: tinyurl.com/yevdashe )

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1 month ago
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Khaby Lame Sells Company In $975 Million Deal The equity-driven deal will see Lame becoming a controlling shareholder.

Why you should never EVER subscribe to media influencer channels on YT, TikTok or other services: They can collect AND SELL your personal data.
www.forbes.com/sites/martin...

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1 month ago
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Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency An administrator has been appointed for the brand behind the likes of Maschine, Traktor, Massive and Kontakt, according to reports

Scary news for electronic musicians as one of the best-known names in the business faces closure: www.musicradar.com/music-tech/n...

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1 month ago

Remember when people started putting their iPhones up on FBM/eBay because they still had Fortnite running on them? Same thing's happening again but now they're advertising "Still runs iOS 18", according to a segment on NPR.
When mainstream media goes "iOS 26 sucks" it's really bad.

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1 month ago
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The tough part about improvising a home cinema on the #ISS was finding a spot where everyone would be comfortable ... for varying degrees of comfortable.
"There's not much space out in space!"

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1 month ago
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So you want to work in IT, do you?

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1 month ago
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The built-in battery level display was always a much-appreciated feature, too.

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1 month ago
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Y'know what I miss most on MacBooks?
Socketed RAM & storage?
No, 98% of laptops go to e-waste with the config they shipped with.
Glowing logo in the lid?
Close; it's not a Mac if the logo doesn't glow.
What I miss most is the sleep LED.

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1 month ago
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I herb you people like puns.

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2 months ago
A metal sign that reads:
Did you know that
"Dammit I'm Mad"
spelled backwards is
"Dammit I'm Mad"

Now I do.

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2 months ago
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The latest issue of PALEBOY - The Magazine of Dirty Archaeology - has just hit the rock-stands.

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2 months ago

It won't be long before they unveil Microsoft Copilot Copilot, a service to explain which Copilot-branded product is the one you're actually looking for.

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2 months ago
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a man in a military uniform is holding a clipboard and a light bulb . ALT: a man in a military uniform is holding a clipboard and a light bulb .
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