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A black computer motherboard, with well-spaced copper traces and generous capacitor pads

Also, easily one of the most beautiful motherboards I have seen. And the wide trace spacing, generous pad area, and well thought-out placement means you are much less likely to damage nearby components. This was just a joy to work on!

A black NeXTstation pizzabox computer sitting under a matching gigantic 21"CRT. The monitor is showing a NeXTstep workspace with a color Mandelbrot fractal and some windows. The speaker, keyboard, and mouse are off to the side. In the background, a Quadra 700 with a Macintosh Portrait Monitor are visible.

The NeXTstation is up and running! It is in phenomenal condition - even the battery still had 2.6V left (down from 3.0V). What an interesting and opinionated machine - they seem to have had some very clear ideas about how they wanted these to be used.

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I bought a NeXT - they are Colossal!

This is how I felt when I thought "Wow, I've been using macs for 27 years! That's ages!" and then I realized it's actually THIRTYseven

There's a new 68k client in development! macintoshgarden.org/apps/hotstuff

some absolute mensch posting flax in the comments mega.nz/folder/bJYmx...

The trains need to run on time!

I'm watching The Ruins (2008) now because of this!

It was named that way for SEx reasons

Here - had to run on a Power Macintosh 6100, it won't run in emulation. You have a "parry" and an "attack" (and throw), the "parry" is strong enough to stop the poke, but not the swing!

Yep, and the short range one is blockable! I'll see if I can record a video in a bit 😄

This is a neat idea - in Prince of Destruction, the guards carry halberds which do huge damage when they swing but switch the weapon round to do a poke with the staff end when you get close. Unfortunately there isn't much video available so I can't dig up a reference right now!

A giant pile of various spices. Among them are regular sized sticks of cinnamon. Dwarfing these is a pair of cinnamon sticks the size of bookshelves

Constructing my delicious broth out of cinnamon planks

This is one of the reasons I'm so into retromacs - an actual Community of enthusiasts figuring stuff out and freely sharing knowledge and excitement with each other. And the focus is squarely on Doing, not Consuming. It rules and I hope everyone can find a hobby!

A pickup truck near a gravel road theough a forest. The pickup truck is comprised of parts from several different cars, and is yellow and white. The bed has plank walls. The wheels are FAT!

A pickup truck from rural Norway

A picture of the interior of a Norwegian voting booth. There are twenty-one different voting slips to pick between, including a blank option.

I voted! Once again, I'm grateful to live in a society where we don't do "first past the post" winner takes all results. There's 21 options!

I have to assume that this is how the idea came about - someone rolling a billiard ball around on a pool table and thinking "damn that's smooth!"

Depends what the "job to be done" is - staying in touch is very different than image-first posting and honestly I didn't find a replacement, I just left. I miss how taking and posting pictures made me pay more attention to the world around me!

YouTube video by Titus Jones GIRLS ON PARADE (RATM vs. Kesha vs. Megan Thee Stallion vs. Rihanna vs. Kelis) (Mashup)

This and DragulAPT are probably in my top three mashups this year m.youtube.com/watch?v=qb8K...

This your first day here? Lurk moar

One gamedev-relevant example is texture/material processing and rendering, esp. if targeting lower end systems with GPU limitations

Same, we just use Noilly. I have also used a 50/50 mix of martini/dry martini. Lol I love that "what have I been doing?" realization when he tastes it 😄

I saved the video! Hopefully this works...

His Frozen Martini also a winner considering taste (great) vs effort (negligible)

Huge boon to people into retrocomputers as well! Replacements for destroyed or missing plastics, custom mounts and brackets for new power supplies and PCBs, all freely and happily shared in the community.

A yellowed Macintosh SE/30 seen from behind. The PDS slot cover has been removed, the SCSI ribbon has been pulled through the slot, and a BlueSCSI has been attached. It kind of looks like the computer has dropped its guts out of its butt, and is turned away because it is ashamed.

Sometimes when you're fixing up an old compact Mac, it's best to run them in the extremely undignified "Prolapse Mode"

I can tell you right away that Batocera Linux, while really promising, is waaay to demanding for this poor thing 😅 so Windows XP is the most likely outcome.