Joe's Computer Museum

Top of soft drink from Wendy’s showing one of my catchphrases, “BOOP!”

The local Wendy’s customized my drink today. I try to be friendly, and have a few catch phrases I use with certain actions or situations. It shows!

Remember: be nice. You never know what kind of impact you may have on someone’s day, or life.

It would be great if that impact was positive.

Can you prove that one of your direct ancestors was a Canadian citizen? Congratulations, you may well be entitled to Canadian citizenship yourself. Not by immigration, but by registration.

Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

Firewatch is one of the best games I have ever played.

No thoughts, head literally empty.

13/10 anyway. How can you hate that face?

a gray and white mini australian shepherd with icy blue eyes sits in a field of grass with sun shining directly on her. her mouth is open, exposing her pink tongue, and she's wearing a pink bandana. her eyes seem as if they're looking straight past the camera.

Maggie's brain scan is compared to that of a "normal dog." on the left, Maggie's brain cavity is full of white fluid. on the right, another dog has clear brain matter and folds.

the aussie lays in some grass with her front paws spread out. she is staring directly into the camera with her blue eyes. she's older now and seems very content to rest out here in the yard.

A woman discovered her dog had almost no brain after taking her to the vet for a seizure. This is Maggie. She had hydrocephalus, a fluid buildup in the brain cavity that filled 95% of her skull. Low sodium levels kept the disease at bay and allowed her to live to the ripe old age of 12. 13/10

That's what I'm referring to.

I did a quick search today on the UniFi Russia situation.

First three links were to UniFi Community forum posts. All three were removed for breach of community guidelines.

Sounds about right. I mean, it is their pool. They don't want you pissing in it. But it's also a big red flag.

(discord screenshot) "anyone using discord from a desktop pc is verified over 30"

shoutout to @amazingthew.bsky.social for the actual answer to discord adult verification

This is designed to tug on you heartstrings because it's about dogs but Amazon is fully admitting they have a private, nationwide security network that can look for people using AI pattern recognition and the reason they present it like this is to desensitize you to it.

This is dystopian as shit.

This is Millie. She has accurately predicted the winner of the Super Bowl three years running. Also knew Bad Bunny was going to bring out Lady Gaga, but no one bothered to ask her about that. 14/10 (TT: jo_jo177)

Accurate

"what's the difference between your chat protocol and IRC? IRC will still be here in 10 years" continues to be correct for the fourth decade

#BlueSCSI v2026.02.08 - HUGE release
* 16-bit Ultra Wide SCSI
* CD audio S/PDIF/I2S
* Fragmented images are fast now!
* SCA drive bay
* 11.5x BlueSCSI Toolbox speed boost
* SCSI bus timing fixes
* 520-byte sector imaging
* No Arduino deps
* 2287 unit test assertions
& more github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...

you can just do things

I am passing along praise for the great work of @eric.scsi.blue and his team that continue to make the @bluescsi.com a wonder.

I’ve used almost every iteration, and the innovation, documentation, support, and overall attention to detail are superb.

My vintage Macs love their BlueSCSIs!

GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls In the past few weeks, passing the legislation has been a unifying rally cry for Republicans, a welcome distraction from the party’s cratering public opinion polls.

A massive new voter suppression bill could disenfranchise 21 million Americans before the midterms.

The GOP-led campaign to create barriers to voting follows a series of alarming White House statements telegraphing its intent to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections.

You chose the best movie ever for the test, too. Joe is pleased.

Check out this Mega Man 2 intro necktie I did.

The two Macs I will be showing at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal next week. Both feature the Motorola 68030 processor. Both also feature internal BlueSCSI hard drive emulators. #macintosh #apple #retrocomputing #VCFSoCal #bluescsi

the winter enjoyer

That doesn't bother me, though.

What gets me is:
- No communication. They don't say what they see, or confirm they've done what I've asked.
- Not following directions. If I say click next, CLICK NEXT
- No common sense. "I typed my password, do I click Sign In"?

Server admin is so much easier.

Tap the arrow at the top-left of your iPhone screen, above the word Camera
- "There's no arrow there."

Do you see the word Camera?
- "Yes"

What's just above that?
- "There's an arrow there. You want me to click that?"

🙄

An -hour- just to get them to let their Authenticator app scan a QR code.

It's always a good day when you get a new @displacedgamers.bsky.social episode!

PicoIDE CD-ROM IDE ATAPI Emulator

DOS YouTube legend PhilsComputerLab has a pre-release PicoIDE and put it through its paces in optical disc emulation mode in his latest video: youtu.be/KNv3sf-rCAM

image is of a program window within Mac OS 6 of MacPaint. The drawing within the program is a pixelated 1bit rendering of Ethel Cain on a black background with her looking over her shoulder, arm bent and hand resting on her head with her fair flowing toward the right of the composition.

I drew Ethel Cain in MacPaint from 1984 with a 25 year old mouse

Give them another year or two and it'll be about non-trad wives being shown.

Blessed Be...

Not sure if I should be complemented or incensed. :D