As an avid #retrocomputing collector I have amassed an absurd number of cables and almost every single one of them is a mess. I look at the various storage containers and despair. Tito posted a short video explaining his process to straighten them! #tech #howto #gadgets www.youtube.com/watch

I’ve long been a small gadget geek, and I bought an #Atari Lynx II, #Sega #GameGear and #Nomad before I ever got my first #Nintendo GameBoy (a Pocket, btw). This video shows the history of today’s ARM with the first home computers. #retrocomputing #videogames www.youtube.com/watch

Well, this is rather fascinating! Some mad genius hacked a Nokia Lumia 1020 to run #Apple’s #iOS for #iPhone. The trick? Inside the Lumia is an iPhone SE 3!! Still pretty damned cool, if I do say so myself. #retrocomputing #hardwarehacks #tech www.macworld.com/article/2…

I’m not familiar with the MSX system. Not many Westerners are as it was primarily a Japanese home computer standard that started in 1983 and ended ten years later. This, like the Book 8088 and Pocket 386 before it, does look cool, though. #tech #retrocomputing liliputing.com/msxbook-i…

Oh snap! A company called Arcooda is making 29.3" 4:3 1-to-1 arcade cabinet LCD display replacements!!?? WOW!!! It’s a short video, but it’s all the info you need in just over a minute. #videogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #arcades www.youtube.com/watch

Oh wow! Remember this crazy Sony thing during the UMPC era? Someone is working on a drop-in replacement motherboard that will upgrade it to a modern CPU so it can be used to fix broken devices or, in their words, “drag this classic handheld into the modern era.” #retrocomputing www.reddit.com/r/umpc/co…

Things you can do instead of watching America being peacefully handed over to a criminal - Inauguration Special 2025

Don’t watch the news today since all they’ll be talking about is how great and normal it is to just hand an entire country over to a criminal in the name of a democracy that’s been utterly broken and shreaded. If that leaves you unsure of what to do instead, here are some suggestions:

  • Listen to some music. I’ve been sharing my album plays, and here’s a list of them that I refresh a few times a week. tylerknowsnothing.com/nothing-m…
  • Go for a walk
  • Spend time with friends
  • Play a game like a board game, video games, or get into table-top role-playing games (TTRPG), or even just a few dozen rounds of poker
  • Read a book like Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, many of which are murder mysteries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robo…
  • Nap in a patch of sunlight or next to a warming fire with your kids and/or pets
  • Bake something like biscuits or pie or some nice, big potatoes and stuff them with cheese, bacon, sour cream, and chives, or whatever you like
  • Help out at your local homeless shelter or donate some old clothes to families in need
  • If you can afford it, slap a few hundred bucks on a gift card, go to that store, and pay for everyone until it runs out
  • Stop and smell some roses
  • Watch a movie or three like The Wild Robot (2024 on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Prime and more)
  • Write something nice on a pad of paper about nice and/or hopeful for yourself or someone you like
  • Get out an old computer and install Linux Mint and engage in some joyful technological discovery. linuxmint.com
  • Go out on a thrift shop crawl in your local area and buy some old things to give them a new home

And if you must watch TV, then allow me to suggest one of the single most joyful and affirming shows ever made;l Netflix’s Somebody Feed Phil. You will not regret it. Well, you’ll regret having trouble eating the food Phil eats, unless you live in one of the cities he’s covered.

Feel free to submit your own lists of things to do other than watch the news today. #animation #comics #manga #film #movies #linux #music #retrocomputing #humanrights #civilrights #scifi #tech #videogames #writing

I thought we’d exhausted all of the “platforms” #Doom could run on, even the truly bizarre ones, like a pregnancy test, the MacBook Pro Touchbar, or an ATM. Guess not, since someone has now made the iconic first-person shooter run in… of all things… a #PDF. #tech #videogames #retrogaming arstechnica.com/gaming/20…

Another fantastic video from Tito at Macho Nacho who showcases and reviews #retrogaming mods for a wide range of portable and console #videogames systems. Here he builds the #Playstation Placeable consolizer for the legendary #PSP that turns it into a tiny PS2-alike. I miss my PSP :( #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch

Wow! I’m short on words, but I’m simply blown away by designer Kevin Noki’s functional recreation of Harmut Esslinger’s #Apple Flatmac design, a prototype developed by Esslinger’s Frog Design, the firm that handled Apple’s iconic industrial design language. It is simply astonishing. NOTE: If you just want to see it in action, jump to 41:24. #retrocomputing #Macintosh #MacClassic youtu.be/Grd_a4oi7…