Has anyone started selling rolls of a good "AI Slop" sticker that we can start slapping on shitty flyers, menus, etc.? Easily removable but flagging that they should stop.
Steve Lin
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Board member @gamehistoryorg, arcade & pinball enthusiast. Adopt senior pets!
Friends in NYC I might need to ask if you could do me a favor...
Metropolitan Transportation Authority@mta.info · 17h agoWe’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: mta.info/auction
I joined @willsmith.fun to record an episode of the TechPod! We talk about hobbies, collecting, and learning new skills among other things. What's it like to be in the car as we drive an hour to the electronics flea market? This: techpod.content.town/episodes/350...
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Name it JAW5 and merge it with the Fast & Furious universe. Also Jaws walks upright Jabberjaw style
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
I like that the X-Files Lego set exists but I don't need to build it. I will, however, buy the Scully's Lab gift with purchase on the secondary market.
Packed up my games and pins for California Extreme this weekend! I swear Twilight Zone gets heavier every year.
TIL the iomega Zip Drive 'click of death' is due to value engineering out an 85 cent long lead time piece of foam that helped prevent the read/write head from crashing into the disk. It was contagious because a damaged disk inserted into another drive could damage the head on the second drive
Day 3 of running Bazzite on the living room gaming PC and impressed so far. Much more "It just works" than I anticipated.
Long day at the Vintage Computer Festival so will post updates tomorrow. One of my favorite pickups today is this WOPR 1U panel that's perfect for the empty slot on my server rack. It has audio out and plays the droning sound along with the light show. Shall we play a game?
Looking forward to hanging out with fellow vintage computing enjoyers at VCF West this weekend!
Yes, the CD-i 450/550 got its power from an RJ45 jack. Thank you @zaxour.bsky.social for finally addressing this abomination of product design
zaxour 阿宅@zaxour.bsky.social · 5d agoProduct drop! CD-i 450/550 PD is now available! Replace that goofy RJ45 jack in your CD-i 450/550 with a fully internal USB PD compatible power solution! Available at my ko-fi now: ko-fi.com/s/036074c6ed
Cassette Walkman, at least this one, is just a tad too unreliable but I did realize I like having a dedicated offline music player. I'll pick up another cassette player at some point
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Update: Discovered the Workslate was part of the Airwolf set and now even more excited that I have one
Steve Lin@stevelin.bsky.social · last mo.I just spent a few days filling bins for the Electronics Flea next week but when I saw this Convergent Technologies WorkSlate and printer at the antiques faire I couldn't pass it up. It works but even if it didn't I'd keep it for the aesthetic alone!
Fun little project that allows us to see flights in the area and it's a touchscreen so we can dive into flight details. We have ATC playing on a speaker every once in a while and I thought this would be a neat thing to accompany that. Want to make your own? github.com/yashmulgaonk...
Gimmicky shit like this used to be like catnip for me and it's been a long time since I had nerd catnip. (No I'm not going to buy it but I'm glad it exists)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.Street Fighter 6 Zangief Smartphone Holder up for preorder at BBTS ($24.99) buff.ly/0nrIIHL
My favorite bootleg tape was a cam of Pulp Fiction that was *handheld*. The cameraman would laugh and the camera would shake during funny scenes. I lost that tape during a move and I wonder how many copies were ever made.
Andy Baio@andy.baio.net · last wk.Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.
Playing my first Silent Hill game, f, since the first one 27 years ago. This "aaahhh horrible creatures want to kill me!" followed immediately or intermixed with "here's a quaint little slide puzzle" gameplay is taking some adjustment.
Oh dang. There are not one but *two* new FM Towns ODEs! I have a DocBrown in my Marty but glad to see more options available for one of the coolest looking systems ever retrorgb.com/two-new-fm-t...
Two new FM Towns ODEs hit the market in Japan! - RetroRGB
In '80s and '90s Japan, there were several popular home computers that still retain hobbyist fans to this very day. Among these are NEC's PC-88/98, the Sharp X68000/X68030, the MSX, and of course, Fujitsu's FM Towns. The FM Towns was actually the first home computer to ship with a CD-ROM drive as standard, and as
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More bins out than in Things going to happy homes My burden lightened
76ers going to have to do some luxury tax magic to fit Air Bud in there to play next to LeBron
Mike X. Nichols@mikexnichols.bsky.social · last wk.holy shit
Man I don't know how y'all keep up with all of these new marijuana strains
Clearing out bins of systems is reminding me of how cheap storage used to be. I'll pull out a system with an ODE and just sitting in there is a 512GB or 1TB micro SD card.
I'm really proud of how we approach cultural history: we curate, collect, interpret and provide access to it for free online. People ask if we'll open a museum and it's like...why? Museums are wonderful and I love them but we have 100x the impact of a museum at less than 5% of the cost.
Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2w agoNew in our digital archive: We're taking you back to E3 like you've never experienced it. Explore thousands of pages of ephemera and nearly 24 hours of video from the history of the Electronic Entertainment Expo Read more: gamehistory.org/e3-history/
I'm really curious to see what advertisers jump in on this especially since the call to action likely has to be off platform. QR code? Use code "XBOXisDoomed" at checkout?
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w agoXBOX Insiders - "Today, we’re starting to test an ad-supported way to stream select games from your library for a limited time, available to XBOX Insiders." Players will have one hour session limits across supported devices and regions. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
RIP John C. Dvorak. I remember reading his column every month in PC Magazine. This article about the computer enthusiast magazine business from 1984 is pretty wild, especially the quoted salaries.
Harry McCracken@harrymccracken.com · 2w agoI’m working on an article on John C. Dvorak, the king of computer magazine columnists—RIP—but in the interim, here he is from February 1984 on Macworld and computer magazines in general.
