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  • Yet Another Fun Thing Ruined By Conservatives

    I still mourn the loss of Twitter. It’s not dead (well, the name is, but the service ain’t), but it is one of those things that got ruined by conservatives because clearly conservatives can’t ever be good house guests and not defecate all over whatever space they’re in and make it just worse for everyone.…

  • PSA: If your Apple TV 4K is “bricked” after a tvOS 17 update, it might be your remote.

    …to hopefully save you from contacting Apple and having to deal with that rigamarole… If you took any of the tvOS 17 updates (in my case, 17.2) and found your Apple TV is acting up (bootlooping, freezing at home screen and then restarting, random rebooting), the fix is likely really, really stupid: Your remote is…

  • The Linux Experiment

    Where’s the fun in life if you don’t step outside your comfort zone a bit? For the longest time, I’ve been down on Linux mostly out of spite. I don’t hate the OS as a concept, and have actually run Ubuntu a few times on old hardware just to play with it for a bit.…

  • The G4 Cube, Part II: CUBE_HELL

    This one’s gonna be a doozy. Last we left the Cube, I had some parts on order to try and get the thermals under control within the Cube. Specifically, the thermals with the video card portion, seeing as that was almost completely cut off from the rest of the Cube airflow-wise. My plan first and…

  • The G4 Cube, Part 1 (Origins, Upgrades? And thermals)

    In which Chris attempts to make his Cube do some *serious* sh!t.

  • The Apple TV (First impressions?)

    It’s 2023. The (non-Apple) streaming box market just feels…desolate, in a way. Google TV’s landscape (which is usually what I prefer) feels, again, desolate. The low end of the market is very well served for what it is: You’ve got the $20 Onn streaming box (I own one and for the 1080p TV I have…

  • No Place at the Table

    This has been stewing in my mind for a bit. I’ve written and rewritten and taken notes on this kinda thing multiple times but I think the best way to keep the scope in check is to just keep it simple, and the focus narrow. This is going to get a bit…disjoint and rambly, and…

  • Two Years with the iPhone 13 Pro

    UPDATE: Maybe I shouldn’t have made this post because I totally jinxed it. I didn’t think I was going to be impressed by the iPhone 15s, but as it turns out, I kind of was because it has a lot of quality of life updates for things I use the crap out of. As such,…

  • Clearing the condensate drain on a Haier ESA410N air conditioner

    Kind of an off topic post for me but I hope with this post that I save someone else some time. No pictures, because I was too busy dealing with the absolute deluge of water coming out of this thing when I was servicing it. I deeply apologize for that (and I’m usually pretty good…

  • PowerBook G3 Kanga Part III: Hopefully This is the Last Part

    Update 9/23/23: I am pleased to report that the fix appears to have stuck, and the Kanga is still working flawlessly! So if you have the same issues I do, maybe reflow the VRAM (and do it with an actual soldering iron!) Last we left the Kanga, it was fresh off a reflow attempt that…