Colin sold some stuff at VCF Midwest without even being there, and Steve picked up a hard drive that's probably more useful as a boat anchor.
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After cooling off for a bit I picked up where I left off with the DS Lite I attempted the shell swap on. After reseating the display ribbon cable several times with no luck, I put everything back i...
2025-09-24 01:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Got an hour to kill? Like watching people make repeated mistakes? Well, have I got a video for you...
2025-09-18 23:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of Colin's vintage Mac collection is making its way to VCF Midwest, where Steve has some sneaky plans of the LocalTalk persuasion. Oh, and what happened to Micron Xceed anyway?
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2025-09-04 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything's a gamble these days...with increasingly worse odds.
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2025-08-21 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I picked up a JBL EON One Compact, just to find that it has a glaring design flaw. Turns out fixing it is not only free...but pretty easy?!
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Why does Sonic the Hedgehog games on Nintendo hardware still feel just so...wrong? Oh, and excuse me for a moment, I need to go arm-wrestle my refrigerator.
Intro music by Eric Skiff ( 2025-08-07 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Most people owned one portable CD player, sometimes two if the first one broke. I've owned...considerably more than that.
2025-08-04 22:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post
If you think you've been hearing full-quality audio from your portable CD player...I have some bad news for you.
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Aside from torturing ourselves with vintage computers, Colin and Steve also have fond memories of video games, especially handheld consoles. What was the scene like back in the 90s, and why is Coli...
2025-07-24 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI'm (slowly) working on my next video, in which I do a bit of mythbusting -- do portable CD players with an anti-skip memory buffer actually reduce audio quality? It's something I said in my "porta...
2025-07-03 23:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I periodically volunteer at Free Geek Twin Cities, and here's a look at some of the things I help out with when I'm there.
2025-06-24 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking over the world, one cheap phone faceplate at a time.
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2025-06-19 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Steve went to the swap meet and brought home another ImageWriter, and nobody's surprised.
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2025-06-12 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostLast year I shared a video where I kayaked the "chain of lakes" in Minneapolis. St. Paul has a similar string of lakes linked by channels, which end at Lake Phalen to the south. Here's an abbreviat...
2025-06-09 22:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This Sony TC-WR550Z cassette deck works now, but it sure put up a fight. Hopefully this helps you if you're facing the same repairs!
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I hate messy wiring, and I hate messy wiring in cars even more. Let's install a dashcam using a kit that hopefully doesn't suck.
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Colin finally got sucked into the world of car dashcams, with a neat way to keep the installation from also sucking.
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With the current craziness that is my life and mind these days, my regular video production schedule is, well, not going to be regular for a while. While looking for a part for a project, I decided...
2025-05-19 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A prominent NAS manufacturer makes a serious mistake.
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2025-05-15 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, I got distracted.
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Here's my epis...
2025-05-05 22:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostI got laid off today.
Well, I found out I'm getting laid off. My last day at my current employer is at the end of the month. But they made the news official today.
You may know that I'm...
2025-05-02 21:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Could Phone Watch be coming to an end??!!!
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2025-05-01 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Colin braves Ikea in the name of home improvement while Steve does smart things with his 3D printer.
Intro music by Eric Skiff (2025-04-24 14:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If you have a Mac SE/30 with a dodgy ROM SIMM slot, this option from Kero's Mac Mods is right up your alley.
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Just when we thought Steve's shed troubles couldn't get any worse...
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2025-04-17 14:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The ThinkPad 500 was IBM's first subnotebook. It...wasn't perfect.
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2025-04-14 22:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Silly, useless software; our dumb car stories; and running over extension cords. Is it Friday yet?
Intro music by Eric Skiff ( 2025-04-10 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
VCF East is this weekend, and Steve's going...but does he know what he's bringing?
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2025-04-03 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a good thing I like the SE/30 as much as I do, considering what this one put me through.
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2025-03-31 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post