Spotted some server fans on the ol' Millennium Falcon. Lots of random plumbing parts too! Love full-scale kitbashing

clippy appreciation post

Hey look, I found the save icon! 💾

You can DIY upgrade the M4 Pro Mac mini's internal SSD to 4TB—for almost half Apple's upgrade pricing (but still 3x what normal M.2 NVMe SSDs cost 🙄) How does that compare to external Thunderbolt 5 storage? A video:

Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

We should have mandatory Internet outage times every month, like Tornado drills but for exposing bad IoT devices and software phoning home.

Seeing reports that Iran has an Internet blackout, and possibly US or other countries are jamming GPS... Turns some of my own interest in mesh networks, radio, P2P self-hosted stuff, and anti-jamming PNT solutions a little less academic :/

That can't be good... Help me find the source of the mysterious ticking noise!

GitHub

Find the source of the Mysterious Ticking Noise in the Apple II PSU · Issue #15 · geerlingguy/retro-computers

There seems to be a mysterious ticking noise coming from inside the Apple II PSU which we recently re-capped (it had been running fine for at least...

I don't know how many more rabbit holes I can go down, but I'm about to become a retro Mac 'Tuber lol

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...).

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated) | Jeff Geerling