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freehours9

@freehours9@bitbang.social

📍 #Minnesota
💼 #WordPress #IT
💻 #Apple #Macintosh #Macmini #Performa #Backup
💾 #VintageApple #VintageMac
🚗 #ElectricVehicles
☀️ #Solar
🖖 #StarTrek #FriendsOfDeSoto #GreatestGen #GreatestTrek
🐶 #Dogs #ShihTzu

Profile Photo is a classic Mac OS icon I created with ResEdit in 1996 of an Apple Macintosh Performa 476.

Banner Photo was taken in 1995 of my childhood wood computer desk with Performa 476 (out of frame) with Apple monitor and Apple StyleWriter II.

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freehours9, to random
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My custom icons from 1996 built with ResEdit. I’m sure at the time I had hopes to one day work for @Iconfactory

erl, to random
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Why don’t dentists give toys anymore? When I was six I had so many slinkies so idk how they were supposed to incentivize good hygiene. Now I have no slinkies and I’d gladly floss five times a day for a slinky

freehours9,
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@erl Yes! I swear I remember mine having candy in there too, which is hilarious.

They also had a kids tooth chair.

That dentist flossed your teeth a little too aggressively, which I’m sure affected me long after and made me not want to floss.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Having a charge-the-collection day. Every time I do this iPod I forget it's a HD based machine until partway through it fires up the drive with a noise that sounds like the ones that early morning huntsman spiders make when they click to each other on the walls.

freehours9,
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@NanoRaptor I always remember how in awe I was about the 1st gen iPod’s advertised 20 minute skip protection, coming from my portable CD player.

freehours9, to random
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Apple should make this an interactive widget.

NanoRaptor, to random
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20,000 followers! I would like to thank everyone for helping make this dream come true, I've wanted 20,000 followers on mastodon since I was six years old.

You're all gems.

freehours9,
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@NanoRaptor lol, ok good I guess. I think i often reply quickly with my dorky jokes and regret it later thinking it will be taken the wrong way.

freehours9,
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@NanoRaptor Ugh, I deleted my lame joke reply if you saw it and if you didn’t, nevermind.

freehours9, to random
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I just added my two icon sets from 1996 to Macintosh Garden to download.

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/peters-icons-vol-1

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/peters-computer-icons-vol-1 https://bitbang.social/@freehours9/110380358207025964

freehours9, to random
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My necktie from my first IT job in 2003. Look at all those insecure URLs.

vga256, to random
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to the russian shithead who stole my #328747 account 20 years ago: icq is shutting down in one month

https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows

😆

freehours9,
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@vga256 Uh oh!

freehours9,
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@vga256 Searching around old personal sites for my ICQ number. Did you ever have an imood account? Apparently still around! http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=petebocken@att.net

NanoRaptor, to random
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Macintosh Performa 6400.

freehours9,
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@garthbeagle @likesoldmacs @NanoRaptor Indeed. Had to get mine replaced. Seems like so many have bad feelings about the 6400 (and the Performa line in general). My first two Mac’s were the 476 and 6400 and I loved them both. They served me well as a teen. I definitely did every upgrade that was supported on the 6400, so I made it last.

freehours9,
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@NanoRaptor @garthbeagle @likesoldmacs Ya, I wouldn’t say I really thought of the subwoofer as adding anything meaningful to the audio experience.

freehours9,
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@NanoRaptor @garthbeagle @likesoldmacs Omg, the MDD speaker! I remember from my IT days that people would put a sticker over them to dampen them.

freehours9,
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@garthbeagle @NanoRaptor @likesoldmacs lol, yes it was. I’m sure my cat never appreciated that.

bonniegrrl, to random
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Age yourself with a store.
📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

freehours9,
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@bonniegrrl And B. Dalton in the same mall. Had to hit both.

siracusa, to random
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Apple built a fake house for HomeKit…and a fake train car for this video?

freehours9,
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@Shellyk @siracusa Was waiting for someone to shush them in the library. They should take this into a meeting room.

ashley, to random
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friday I'm in love / lovecats combo

freehours9,
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@ashley Another live album I forgot about. I’ve never really liked listening to live albums. Or I guess more importantly, I think I never really gave them a chance, but I’m enjoying these. Finally seeing The Cure live 8 years ago was definitely a more emotional experience than I thought it was going to be. https://open.spotify.com/album/0oi8Xnmhy3lMsSlpeoXvmP?si=3xWy05CPS4uGH3Fr9STDwg

caseyliss, to random

https://www.caseyliss.com/2024/3/27/tailscale

RE: https://www.threads.net/@shanselman/post/C6aXsGwvGP-

freehours9,
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@caseyliss Finally started to actually look at Tailscale. It sounds like if you want to not just have your Plex server exposed to the internet and instead put it on Tailscale, you’d also need all your Plex friends that access your Plex libraries on Tailscale as well, correct? Is this what you are doing? I’m worried about the family/friends frustrations and inevitable (increased) IT support. Also, none of my Plex friends use Apple TV, so can’t utilize the Apple TV Tailscale app.

vga256, (edited ) to hosting
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stablehost just announced a unilateral 60% price hike to all of their customers

after 7+ years of service, i'm done.

i've been waiting for an excuse to dump my hosting with them, and it's finally here 🥂

freehours9,
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@vga256

avail, to random
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Just thought to myself 'I'm looking forward to using my new toothbrush later'.

freehours9,
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@avail Does it have Bluetooth?? Also, don’t forget to floss!

freehours9,
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@avail I get it now 😉

freehours9,
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@avail Uhh what?

freehours9, to random
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@siracusa in the Home app or Control Center, you just tap the icon to toggle on/off and not adjust dimming. Tapping anywhere else on a dimmable button will open the dimming controls.

kate, to random
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A stranger called me “stylish” today, which I feel vindicates my refusal to dress appropriately for the weather and ground conditions

freehours9,
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@kate You look great! ❤️

freehours9, to random
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For $13.49 at the thrift store, guess I couldn’t resist.

freehours9,
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