kalleboo

kalleboo, 10 months ago to Japan

Here's your periodic reminder about how cursed Japanese wiring is.

This is an official, standard Apple power cable that shipped with a MacBook.

#Japan #ElectricalSafety #mb

kalleboo, 1 year ago to retrocomputing

My HARD OFF Megathread!

HARD OFF is my favorite store ever. It’s a Japanese chain of tech thrift stores that will buy your junk and resell it. There’s also OFF HOUSE (clothes/household items), the confusingly unrelated BOOK OFF (used books, games and other media), LIQUOR OFF, etc

I’ll start off by posting some overview photos of what kind of stuff you can find there, and then start following up whenever I find something interesting

Let’s go!

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Thrifting #mb

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

They never got VOCALOID to do English well but whatever TTS Neuro-sama is using has cracked it.

The job of a singer is over.

kalleboo, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Japan Japanese

I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb

kalleboo, 10 months ago to random Japanese

My 3 feature requests for @MonaApp

1. Option for a dialog to warn you if you’re about to post a picture with no description entered

2. Option to make custom emoji bigger. Right now they’re tiny and I can’t make them out (are they designed for 1x PC displays and being rendered at retina scale or are they actually supposed to be this small?)

3. Always load the whole timeline instead of having “load more” buttons. Timeline sync seems wonky for me the with inconsistent loading

kalleboo, 8 months ago to retrocomputing

#HyperCard #StackStories 1: The Monopoly Clone

When @billgoats posted about one of his old HyperCard network chat attempts I was reminded my my old Stacks that used AppleTalk

The dates on all these files have been clobbered so this was some time in the late 90's, before I turned 15

It's a Monopoly clone I made with shops from the Swedish village I lived in at the time. It has purchasable land, chance cards and a "lottery" version of jail

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

kalleboo, 4 months ago to Japan

Our eldest daughter is starting elementary school in #Japan in April and we have to submit bank details for a direct debit for school fees

The debit system used is some local thing only supported by the local banks, and the application is done on paper.

There's a pre-filled out section for how the school is going to submit the debits with the options for

• Paper ledger
• Floppy Disk
• Magneto-optical
• DVD
• Data transmission

I'm sad to say my daughters school did not choose floppy disk 😢

kalleboo, 7 months ago to retrocomputing Japanese

magine it's 1997 and you're a Japanese businessman. You're traveling the country for work, and want to update your personal web page with photos of interesting things you see. You have an early digital camera you bought, and you have your work-issued PDA, but obviously without a PC such a multimedia task can't be completed? You're going to have to wait until your get back home...

#RetroComputing #PDA #HandheldPC #WindowsCE #mb

A Casio Cassiopeia A51 Windows CE 2.0 Handheld PC

kalleboo, 7 months ago to retrocomputing

Windows CE??? Yes, one of those late night purchases showed up in the mail today… A Casio Cassiopeia A51 (2.0)

#RetroComputing #PDA #mb

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

A quick question to our resident HyperCard gurus - I have a button I only want to enable when the user is editing a certain text field, but setting the disabled on the button inside of openField dm then deselects the field again instantly. Trying to remember the selection and reselect again afterwards also doesn’t seem to be working for me. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

@uliwitness @ericsedge

#MARCHintosh

kalleboo, 1 month ago to retrocomputing Japanese

So this #Newton MessagePad 130 showed up on PayPay Fleamarket for $45. Never seen a Newton go for this cheap in Japan (even with massive a black screen burn spot), and they're rare to show up to begin with.

The photos didn't show the screen, but revealed some bad battery leakage (which was also disclosed in the description), but I figured at least it could be used for parts (my pen on my 120 has lost it's end cap!)

It arrived today so let's see what we got!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Yahoo Fleamarket ad showing a newton messagepad 130 rear with battery leakage
A newton messagepad and keyboard wrapped in bubble wrap on a tatami floor

kalleboo, 7 months ago to random

Got a glamour shot of the family car on the way back from camping today

2016 Suzuki Spacia Kei #WeirdCarMastodon

kalleboo, 8 months ago to apple

I bought the #Apple #USB-C to #Lightning adapter that they claim provides support for "charging, data and audio” on iPhone and iPads with USB-C.

Awaiting the new #iPhone, meanwhile put it to the test on a #MacBook Pro M1 to see if I could get anything to work!

Works:
• Audio accessories
• Charging (albeit really slowly…)

Doesn't work:
• USB drives or SD card adapters
• Ethernet devices (these work on iPhone!)
• Video adapters (did not expect this to work!)

#USBC

A MacBook connected to an adapter connected to an adapter connected to a USB Ethernet device A MacBook connected to an adapter connected to an adapter with a SD card inside it A MacBook connected to an adapter connected to an adapter connected to an HDMI cable

kalleboo, 8 months ago to random Japanese

The Sonoma Finder adds a progress bar when copying files to/from an iPhone?!!? After all these years?!?! OK this makes all the bugginess of the rest of the OS worth it.

kalleboo, 7 months ago to random

The camera app I work on just added a feature to shoot still photos direct to a USB-C drive on the new iPhones, bypassing your Photo Library

I thought it would be funny to try to recreate a Mavica using a USB Floppy drive. Now I know that normally they don’t work on iPhones because they use a subclass called UFI (USB Floppy Interface)

But how about a SuperDisk drive? Those supported 120 MB disks, maybe the use the main profile?

Sadly that didn’t work either, my experiment was a failure :(

kalleboo, 10 months ago to random

Can everyone still selling hardware with microUSB ports please quit it, as of yesterday?

This also goes for all of you German hardware hackers who are still obsessed with miniUSB for some reason.

Signed,
Someone who can't charge their headphones tonight because he thought he had a microUSB cable packed but he didn't

#usbc

kalleboo, 8 months ago to random

A product I wished existed: A small DC UPS

Basically build the guts of a USB-C mobile battery and give it some more trickle charging and input switching smarts so I can use it to replace the power brick for my router, an IP camera or anything that runs off a 5V/7.5V/12V DC barrel jack and makes it stay up over short (<1hr) power outages.

All the UPSes out there are stone-age lead-acid battery things or big heavy expensive 120V AC Jackery-type devices

kalleboo, 8 months ago to random

I got a Flux Capacitor from a gacha machine

kalleboo, 8 months ago to random

While the data transfer to my new iPhone was in progress, I wanted to go out and buy something to eat for lunch, so I dug this out of the drawers to have something to listen to. It was my wife’s, still has her music from a decade ago on it

kalleboo, 2 months ago to Japan

In purgatory for my sins.

(At city hall to get proof of my ID number to mail in with my taxes since I let my digital ID card lapse)

#japan

kalleboo, 8 months ago to random

Still my favorite Italian song https://youtu.be/_3A-7AuysxQ?feature=shared

kalleboo, 9 months ago to retrocomputing

Suddenly remembered I had a Wacom Graphire 2 tablet I picked up for like $3 at HARD OFF. Driver support was dropped long ago and I never got around to trying it with any of my old machines. Now that I set up the G4 running OS X for the kids, it seems like a nice toy for them to try out!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

kalleboo, 7 months ago to retrocomputing Japanese

#HyperCard #StackStories 2: The Email System

Been seeing some talk about AppleTalk email on fedi lately so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring

MacMail, a client/server AppleTalk email system written in HyperCard. It has no gateway to internet email, it's purely LAN

There is a server that you leave running on a Mac which stores incoming email for the clients to fetch when they go online. And a remote app which is required to admin that server

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #HyperCard #mb

Two windows, MacMail Server and MacMail Remote, each with a list of users, but Remote has actions like Add and Remove.

kalleboo, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

I managed to get the #MARCHintosh global AppleTalk network working! Neato!!

If anyone wants to add me, “kalleboo.com” as a Host ID. But I will be shutting it down later when I go to bed, don’t quite trust leaving this old machine on 24/7

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Trawl running on a PowerBook 145B showing multiple AppleTalk zones and devices

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

Me and @scj have been debugging an issue with AIRConfig for #GlobalTalk, and at the current stage it looks like the actual problem is not AIRConfig, but MacTCP/System 7.1 #MARCHintosh

The problem manifests itself with a long run of “The host name [] is unknown” errors in the Router Log window when starting up the router

It appears this happens when trying to resolve too many domains with CNAMEs in a row. (1/3)