This is absolutely brilliant, and sadly brings to mind a few people I know/knew who went to work out in Dubai.
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My #tinyMac hardware build is complete, just in time for #MARCHintosh! It was surprising just how much of a challenge squeezing all the hardware and cabling into the case was in the end. The underlying Linux OS is Bluetooth paired with a spare, modern, Magic Mouse and Keyboard.
Now to get some interesting software on it, and try to get it on #globaltalk
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Had to pay £1.50 for a trolley token at Tesco today. Thatcher’s Britain! 🤨
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Suspect this will appeal to both @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org and @gsuberland@chaos.social 😀
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I was very disappointed to discover that these so-called “ROM COM” movies contain no references to either Read Only Memory, or COM ports.
2/10, would not recommend 🤨
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Fuckety fuckety fuck sticks
Driving down a tiny one-way back street, trying to find somewhere to park, and went through a No Entry sign without even realising it.
And it has an ANPR camera 🤨😳
Guess I’m getting a fine in the post, then. I just hope there are no points. It’s council, so probably not.
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Feb 16, 2026
Omigod, it’s the 90s all over again: The Boy has bought a pair of Rock boots off Camden Market 😆
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Feb 16, 2026
It’s possibly indicative of how long it is since I was last here, but I was a little saddened to see Gohil’s Boots no longer has the store front in Camden Lock 😕
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RE: @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social
Do these people not remember Space 1999?!? 😳
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A list of regularly updated URLs for BBC radio streams. Could come in handy.
https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3
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And here’s the SD card extender and display in place, and a front view with an SD card in the floppy slot.
With that little bit of plastic removed from the bottom of the floppy slot the SD card slides in and out freely.
You should also be able to see how the display is offset to the left of the image, with a gap to the right.
If I were a CAD/3D expert I’d make an armature to fix it to those screw holes along the top and bottom 🤔
#retroComputing #tinymac
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Some pics of the mods I made. Cut sections are highlighted in yellow where possible.
- First is where I removed the ridge around the inside of the display aperture. This allows the display to be mounted physically offset, but visually centered
- Second is modification of the floppy receptacle to hold the SD card extender. Just remove the bottom and rear to allow it to fit
- Third is the floppy slot on the front case. Remove ~1mm. Do it carefully with a fine file
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Some work on the #TinyMac this afternoon…
The IPA did the trick to loosen the hot glue holding the 18650 cell in (although I damaged the inside of the case a little levering it out 🤷♂️).
And, after some gentle trimming of the guides around the display on the front case, the display is now properly centred. Measure it first with the display centre and only cut out a gap wide enough to hold the display (use a sharp craft knife and side cutters), this helps hold it in place.
#retroComputing #mac
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RESOLUTION FOR TODAY: Whenever I am tempted to toot something about American politics today I shall instead post or RT a cat pic.
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@cstross@wandering.shop ah, I had wondered why there were so many cat pics today 😀
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Look what arrived in the post!!!
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@cstross@wandering.shop I’m so excited to read it, while simultaneously sad to see the end of Bob and Mo’s journey.
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Please don’t be rubbish. Please don’t be rubbish. Please don’t be rubbish. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jd3Qqly1eks&pp=ygUSRGlzbmV5IG11cHBldCBzaG93
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@craiggrannell@mastodon.social oh? Don’t know about this…and I agree, pleeeease don’t be shit.
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Bah. It's sunny outside and I wanna go out for a walk, but it's also blowing a strong gale (literally Beaufort Scale 8 winds) and I live on a street with lots of slate roof tiles of questionable vinta
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@cstross@wandering.shop don’t fancy reenacting a scene from The Omen with a balistic roof slate? 😀
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social @ElBeeToots@mastodon.nl See the alt-text!
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@cstross@wandering.shop @ElBeeToots@mastodon.nl “for more information please read again” 😀
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A feature I'd *really* like in Apple's "Find My" is the ability to set a notification when someone I'm watching arrives within a me-requested radius of my position. Spouse is currently on a train, I'd
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@cstross@wandering.shop yeah, you used to be able to do that, but I think they deemed it a bit too stalkery
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#PennedPossibilities 830: Ever created a SC you wished was MC? Yes: there are a whole bunch of them in the Laundry Files. So after I got bored with my initial MC I gave them all novels of their own. (
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@cstross@wandering.shop I suspect many of us would love to see the Early Adventures of James Jesus Angleton should you ever want to dip your toes back into the world in the future. And Old George’s 20th century exploits.
I know you’ve made it pretty clear you’re done with it, but we can live in hope 😀
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