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Hopefully, you gentlemen don't try to up the scary game by licking the leaked battery juice, which is about the only thing I can conceive as being worse than what I've just subjected my eyes to in this frightful thread! 👻

Feel free to post an Amazon link to the brand and type you used, Stephen. It also seems you just used a regular kind, not a specialty high voltage kind. No problem with that if your use case has shown it works well over time!

Jeff, I've written to Henry Spragens, who was a lead engineer at Beck-Tech and also one of the earliest people to join in our TinkerDifferent founding effort. He took a step back early on in the effort and is not on the current Admin team, but he did kindly provide us with some useful thoughts...

If you watch from 15:40 in my video below, you will see the exact darkroom test and blue light I described in my previous post. Keep in mind I boosted the brightness level when editing the video in FCPX. It's actually much harder to see in person. In that video, I said you probably won't be...

I used to think it was epoxy because when you push it with a finger nail nowadays it feels hard as a rock, but people more savvy than me told me it is merely “yellow glue.“ I’ve never been able to determine the exact brand and model number of that glue which was originally used, but clearly it...

Prior to choosing this particular Dark theme, our group evaluated several different Light & Dark themes and took a vote. The majority wanted Dark, including myself but some in our group were staunchly for Light. Unfortunately, the creator of this theme is definitely a Sith who holds Jedi with...

We paid extra for the Dark Mode plugin, and unfortunately that is an annual recurring cost too. The Light mode doesn't cost us anything extra (beyond the recurring annual XenForo fee) because it's the stock look.

We are pondering that excellent suggestion, thank you! For now, what would you propose to make it easier to find at the top forum page?

A watch face so provocative it can’t be shown on YouTube is a watch face I’ve got to see! ;-)

What is being blurred-out on your wrist in the video? Interesting how 350°C works so well. I believe Bruce at one point told me he uses 430°C. I've been testing my cheap 858D at 430°C and it works well, but 350°C not so well. Maybe your expensive unit simply has more airflow. (I do use a...

Great question! We currently have 5 "Tinkerer" levels setup, which are advanced by number of posts. New Tinkerer is currently set for 0-9 posts. When you hit 10 posts, it should change to Tinkerer. The next level is a 50, then 100, then 250, but we should probably adjust those because they...

I recently acquired a Color Classic and was itching to do a video on it. I plan to do a series of videos based on my experiences with it, but the first video I just finished today centers on CRT adjustments. That's because, well, the display wasn't adjusted! As of the time of this...

Age: 50 Height: 5'9 First Mac: 128K in 1984 Favorite Mac: SE/30 Favorite B&W Game: Lode Runner Windows PCs: 0 Star Trek Fan?: Absolutely! Strengths: Electrical Engineering, web design, graphics design, YouTube Weaknesses: SE/30 upgrades & Mexican Food Mod Rating: Rate me! Hello, friends...

While searching Amazon.com today I came across my 2015 book review of Becoming Steve Jobs. I thought it only appropriate to share the link in this thread. So many people praised that book, including Tim Cook and Eddie Cue, but I found it to be no different or worse when it came to taking...

@alex_santos I just want to say thank you for posting that video. I had watched it some years back. I just finished watching it again. The reading of The Crazy Ones by Jobs is so much better than that of Richard Dreyfuss because Jobs wasn't doing his best reading of the words -- Steve...

To be sure, there are people who didn't really understand Jobs, or who had negative encounters with him they personally could not forgive, and therefore they viewed him through a predominantly negative lens. We often do that to others. We know what limits we put on ourselves, then we add a...

I came across this Wall Street Journal article by Johnny Ive today. I appreciated the warm sentiments Ive shared. I have always thought of Steve Jobs as a man greatly misunderstood, perhaps inspired by the fact I myself am often misunderstood. I sometimes say or write in a deliberately...

Very interesting indeed! I'm quite curious as to what the removal of those 3 resistors is doing in the circuit. Do you have a schematic? The stock Color Classic motherboard is quite similar, but I'm guessing the same thing cannot be done on it. If it could be done, one wouldn't need to swap...

Amazing info, @Drake! No ill effects on serial port communication after those resistors are removed?

I like it, Bruce!