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Amos

@amos.io
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Aussie living in southern Japan. I review audio gear and teach Japanese kids how to beat me up in Aikido. Old school enough that emoji are still weird to me.

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Amos @amos.io · 02/12/2025
Sony Walkman, how dare you not last 3 decades! Thankfully there’s always some weirdly-named Chinese company on Amazon that sells the part you’re looking for to fix stuff.
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Amos @amos.io · 11/05/2025
Photo of Pope Leo from the Australian satirical news site The Chaser with the headline “Vatican avoids tariffs with made in USA Pope”
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Amos @amos.io · 10/11/2024
If you see this, I invite you to post an image from your device with no explanation.
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Amos @amos.io · 22/10/2024
Fucking seriously Facebook? Nine posts in a row of recommended and other crap I don't want to see? I'm thankful I have the Social Fixer plug-in, as it condenses "recommended" and advertising posts into sing lines which I can view if I want.
A screenshot of 9 Facebook posts condensed into single lines as they were blocked by a plug-in.
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Amos @amos.io · 26/09/2024
Listening to music with a kit comprised of a beautiful headphone amplifier from a small company in Korea, combined with hand-built, 3D printed headphones & cable, both from small US companies. There's a whole, fascinating world of design in this hobby.
An instrument case with headphones inside a foam insert atop which sits a small headphone amplifier and beautiful copper cable for the headphones.
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Amos @amos.io · 12/03/2024
I want to get into flight SIMs just so that I have a reason to make or buy button panels and press buttons all the time: www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/com...
A control panel made by the user of a flight SIM with numerous buttons and switches of various kinds.
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Amos @amos.io · 28/02/2024
I .... have no words! Can you imagine running a server, or servers, with physical push buttons!?!? It would be awesome beyond words. Original here: twitter.com/thedouglane/...
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Amos @amos.io · 28/02/2024
I use them as a challenge while doing my business to see how many I can fit into a single roll. 17 is my best so far.
A toilet roll with 16 other toilet rolls fitted inside.
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Amos @amos.io · 01/01/2024
Photo from one of the local newspapers of a small apartment block that toppled over in the quake. Note that the building is very heavily reinforced concrete, as are most structures like it in Japan.
A 7-storey building almost completely on its side, having been toppled by an earthquake.
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Amos @amos.io · 27/12/2023
The correct thing to do in a social setting in Japan when given a mandarin to eat is to only leave one piece of peel. I am clearly a failure.
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Amos @amos.io · 25/12/2023
Twitter screenshot of a post by Matthew Black. "The thing is, Die Hard wasn't a Christmas movie originally. The script was changed by Constantine in 336 to alight it with the Sol Invictus festival." The Messianic Secret replies "It was declared a Christmas movie at the Council of Nicea. I can't believe I have to get angry about this."
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Amos @amos.io · 05/12/2023
The more you think about it, the better (or worse) it gets.
A middle-aged, moustached man, dressed as Mini Mouse, but with the head removed, sits on the edge of a flowerbed in front of a monorail station, having a smoke and looking at his phone.
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Amos @amos.io · 29/11/2023
Found one of the two, huge Jewel Spiders that had built webs above my room, dead on the balcony. It looks like a full-blown murder scene.
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Amos @amos.io · 26/11/2023
This old Porsche 356 was in front of me today. Never seen one this old before.
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Amos @amos.io · 26/11/2023
Not what I wanted to see leaving the house today. Yes, that’s a Japanese Giant Hornet.
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Amos @amos.io · 12/11/2023
Toobs! I left my audio system on all day and music just sounds glorious.
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Amos @amos.io · 10/11/2023
How about the afternoon pic of autumn leaves I took for my phone wallpaper? I also have a couple of pictures of fungi.
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Amos @amos.io · 06/11/2023
I have questions…
A car in front of mine where the rear ends of large stuffed animals can be seen. The car has multiple “baby in car” stickers on it.
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Amos @amos.io · 22/10/2023
Took me a moment to figure out what is going on here. It's a three wheel bike and the rider is disabled. His wheelchair is strapped in on the left. Even though manufacturers here have dedicated wheelchair car models, I'll bet that this is way more fun.
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Amos @amos.io · 16/10/2023
My oldest working Mac, a 2010 Mini Server, is now dead. It has the random hard shut-off problem. The monitor is messed up as well, and I'm not paying over $200 for new internals.
Mac Mini and Studio Monitor.
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Amos @amos.io · 15/10/2023
I've been converting all my "audiophile" micro-USB cables to USB-C. How handy it is that various random Chinese sellers make easy-to-solder plugs with the correct pinout.
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Amos @amos.io · 15/10/2023
Reminds me that I had to resist getting this from the second-hand shop. It is listed in the "Junk" section of the store, ie: they wont guarantee it works at all.
An old aluminium "cheese grater" Mac Pro in a second-hand store with a "junk" price tag on it.
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Amos @amos.io · 05/10/2023
These two were only in Fukuoka last week, at my dojo, for the first time since the coronapocalypse. Very sad news.
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Amos @amos.io · 05/10/2023
Because reaching the top one was impossible while seated, I present to you: Toilet Role Jenga.
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