Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1hFun thing I learned when working on this issue: Corel, the company best known for Painter and WordPerfect, made an ARM-based Linux computer nearly 15 years before Raspberry Pi did. It was called the NetWinder. Corel sold it off almost immediately. boxed.news/2026/10/09/n... 020
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 14hDamn, they work fast. The font issue has already been fixed in a version that was released *check notes* 17 minutes ago. 041
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 15hTried the InDesign riff. Clearly half broken but the important stuff works. Mix blend modes work. Picking colors is a pain right now, no way to use hex codes and typing in numbers isn’t possible ATM. Oddly it does not pull system fonts, and it is not clear where you can add more 210
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 07/10/2026Amazon already sells these in packs of two for $16.99. www.amazon.com/Tebery-Black... 030
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 07/10/2026Which one of these is the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box … and which is a rubber bar mat? 110
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 07/10/2026His son Prince had a much more nomatively deterministic career however en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_... 120
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 07/10/2026Fun Wikipedia find: An example of nomative antideterminism (on the Wikipedia page for Cecil Fielder). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_F... 2142
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 06/10/2026Yep, just checked, my Link newspaper box is still here, with 9 or 10 copies of the latest edition hanging out inside 130
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 06/10/2026*pants, out of breath* “Oh you brought in four screens to the Panera? I brought a FUCKING CRAY!” Sit on that and eat your bagel my man. I need to go grab my SGI Onyx 170
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 05/10/2026Nothing comes up about the person who emailed me. No search results for the company. The domain was purchased in June. Something deeply ironic about a company talking about and respecting your long history when it itself has none of that to speak of. 230
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 05/10/2026It's that attention to detail that makes me think these guys are serious 140
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 05/10/2026Had this company reach out to me last night proposing an acquisition. Based in Malta. Giving me bad memories of the Deadspin acquisition 150
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 03/10/2026Maybe Trump was getting payback for this? cbs12.com/news/local/w... 020
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 03/10/2026Was watching a video about a resurrected candy bar, featuring this conversation with the CEO. But then something drew my attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJQ... 3131
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 02/10/2026Yep, just double-checked the sourcing on this. Clive Davis (quoted in this piece) says he basically was stuck with a great rendition that he couldn’t use Turner to promote because she wasn’t willing to do promotion or a music video for it. hlrecord.org/the-mogul-sp... 000
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 01/10/2026Also, there is an image of a device called a Porcoolpine in this issue. Linksys wishes its routers looked this cool. boxed.news/2026/09/30/g... 071
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 01/10/2026I’m going to be a bit in the feels this week, because a good friend of mine is celebrating its 20th anniversary next week. 120
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 01/10/2026Guess the artist who did an unexpected collab with @stevenpage.bsky.social roughly 40 years ago. 110
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 30/09/2026Son “makes history” by appearing in same room with man directly responsible for his existence 110
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 29/09/2026Someone tried to pitch me on this service based on the fact that I run a “tech community.” I looked at it and laughed my ass off at the idea that they think you can charge people $50 a month for literally anything online. 100
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 28/09/2026Paul Giamatti is the first voter I've seen so far to not get a single one of his picks on the list. Probably not helped by the fact that he appears to be into British panel shows. Monk not being top 100 is a surprise. If this list was done a year later Plurbius would have been in the top 100. 130
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 28/09/2026W. Kamau Bell put not one, not two, but three animated kids’ shows on his list, along with five documentary series. I love this list. 110
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 28/09/2026Also funny: The YouTube CEO putting YouTube shows on his list. 210
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 28/09/2026LOL Nate Bargatze’s list of top 10 shows includes The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. 240
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 25/09/2026Thinking about a certain scene in the first episode of The Curse rn 050
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 25/09/2026Today in advertising concepts that absolutely would not work in 2026. Whoooo boy. 2144
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 25/09/2026Finally a chart everyone can use Source: archive.org/details/micr... 120
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 25/09/2026Combos, the only snack food brave enough to combine pretzels and nacho cheese 130
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 24/09/2026Writing this post got me curious about Jensen Huang’s bio, what might cause him to forget his ZIP code, and holy shit. He got sent to a reform academy for troubled youth in Kentucky by accident. 1113
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23/09/2026Oh good, scammers are still pulling the “backlink request disguised as a fake DMCA request” scheme. They perhaps are not aware that I called this scam out years ago. And they’re STILL sending trademark attorneys after people for copyright requests. 111
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21/09/2026Good news: Napster still makes a music product Bad news: 292
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21/09/2026Napster just entered its heel phase www.wired.me/story/napste... 2142
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21/09/2026I feel like it’s 2026 and if you’re building an app that could be platform agnostic but only making it for iOS, I’m having a hard time being excited about your thing. Anyway, just added this to the contribute page. Support the open web. 1101
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 20/09/2026Why are they drilling into my beautiful cylinder-shaped baby 020
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19/09/2026Trying Cleverkeys, an Android keyboard on F-Droid. Takes some getting used to but being able to hit characters without going to a separate menu feels useful. Also makes copying and pasting easier. f-droid.org/packages/tri... 231
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 16/09/2026I had a thought monster in my brain: What if an iLands agent was posting on Usenet? I checked, and the answer is yes. In fact it was doing so weeks before the whole thing blew up on main. It was contributing to the Debian project. Which I’m sure the Debian maintainers love. 120
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 16/09/2026One would think Tiny Computers sold tiny PCs. But you’d be wrong. Most of their computers looked like this: 210
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 16/09/2026I spotted this ad when I was trying to look up information on the British computer manufacturer Tiny Computers. They started a U.S. offshoot, and this was the way they introduced themselves to the American computer buyer. It’s the reason why we all own one. boxed.news/2026/09/15/m... 140