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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I am so confused lol. If google can be trusted, this is even more polarizing than thrills gum? 🤣 ..Heck, now I wanna try it!

An old timey styled parody advert for Carl Jeppsons "Malört" liqueur, by Jennifer Hines. It shows a red gasoline pump on the upper left, a bottle of Malört on the lower right, and says "like citrus flavored gasoline... But maybe you'll like it"

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The long dormant memories of Rally Sport just came SCREAMING back to life.. 😊

A screenshot of a low res, low poly, short draw distance racing game, with an orange car flying off the curb of a dirt road in to the water, as a blue and yellow car continues along the road

A screenshot of a low res, low poly, short draw distance racing game, with a dirt road cutting horizontally through grassy land. An orange and white car is being followed by a blue and yellow car, driving left to right. Little pedestrians line the grassy area.

A screenshot of a low res, low poly, short draw distance racing game. A grassy field with a paved track winding through it. A pink and yellow car is perusing a white car. There is a hydro pole with wires exceeding the frame in the foreground.

A screenshot of a low res, low poly, short draw distance racing game. The scene is all dirt or sand dunes, with one palm tree. A pink and yellow car flies over a dune.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

..WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, PAST JESSE?? LOL WHY do you EVER assume "I'll remember what this means!", when that has consistently NEVER been the case?? YA GOOF

A CPU sat on a faux woodgrain surface. The CPU has a piece of masking tape on it, saying "Maybe Don't?" scribbled on it.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

WOW, did Chris Prynoski work on this? This feels like a cleaned up (HAH!) version of MTV's Downtown! 🧡 R.I.P 🤎

Screenshot of the characters hanging out in a warm toned room:
Alex,
Chaka,
Mecca,
Jen.
Alex is closest, looking at the camera.

Screenshot of the characters:
Chaka,
Mecca,
Fruity,
Matt.
Chaka and Mecca are closest to us, they look like they may have been chatting.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Woah, that is fascinating! Never heard of this machine! Just snooping the wiki about it, the "Salora Fellow" version is beautiful!

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I got my Acer WMR headset new in box on marketplace for $150, and while it was inferior in controller tracking and optical clarity, it was SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT, portable, and using a single cable, took under 2 minutes to set up. And SO CHEAP. I got many friends in to VR by bringing it to parties!

The Acer Windows mixed reality headset. It is blue and black, against a white background.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

After getting gently dunked on for having a Windows Mixed Reality headset in the past, I wanna know: Did any of you have one? What're your thoughts? (I legitimately loved** mine!)

Acer's blue and black Mixed Reality headset, alone on a white backdrop.

The mixed reality controllers, on a white background.

Several Mixed Reality headsets, by Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Samsung. They're on a white background.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Why does that first slide feel like it'd be right at home at a kraftwerk concert?

The 4 members of kraftwerk at their 4 podiums, all lit with red LED strips, at the right side of the frame. A large screen behind them on the left, is filled with grey text, just saying "MACHINE" over and over. There is white and red glitchy boxy patterns in the middle of the screen.

The 4 members of kraftwerk at their 4 podiums, all lit with yellow LED strips, at the right side of the frame. A large screen behind them on the left, is filled with grey blocks of binary code, over and over. In the middle of the screen is the word "BUSINESS", in huge pixelated letters.

On the right side of the image, are the 4 members of kraftwerk at their podiums. The podiums are black, but the members are lit with red LED strips. A large screen behind them on the left, is the word "MACHINE" written vertically, 7 times, each offset by one character, making the words stack from bottom left, to top right. The offset, allows for the word "MACHINE" to be spelled once more vertically, through the horizontal words. These letters are red, to differentiate them.

It's way cooler than it sounds lol

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Lady Rainacorn! Lady, for short! She had 2 sisters, Peebles, and Marceline! (the Rat Queen) 😁🧡 I miss them so much, they were SO full of personality.

Peebles, the Rat, white with dark patches, standing in a fluffy white hammock with a green patterned underside. She is looking directly at the camera! She is adorable.

Marceline, a grey rat with a small white patch on her belly, investigating a Sony a300 camera. She's standing on her hind legs (just barely out of frame) and resting one hand on top of the camera to stabilize herself.

Peebles, (white with a dark patch on half her face and neck) walking over Marceline (grey), with her butt resting almost directly on Marceline's forehead.

Marceline and Peebles, snuggled together on my shoulder, ticked in the folds of my black and grey hoodie.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

WELP. It's NOT pretty, but it works! The li'l Magnus lives on!

Just about the worst soldering job possible, holding a sad little capacitor on the motherboard of my Zotac magnus en1070 mini pc.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

AYYYY, I DUN IT! AFTER LIKE, 50+ ATTEMPTS! Tweaking tons of combinations of dozens of variables, yknow what did the trick?? Putting the drive in a DIFFERENT SYSTEM, INSTALLING IT THERE, then transplanting the drive back to this one. It can BOOT Bazzite locally, just can't install it! GOOD GOD. 🙃

The Asus ROG GR8 PC, bare board resting on the desk, running bazzite!

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I deeply regret selling my Matrox m3d for 20$ back in grade 8.. But hey, at least they're not $900+ like they were a year or so ago!

Sold EBay listings of the Matrox m3d, selling for 275$.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Ohhhh how I would LOVE to tinker with that thing! I bought a BONE DENSITY SCANNER the other week, you can bet your bottom dollar I'm gonna try to play Unreal Tournament 99 on it.

A cardboard box of peripherals sitting on a picnic table. The top of a thick screen with a handle on top sticking out.

The bone density scanner sitting on my workbench.

A product page for the "Omnisense 8000S Bone Densitometer", with a price range of "$4000-$6000"

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I want to bail on Microsoft. Trying to jam Bazzite up my old Asus ROG GR8, and keep getting hit with this. I've been in the bios all day, flipping settings, trying different ISOs, different flash drives, and just.. This. Over and over. :(

An error message, that reads:
"The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error and installation will be aborted.

The command 'ostree container image deploy --sysroot=/mnt/sysimage --image=/run/install/repo/bazzite-nvidia-stable--transport=oci --no-signature-verification' exited with the code -6."

With a button that says "Exit Installer"

An image of the Asus ROG GR8, from 3 separate angles.
The front, the rear, and the front again, but from an angle showing more of the the side, on our right.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

And what appears to be someone's thumb print immortalized in the hot-glue! 🤣

A close up image of a capacitor with large amounts of hot-glue holding it in place, and a finger print like pattern squished in to the top.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Same. I think the transparent Lego chainsaw may have had a hand in this.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Some even earlier LAN parties! Probably 2002-2004? (the time stamps are not accurate, friend's mum just didn't know how to either configure them, or turn them off lol)

A harsh flash photo on film, of Me and some friends, getting set up to LAN. Some on laptops, some on tower PC's.

My friend and I, the only two laptop users in our group at the time, sat on a small two seater sofa in my friends bedroom, using TV trays as laptop stands. The room has Mickey Mouse trim. There's a collection of "BAWLS" bottles on top of a large speaker.

Several other friends sat in lawn chairs in my friends room, playing Facing Worlds in Unreal Tournament 99.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This LAN party was a solid 3-4 days long. We ate nothing but energy drinks, coffee, Mr Noodles, Pizza Pops, and other heinous snackery. Later, we bought a solid 8 pounds of Hershey's Carmel Kisses. I don't know how I did not die. I had to get more pics out there. 🧡💚

A harsh flash photo of 3 guys sitting on a large L shaped sofa, 2 of which are playing CounterStrike: Source. One fellow with medium length blond hair is on a 15 inch 2005 Macbook Pro, and the second with short dark curly hair is on a blue Dell Inspiron 5100 series laptop. The third guy, with long curly hair is at the farthest end of the sofa, laughing and talking with the man on the Dell. Ramen bowls, chip bags, a large MP3 player, and other clutter fills the tables. There is actually a woman only BARELY visible, tucked in the corner of the couch, playing a red Nintendo DS. she is obscured by the Dell fellow.

A harsh flash photo of 5 guys in a row, all wearing headsets, playing games at their CRT monitors. The one closest to the camera is drinking a can of pepsi. another can is visible in the background. One player is smiling. On top of his monitor is a ballcap on top that says "Got Root?" on it.

A harsh flash photo of a hairy Jesse, in front of my two computers, a Dell Inspiron 6400, and my Soyo Dragon PC which contained an AMD XP 3000+, and an ATI All-In-Wonder X800. Neither of which made me any better at gaming. An open jar of queso cheese sits next to the laptop. Someone elses battlestation is behind me with a large black CRT, and several empty ramen bowls.

My two computers. The tower PC is a Soyo Dragon case with a handle on top. A black sock is taped to the front of the case, because the LED's on my fan controller/card readers were WAY too bright. Both the PC and the Laptop have other photos from the LAN party on screen. Under the desk is a case of Dr Pepper, a case of Five Alive, a case of Great Value Orange pop, and at least 7 cans of Sobe A-RUSH energy drink. There is a beige IBM Aptiva of sorts in the battlestation next to mine. The Queso cheese makes a glorious return.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Photos from the last LAN Party I ever went to, back in 2006.😭 GOD I miss the good ol' days.. SO much Unreal Tournament, CS:Source, and an early GoldenEye:Source build! Would any of you nerds want to join me, if I put together some kind of early 2000's style LAN party in Toronto Canada some day?

A harsh flash photograph of a short haired nerd wearing a TOOL shirt, facing the camera and squinting hard, and making a "BLEGH" face, while using their computer, with a large CRT monitor. In the foreground are two Blockbuster DVD rentals, sat on top of a coffee machine. In the background are several other players on additional computers with CRT monitors. One obscured player can be seen with a raised fist, and a bottle of pepsi raised in a chugging position. Various cans of cola, energy drinks and bowls previously used for massive amounts of Mr Noodle ramen are strewn about on the desks. Toys of a Tie Fighter (possibly the X1 or X2?), a chibi Zaku, and GIR are visible. A Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop is in the far background.

A harsh flash photo of nerds playing what might be WoW on large CRT monitors. A massive jug of chocolate milk with condensation, and a can of Pepsi is visible. A coffee pot is sat at the far end of the desk. the background is cluttered with action figures/statues, blank CD's and various hardware, wires, boxes of things, a can of compressed air, and bulk flats of Mr Noodles. The player in the foreground is wearing a headset with microphone.

A harsh flash photo of a gamer wearing a headset, glancing over his shoulder at the photographer, with a slight smirk, and some industrial strength stank-eye. A can of pepsi, an energy drink, a jar of queso cheese, and a cute tall pink mug with hearts sits on the desk next to him. several other gaming stations are visible in the background, one of which has a beige Compaq keyboard.

A harsh flash photo of another gamer wearing glasses and a headset, glancing over his shoulder at the photographer, making a very toothy, surprised grimace. They are using a beige keyboard. The lid of a queso cheese jar, and some kind of yellow cleaner spray bottle are on the desk to his left. The next station behind him has a logitech MX518 mouse. A case of some form of Mountain Dew is visible on the floor under the desk.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

LOOK WHAT MY WIFE MADE ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY! A FRIGGIN JAZZ BOWL! I love it so goddamn much. @courtneylunn.bsky.social The absolute legend 💜

A white bowl with hand painted light blue and purple diagonal squiggles wrapping around the exterior, in a style similar to the famous disposable "Jazz Cup" design. It is sitting on a soft pink surface. Camera angle is slightly elevated.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Picked up a few things thrifting today, one of which was this handsome li'l devil! The Konica Z-UP 80 Super Zoom 35mm camera! 40-80mm f3.5-7.2 1sec - 1/500th sec. From 1988! In good shape too! Autofocus, multiple exposures, can't wait to shove a battery in there and get testing it! 😁

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Saw this going around, and sure, I'd love to talk about games! Disclaimer: I am very stupid, with bad opinions, and I have played WAY less games than I should have by now! But I'll do my best!

Black text on white background:
"Tell me a video game name and I'm going to tell you my honest opinion about"

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Oh I would LOVE that. I've got my family's Chili recipe what would pair nicely! Beef, chicken, turkey, and ground "beyond meat" all work well!

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I am deeply jealous of those that could afford to Zune back in the day. Although, my sweet little RCA Lyra did some really heavy lifting, all things considered! It had an SD slot, and was one of the few that supported mp3 Pro, so I had absurd amounts of music on that li'l guy!

My blue RCA Lyra (RD1028A) MP3 player, in my hand, still going strong. The display shows "RJD2"

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Amazing, let's chat, I've got some great design ideas for a new all-in-one pc! Extremely original, definitely not copyright infringement! (ps: how hard is it to make transparent plastic in this color?)

A color swatch of a suspiciously similar blue to a computer that has been wildly popular recently, this fresh and hopeful year of 1998.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Commodore 64. In grade 3, a teacher pulled me from class, to assess me for some reason? Had me do a puzzle game on it, and I'd somehow exited the puzzle boundaries and wandered to other areas I wasn't supposed to be in. When he got back, he was BIG mad lol. I did not understand why. 😂

A classic image of a commodore 64 with monitor, 2 disk drives and two joysticks against a vibrant teal cloth backdrop. Yoinked from "Daves old computers" website.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Found a Contessamat STE at a thrift store for $40 Canadian dollaroos. The light meter still works! Definitely one of the nicest vintage camera I've found at a thrift store yet! Can't wait to run a roll of film through this! 😁

A photo looking at the front and top the Contessamat STE camera, against a grey/white backdrop. The camera is clean and shiny!

A photo looking at the top of the Contessamat STE camera, against a grey/white backdrop. The camera is clean and shiny!

A close up photo looking at the lens of the Contessamat STE camera, against a grey/white backdrop. The lens is a Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f2.8. Text below the element says "Prontor-matic 500 SL". The lens is clean and shiny!

A close up photo looking at the top the Contessamat STE camera, specifically its shutter button surrounded by a frame counter ring, and.. Some kind of indicator I do not fully understand. It is against a grey/white backdrop. The camera is still clean and shiny!

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This is creepin' right in to Arbuckle territory, jeez Louis.

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

MOVIES!!! (the long videos, not the game) I need some more movies in my life! Recommendations? Favorites? I would greatly appreciate it!

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

WOAH, a surface pro for eight dollars, what a bargai-..oh...OH. Oh dear.. We'll, at least this tablet, while a bit dirty, seems to be in decent conditio- OH NO, NO NO EW UH EW I TOUCHED IT NOOO

A first person perspective of my hand holding a Microsoft surface pro, in a Value village. It is the backside of the device facing the viewer.

A first person perspective of my hand holding a Microsoft surface pro, in a Value village. It is the front of the device facing the viewer. My reflection is clearly visible in the screen. Hello! The price tag says $7.99.
There is some suspicious scotch tape along the left side of the display.

A tablet or display unit thing, covered in.. Something. It claims to be "Sportsheets: keeping couples connected".
Selling for $10.49

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Big! Beige! Vibes are 10/10, but.. What the heck is this thing? I'm assuming a paper feeder of sorts? I want to see the rest of the beast these go with.

Large beige caddy or something, with movable trays

Same beige object, but from a higher angle

One of the trays, with diagonal rounded holes, and a small green horizontal notch thing with multiple places to place it

A close up of the notches on a tray, with things like "LGL" "A4" "LTR EXEC" and 2 different envelope sizes

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Mine's gotta be the Cerebral Bore from Turok 2. Absolutely mind blowing (lol) weapon for a 13 year old Jesse! 🤣

The oddly shaped Cerebral Bore weapon from Turok 2, against a white background

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Mine has gotta be the Cerebral Bore from Turok 2. Absolutely mind blowing (lol) weapon for a 13 year old Jesse! 🤣

The oddly shaped Cerebral Bore gun from Turok 2 against a white backdrop

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A couple neat finds at the Thrift store!

A Sony CCD Betamovie camcorder in its protective case, but in poor condition. It's dirty, dusty, and the carrying handle on the top of the camera is snapped in half. It's microphone is also snapped and dangling by its wires.

A Toshiba RT-100S boombox, in seemingly good condition, if maybe a little dirty.

Two vintage books, one labeled "computers simplified" with a silly floppy disk mascot, climbing a ladder inside an open computer. The other is "the Complete Idiots Guide to Windows". It doesn't specify a version. I will assume it's just.. Windows? 1.0?

A copy of "Zamfir - The Lonely Sheppard" on vinyl. Opened, but still protected by its original plastic wrap!

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Jesse's Heckin' Tech 📺 @heckintech.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Ai, even at its worst, could NEVER replicate this caliber of humanity. KNOWING that only a human could make hands THIS kind of bad? That is legitimately my favorite thing ABOUT humanity. The perfect wonk. That someone looked at this and said "yep, ship it." that brings me unfathomable joy.

A pair of bath gloves at a dollar store, with a poorly drawn anime girl in the corner, with the wonkiest hands ever drawn.

A pair of bath gloves at a dollar store, with a poorly drawn anime girl in the corner, with the wonkiest hands ever drawn.

Seriously, one is covered in what could maybe mistaken for an upside down sock? Not even close to resembling the fingered glove being sold, but the OTHER hand.. It's truly magnificent, like one long sausage, bent to an impossible angle, studded with weird little diagonal toe-like protrusions. A hand has never, and will never resemble this. A complete misunderstanding of anatomy, physics, and reality is on full display. It is magnificent.

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