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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈

@jarrodcoombes.com
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IT Admin and Cyber security specialist, vintage computer nerd and general technology enthusiast. 25 years of this shit, and I still really have no idea what I am doing, I have just become pretty good at faking it.

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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 5h
Hey now, never under estimate the power of a snarky a-hole. Or at least the entertainment value of them at any rate.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 07/10/2026
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Star Trek TNG Data Shrugs
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 07/10/2026
I'll be in Germany in December, in Frankfurt. Perhaps I can help with something?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 07/10/2026
Yes, yes I have, it's not fun, especially when it ends in injury.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 07/10/2026
I would like to hear this story. Sorry you got hurt though, and I wish you a speedy recovery.
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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no such thing as AI art.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 03/10/2026
This assumes you receive it in the first place.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 30/09/2026
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Ian Malcolm's Iconic Jurassic Park Quote
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 30/09/2026
Ahh, yes, Apple's maniacal obsession with looking forward and forgetting literally everything behind them strikes again. Good luck, I guess?? What OS version are you running?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 29/09/2026
Les Mis? Adventure game? Comedy?? Hand drawn aesthetic?? 18-something-something???! S.O.B, I'm in! Where do I pay? *Side Note: Les Mis is probably one of my favorite stories, I look forward to something like this that pokes fun at it.
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Canadian Vintage Computer Federation @cvcfed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another great speaker will be at VCF Montreal on Nov. 7 & 8! Dave Plummer! Grab your tickets at presale price! events.humanitix.com/vcf-montreal...
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 28/09/2026
Oh, so it was "Thundercats HOA!" and not "Thundercats Ho!" that makes way more sense.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/09/2026
Dude, this is pretty awesome, and I definitely want to see I can get out there. Do you plan to also have talks, or just a show floor?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/09/2026
I suggested this on YT, but I'll put here as well. Number the projects on the shelves, then get one of this spinning arrow things, and just spin it. Do this once a month, call it something like the "Monthly Spin Video" It'll help you get over the choice paralysis, or at least get some projects done
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 23/09/2026
*worm hole (stupid autocorrect)
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 23/09/2026
It's gone off to live with all the small screws I've lost over the years. I am convinced that there is a small work hole in my office that open and closes just below the edge of my desk. It's the cousin to the one in my dryer that eats all my socks...
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 23/09/2026
Or he'll find it about 10 minutes after the replacement arrives from Amazon.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 23/09/2026
Looks like a pretty awesome image now. Glad it was a cheap fix, if not a particularly easy one.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 17/09/2026
Reminds me of when the electric company sent me to collections over $3... that they owed me.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 11/09/2026
Heavy balls? Pins? FIRE?? I'm in!
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 08/09/2026
"Let's cut one in half" Yep, that's a genuine Tube Time video right there!
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 01/09/2026
Only good vibing allowed!!
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Declan's Good Vibes in Blue Oodie
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 31/08/2026
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Ian Malcolm's Iconic 'Think If You Should' Quote
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 29/08/2026
Can we deport him first?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 28/08/2026
We piloted those at our school district back in 2009ish, thinking it could save us money, but it didn't work out to well. I don't really recall why we abandoned it. The hardware was sitting on our shelves in the tech office till something like 2018 or so.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/08/2026
It's pretty dry out here, we seldom see higher than 30%, so I'm thinking that moisture may not be an issue. Fruit for thought, definitely thinking it for when my current WH conks out (it's ~10 years old). Our water is ridiculously hard, so your comment about the Ca deposits also intrigues me.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/08/2026
@techconnectify.bsky.social Just saw your video on the heat pump water heater and have a question. Since my WH is in my garage, which is usually well above 80F in there and sometimes near 100F and I have a server rack in there too. Does it make sense to use one and pump the cold air into my rack?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/08/2026
In my experience the answer is always 1 or 0 depending on how many pages of calculations I have done... Yeah, that's fair, can't really crowd source that for type of thing...
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Umm Ok
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/08/2026
Fair enough, I was more thinking targeted crowd sourcing (eg "Anyone run in to x problem" or "stuck on y thing, any opinions" etc). The best part is if people want to help, they do, if not, they ignore it and you're not forcing someone to say "No." Not a magic bullet, though nothing ever is.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/08/2026
But by that logic, Google searches are unethical, as is going to the library and looking something up in a enclyopedia without asking the librarian for help. Not saying that reaching out is not a great statergy, it definitely is. Crowd sourcing can also be amazing.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 25/08/2026
FWIW your disclosure and use of AI matches mine very closely. It's a freaking tool like any other, and I'll be damned if I am not going to use it to get the creative ideas out of my head, I just won't let it create for me, and whatever it spits out I'll seek to understand, not blindly use.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 21/08/2026
Hmm, I must have turned that off at some point. *shrug* email is better anyway.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 20/08/2026
DM me, I might be able point you in the right direction.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 20/08/2026
(Ignore the misspelt name).
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Jerry Springer Crowd Cheering
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 14/08/2026
That 4 x 3 red connector on the bottom right.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 14/08/2026
I had thought that as well.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 13/08/2026
That power connector... Man I am glad they did not go with that one. Awesome pictures!
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 09/08/2026
What software do you use for 3d modeling?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 06/08/2026
FWIW I'd care.
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Keith Kaisershot @blitter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tomorrow (Sat 8/1) at 4:30pm PDT during the Vintage Computer Festival West, I will be moderating a discussion and Q&A with Ron Wayne, the oft-forgotten third cofounder of Apple Computer. vcfed.org/events/vinta...
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VCF West — Speakers – Vintage Computer Federation
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 28/07/2026
Come to VCF West this weekend at the Computer History Museum. VCF West, now with more Woz (@stevewoz.bsky.social), Wayne, and Terrell and Kottke among other great names and presentations.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 26/07/2026
Random question, is your cat named after the cat in the Rats of Nihm?
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 22/07/2026
I'll see you there. And I'm glad you got in touch with the shadytel guys.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 16/07/2026
Not the words I'd choose to describe him, but I'd rather not make all the sailors blush, so let's go with them.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 15/07/2026
That is the most late-90s looking video clip I've seen in a long time, probably since 2001.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 14/07/2026
@amylherndon.bsky.social We are absolutely seeing this next year, it might even be out in time for my birthday.
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 13/07/2026
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 13/07/2026
Challenge you to pinpall? Nah, I know my limits (I suck at pin ball...). But I do plan to be there, probably just one day though.
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Canadian Vintage Computer Federation @cvcfed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Grab your table while you can! Réservez votre table pendant qu’il est encore temps! Register / Inscriptions 👉 forms.gle/VW4HewpPvksu... #VCF #Vcfmontreal #retro @vcfed.org.web.brid.gy @vcfederation.bsky.social
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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 09/07/2026
Jack in the Box keys?
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