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joshua stein @jcs.org · 19/09/2026

In case your DM250 ran OpenBSD too fast, I made armv7 able to boot from a softraid disk so you can have a fully encrypted eMMC root.

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 13/09/2026

I sold everything and have nothing to bring home feelsgoodman.jpg

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 09/09/2026

I will be at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest this weekend with a table (B114) of Dolch stuff, because there are too many Macs there vcfmw.org #computersshouldhavehandles #vcfmw

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 31/08/2026

From a PSA at the end of a Twilight Zone episode

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 25/08/2026

A small board sits between the ADB trackball and the logic board which has a USB port that houses a Logitech wireless receiver (but could support any USB mouse). It translates USB mouse HID input to ADB mouse packets. For the mouse scroll wheel, it sends ADB keyboard Page Up and Page Down keys.

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 25/08/2026

And now for my next trick...

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 03/08/2026

Anything is possible, just depends how hard it is to map the video signals and find a suitable replacement LCD, and interface the two. For the PB100 I'm using an FPGA dev board to receive the 11 video signals for 640x400 and pixel-double them to 1280x800, then output to an LVDS encoder

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 02/08/2026

Something I've been working on for a few months...

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 28/07/2026

I ported enough of NetBSD's armv7 MP code to OpenBSD to do a 'make -j4 build' on my DM250X. It brings a full system compilation from ~5.1 days to ~3.5. Compiling LLVM is still multiple days :(

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 18/05/2026

Another Pomera DM250 special release: the DM250XYZ in a translucent purple color Interesting that the keys aren't translucent like on the DM250X and DM250XY kingjim.com/products/dm2...

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 17/05/2026

If you need a convenient place to store your offline encrypted backups, a 1TB microSD card can be hidden anywhere

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 15/05/2026

What good is a laptop that can't go to sleep

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 10/05/2026

well that's gonna cost some money

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 04/05/2026

they're good barrels brent

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 01/05/2026

CRT friends: how would you describe what is happening with the image on this?

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 30/04/2026

wow, has apple used their old rainbow logo on anything else since they switched to the flat one? www.motorsport.com/imsa/news/po...

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 24/04/2026

does anyone remember this

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 18/04/2026

hello past me where does the time go

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 17/04/2026

Once a device can boot multiuser, compile its kernel, and has display and keyboard drivers, all further development for it must be done on the device itself Sorry, it's the law

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 16/04/2026

I over-use parentheses because I don't like having to think about the order of operations every time I glance at my code but from now on I'm going to use this as my justification so I don't seem so dumb

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 15/04/2026

I finished watching Better Call Saul again and felt compelled to make this

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 08/04/2026

I found the perfect USB-C charger for the Pomera DM250XY

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 06/04/2026

oh cool, the scumbag CEO of stickermule is using the company's (former) customer list to spam his political junk the unsubscribe link even goes to a stickermule\.com URL just a reminder that stickermule sucks

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 05/04/2026

Miami airport has these chimes constantly playing which are coming from these autonomous wheelchairs that ride around not carrying anyone?

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 28/03/2026

i always liked giving props, again and again

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 26/03/2026

42% of all OpenBSD usage is spent compiling OpenBSD

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 22/03/2026

68k Mac people: I assembled most of the components to build 5 MiniPerformer+ boards (PCB, 68EC030 w/socket, 68882 w/socket, PLCCs, etc.) but I'm lazy Is anyone interested in buying all of these parts at a discount on the condition you build one for me, and you can keep/sell the rest?

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 19/03/2026

look at this frickin thing

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 10/03/2026

I think there are two of them at the top right of this photo Can't remember what they were for though

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 06/03/2026

OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250(XY)

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 04/03/2026

For #marchintosh I finally put my Macintosh away

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 27/02/2026

I just realized I've committed changes to both /bin and /sbin this week

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 22/02/2026

i trust this is a card game of who can make the best awk one-liner

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 16/02/2026

I added some appropriate speakers to my iMac G4(K)

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 10/02/2026

had the same thought, what a weird phrase like they scraped random bits off a disk platter somewhere and produced a video

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joshua stein @jcs.org · 08/02/2026

If I ever become extremely wealthy, I am going to build and live in a life-size replica of the Fisher-Price house, including a giant blue handle on the roof and a doorbell switch that is roughly 3 feet tall

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