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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 13h

We shall see then. Mike is always onto adding stuff to them.

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 15h

MiSTer output in Direct Video mode -> RetroTink 4K capture at native resolution at 240x160 -> Scale by 3x to 720x480 -> Output at 1080p -> LMD-940W SCAN set to NATIVE -> Almost utilizing the entire screen😌

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t hear them already!🥲

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And we all thought you died!🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

iTunes default settings!🤪

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My hearing tops at 15KHz. I can delete all the lossless files and start listening to 128K MP3s from now on😌🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amazon messed up the release AND the bonus code. A bunch of imbeciles. No wonder their spaceship also explodes in place.

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As soon as I finish writing this damn essay piece I'm gonna jump right into the canopy too😂

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They've been cooking for months and you didn't even notice?👀

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Prolly not gonna come until Monday. It's not my first time pre-ordering from Amazon after all. Might be my last though...

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Aaaaand they forgot the Ace Combat Zero code. NICE🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only two days late from launch. I feel vindicated for canceling Prime👎

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Haha! It's always great to save. And baking the whole thing is too dumb to my standard. I hope you put some blobs of silicone sealant on/in between those components with cracked joints, as it's an indication that vibration affect those. This is why you see white blobs inside PSUs!

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was dangerous to go alone?👀

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More Fun Making It @morefunmakingit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In this episode of "I'm always right! Ask my wife." I'm repairing capacitor leakage inside my pal @gigerpunk.bsky.social 's A1200 It's a long one so I split it into 2 episodes. Part 2 is out in 5 minutes. No need to wait till next week! I'll reply to this post with that link.

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"Giga"Amiga 1200 with Broken IDE Pins and Leaky Capacitors - Double Bil

YouTube video by More Fun Retro

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I never like it that way. The block always becomes burnt and messy. However this method doesn't seem to infuse much into the wick. I'll test later when the roll dries up and see if it works well.

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I tried lowering just the tip of the whole roll and hoped it would “wick” the liquid up into the roll. But it never worked. I had to unroll the entire thing onto the bottle and let it soak🫠 Afterwards, I rolled it back up and checked the liquid level - it didn’t suck up much🤔

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I pried the piece out of the paper box and put it in a medicine bottle. Then I dropped some ball bearings and closed it. Then it’s maraca time until everything is pulverized😂 Then I added 3 times the 99% IPA to dissolve it. It worked fine😌

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw someone letting a roll of copper wick suck up some Hakko liquid flux earlier today. I bought a roll of wick that came with some solid flux from AliExpress a while ago. So here is my experiment👀

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's at least a piece of description of one's perception and/or experience of something, so it would just be completely subjective. No surprise🫠

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess it wouldn't hurt to learn to set up your own mail server but then how fast is it gonna get flagged as spam...🫠

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been to some convoluted discord servers just to access some tutorials and downloads, but ended up feeling they are making you do this and that just to pass some kind of test to enter a cult. Quickly backed out after I got what I wanted🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My guess is one of the caps was put in backwards cuz the silkscreen on the PCB lied🫠

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep posting on both sides. Not too much effort is required.

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like what else is there to look back at later?🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zero-effort shittakes give you thousands of likes, hundreds of replies and dozens of retweets overnight on Twitter. I'm so done with that platform🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are computers, they don't need to breathe🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not a single piece of professional hardware in sight. All proprietary jank😬

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the jig when it’s in action🤪

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is Sony TGV-3 TV tuner unit. It goes on the side of a GV-S50 portable video recorder. I’ve mapped out the pogo pins of this unit so I can use it standalone and output composite video and audio. Look at this crazy jig I designed for the job🤡

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CarcinogenSDA (カルシー) @carcinogensda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lemon and I just finished a new video about travelling with p00s on the Shinkansen! Go take a look and subscribe to our channel, Lemon and Geek!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vys...

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Traveling Japan by Train with Our Cat

YouTube video by Lemon and Geek

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I use Windows 98 with just a keyboard all the time🤡

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have successfully fooled the TV tuner and turned it on😂 Though the video levels are all messed up. I need to look into that😅

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

However the speaker output still doesn’t work and the machine heats up suspiciously on the right side until I plug in a headphone. The cassette holder doesn’t retract with a tape inside. But this is not my concern atm so I’m not spending my time trying to fix those😌

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And it’s now working much better! The image is not rolling anymore. Ejected holder will reliably retract. This allows me to sniff the LANC bus comfortably at least - what I bought this machine for😌

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had no tiny SMD electrolytic caps on hand so I had to use all my PLCC caps instead. It’s not optimal, but it should at least make the machine work better than dead & leaked OG caps🫠

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was a fishy afternoon🐟🐠🎣🐡🍤

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Sony GV-S50 gets a rolling picture from the tuner pack that needs warming up and only stops rolling when the image is dark. The cassette holder does not retract after ejected. There is also no audio from the speaker. My money was on all these caps🧐

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*Includes Mcafee that you can never uninstall.

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Scenes with true black were stunning. Zero blooming. No leak or haze.

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yep. I basically make a beeline towards the farming point everytime as soon as I reach the 2nd castle and break the game from that point😂

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Crissaegrim is a must for every play😌 And the true black really impressed me this time👀

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A test play on this OLED monitor became another SoTN playthrough among the 20x times😌 But it’s the correct season again for me to play SoTN, so this is just the perfect timing🥳

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Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Btw, that burnt chip is TOP258PN. It's also just $2 from DigiKey🤡

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