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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have really good experiences with these for beige-era macs (6200, 6500, Desktop G3), though my Cubes don't seem to like them 😄

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Damn, never noticed the font was the same before!

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Jeez I bought this two days before ZenBound and the PAID OS update for my iPod touch. What a time to be alive!

A transaction history of 2009 Apple account purchases showing Edge, Zen Bound, and a paid iOS 3.1.1 software update

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Apple Siri autocomplete is implying that I'm about to say "My rule of thumb is that one hour is sixty minutes" which is something an insane person would say.

A screenshot of an iOS message which reads "My rule of thunb is 1 hour equals". The "1 hour equals" is highlighted and the iOS autocomplete is "equals 60 minutes".

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ooh let us know how the print and paper quality is? Mine are getting pretty beat up 😭

A picture of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dark Sun boxed set. It is a bit dented and the print on the edge is worn down to the cardboard underneath.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Back to work and I'm greeted by this. I have so many questions.

A Microsoft OneDrive prompt which reads "Sign in to turn on offline mode again"

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very cool! I noticed that the "S"-logo on the SuperMatch display closely resembles the "S"-logo on SuperMac video cards, maybe/probably the same company. SuperMac made NuBus and LC-PDS video cards for macs!

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Same, my premolar exploded at work. Cost me 10k to attempt the root canal, didn't save the tooth anyway so had to get it extracted which took one and a half hours, plus it got infected so had to have a weekend tannlegevakt and get antibiotics

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." bsky.app/profile/spud...

A picture from the Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs (1987) where the evil president Skroob is enjoying a can of fresh air, foreshadowing their plot to vacuum all the air from planet Druidia and sell it to the inhabitanta of planet Spaceball

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Nice! You can kind of see the effect here on page 58 archive.org/details/Mac_...

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I worked at a company which weaponized optimism and which lead to some profound misunderstandings

A cropped photo of a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet reads "Cyberpunk without the gritty dark side"

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Still trying to find an OS I can install on a machine I own which lets me clone a ZIP disk in a proprietary format from a SCSI drive. Next up: NetBSD

A picture of a beige "pizza box" style mac connected to an extended keyboard and a flatscreen EIZO monitor. The monitor is a good color match for the pizza box. The machine is installing NetBSD for 68k macs

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

@aftenposten.no Hallo! Var hos foreldre i går, virker som at iPad-app'en deres selvrapporterer mindre lagring enn det den faktisk tar opp. iPad'en var helt full mens app'en bare fyllte på. Kan dere da en kikk? App tror den bruker 700MB, men bruker faktisk over 9GB. Blir fort trangt på en eldre iPad!

skjermbilde av Aftenposten-app'en fra systeminnstillinger som viser at dokumenter og filer tar opp 9,12GB

skjermbilde fra innstillinger inni selve app'en som viser at benyttet lagring er 738,5MB, mer enn én størrelsesorden lavere

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My new laptop came with Tahoe and my god how did this UI ever ship

A screenshot of Apple's Music app showing a music library in column view. A horizontal scrollbar is drawn across file information presented in the column view rather than at the bottom of the window, which makes part of the column view unreadable. The playback widget floats on top of the column view, also blocking information. The playback progress bar is almost invisibly thin and does not show current timestamp or total song duration. There is like at least another dozen elementary fuckups in terms of this being a functional user interface. Alan Dye is a hack bullshit artist.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Shouting out my La Sportiva Raptors which have been good for over eight million steps on asphalt (estimated), though it's about time to get fresh ones

A pair of dark grey La Sportiva Raptor hiking shoes. The treads on the sole is worn down and the fabric in the heel is torn but they are still servicable after eight million steps on asphalt.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I screenshotted this almost ten years ago, good rule of thumb 😆

A post from Patrick McKenzie which reads: "Very informally: Junior = needs adult supervision, intermediate = doesn't need adult supervision, senior = is adult supervision."

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What incredible nineties nonsense from the mind of Kai Krause awaits

A photo of a retrocomputer with Kai's Power Show - a 90s PowerPoint also-ran - installed. Folders have been opened revealing assets with tantalizing names such as Anvil.WAV and Twisted Chrome.JPG

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Some Mad Lad on TD used an LLM to port Doom to 68k assembly and now it runs in glorious 1-bit 512x342 resolution on a 16MHz computer. I'm so torn because I'm against AI in principle but this simply wouldn't exist without it.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Mac port of Fate of Atlantis throwing some shade

A photo of "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" running on an EIZO flatscreen. There is a system modal confirmation dialog which reads "Warning: The 'rough' command will make your Mac screen look dangerously like a PC. (eek!)"

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Repasted my PowerPC accelerator card and the PowerPC 601 has a funky color!

A Quadra PDS accelerator card with a beige PowerPC 601 chip

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Aha, we found it! It was your alt text description of the InstaTower, I'd sent him a screenshot of it in november 2024. The text is too long to copypaste because There Is A Lot To Say about that case, but here is a screenshot - with alt text 😆

A screenshot of a Power Macintosh Instatower with a copypaste of the ALT text, which reads "photo of a Macintosh Performa 6400 taken from lowish looking up at it. It's an extremely beige tower with acres of plastic and no really obvious reason or advantage to being a tower. It has a grotesque large forehead that's ostensibly an external 3.5" drive bay, a CD-ROM below that, a floppy drive embedded in the front panel and then an arbitrarily placed collection of buttons, holes, an IR port and headphone jack seemingly places to take up as much room as possibly in the field of grey plastic as possible to make things seem just a little less bare."

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Macintosh Color Classic running an external Portrait Display! The Color Classic has a "Mystic" upgrade so this is actually usable 😄

A slightly yellowed Macintosh Color Classic next to a Macintosh Portrait Display. Various windows are scattered across both screens. A set of period-appropriate Apple Speakers are on either side of the setup, as well as a Roland SoundCanvas module.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If you want to avoid AI responses to google searches, append "-[expletive]" to your searc: the LLM refuses to deal with the expletive and the - excludes it from regular search results. Plus it's way more fun!

A screenshot of a google search for "bellossom minus dickbutt". The search results are actually good, with no AI bullshit

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Got my Quicktake 150 set up and now I can make anything look like an early 90s murder scene

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Syndicate runs at about 1 fps on this adorable piece of shit

The Bullfrog game Syndicate running at 512x384 on a Macintosh Color Classic, on the darkest day of the year. The machine is struggling and the game is almost unplayable. The vibe is off the charts.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I've made a Power Macintosh 6100/80! This overclock needed the hot air station. I was worried about cooling - the 6100 case has bad airflow - and noticed that a 40mm fan fits perfectly into the "crown"-style heatsink of the PPC 601 😄

Close up of a vintage Macintosh logic board showing its "square crown" CPU heat sink with a black 40mm fan slotted perfectly into the middle.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

2013 Trashcan Mac Pro + Batocera Linux = Bintendo GameTube

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Also, easily one of the most beautiful motherboards I have seen. And the wide trace spacing, generous pad area, and well thought-out placement means you are much less likely to damage nearby components. This was just a joy to work on!

A black computer motherboard, with well-spaced copper traces and generous capacitor pads

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The NeXTstation is up and running! It is in phenomenal condition - even the battery still had 2.6V left (down from 3.0V). What an interesting and opinionated machine - they seem to have had some very clear ideas about how they wanted these to be used.

$A black NeXTstation pizzabox computer sitting under a matching gigantic 21"CRT. The monitor is showing a NeXTstep workspace with a color Mandelbrot fractal and some windows. The speaker, keyboard, and mouse are off to the side. In the background, a Quadra 700 with a Macintosh Portrait Monitor are visible.$

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Here - had to run on a Power Macintosh 6100, it won't run in emulation. You have a "parry" and an "attack" (and throw), the "parry" is strong enough to stop the poke, but not the swing!

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Constructing my delicious broth out of cinnamon planks

A giant pile of various spices. Among them are regular sized sticks of cinnamon. Dwarfing these is a pair of cinnamon sticks the size of bookshelves

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I voted! Once again, I'm grateful to live in a society where we don't do "first past the post" winner takes all results. There's 21 options!

A picture of the interior of a Norwegian voting booth. There are twenty-one different voting slips to pick between, including a blank option.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I saved the video! Hopefully this works...

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Sometimes when you're fixing up an old compact Mac, it's best to run them in the extremely undignified "Prolapse Mode"

A yellowed Macintosh SE/30 seen from behind. The PDS slot cover has been removed, the SCSI ribbon has been pulled through the slot, and a BlueSCSI has been attached. It kind of looks like the computer has dropped its guts out of its butt, and is turned away because it is ashamed.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Found an Apple TV 1st gen in fantastic condition! It looks so cool 😄I can't decide if I want to put: 1. something like batocera.linux on it and make it a gaming console 2. Windows XP for desktop retrogaming 3. OSX

A 1st gen Apple TV, on top of its box. It is a rounded square of delicate light gray acrylic with an aluminium edge. It is very slim and surprisingly large.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I overclocked my Macintosh LC630! This meant desoldering and repositioning two tiny ass resistors. This is definitely the limit of what I can see and manipulate without a microscope 😆 Instructions are here: www.applefool.com/clockchippin...

A closeup of the reverse side of a green LC630 logic board. The picture is focused on four resistor locations - two resistors labeled 301 and 472 which have been moved and resoldered, and two sets of blank pads where these used to sit. Everything is fucking tiny.

A shot of the two resistors, lying on a piece of green tape and labeled with their board locations. A q-tip is also in frame for scale, it is monstrous by comparison.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜 @killvore.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We used to have a cabin! We could not afford to keep it, unfortunately. Around this time of year, it would sometimes look like this:

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