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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 3h

Could be, I am not 100% sure as I would have been a little kid when my parents were watching it. Back in the blockbuster rental days, or PPV descrambling days.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 5h

Because for me it was a traumatizing scene, probably to a lot of us. But he himself loved it 🤷‍♂️

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 5h

Crazy thing is? Chris mentioned that this was his favorite moment in his film career.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot remember the movie, but mom/dad was watching a horror film in the livingroom, and I distinctly remember a scene where this lady sticks her tongue down this guys mouth, all the way to his heart, punches it out of his chest and eats it... that one SCREWED ME UP as a child. Traumatizing

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 20h

Yep, never had this problem until covid. Now, when I first got it, i had the cigarette smoke smell. The 2nd time around is when it switched up to this funky burnt fabreeze smell.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 20h

One thing that drives me nuts since I caught covid in 2021 and again in 2023, are the phantosmia symptoms that are chronic. They come and go. Everything smells like burnt fabreeze/fruit. Currently going through that again, and it lasts a couple weeks. Drives me NUTS!

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The brave little toaster moment: Muuuuch better 😁. I decided to fix it

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Decided to sand and clean up the chassis

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sanded and cleaned up the chassis

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Time to take a look at this poor sad Macintosh classic. Probably not repairable but, would make a good test harness for boards

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am making really good progress on repair backlog. Macintosh IIcx logic board fixed!

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I never actually ran the calculations, and im not sure if i have the analytical data to do so, but it is curious to think about that

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That bambu was probably one of the best investments I have ever made, I have fixed sooo many things with that

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Closest they ever got was the indextron afaik

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wasnt getting charged for shipping, and then I was getting errors. So someone probably beat me to it when it was link dropped?

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, theyre gone. Explains why it didnt go through.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Welp thats why, there are none available.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also you basically bought them out :D

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I didnt even get billed for shipping. Somethins wrong. Also, this is meant more for DMs and not in the public space

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I tried to get the one you posted but there was no shipping billed or anything. /shrug

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I bet tarrifs and shipping would be an absolute nightmare.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crazy thing is, I believe this one was from around 1989 or 1990, and it has a TFT panel. This thing was probably not cheap new.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's another Sony Watchman FDL-310 fixed! You know I've done three of these so far. People really like these

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is what happens to the original hinge:

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is an extremely complicated part, and I can't get it 100% exact. I can get close, though.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That came out alright, now I have to deal with the part that breaks, that metal hinge support bracket. Brittle magnesium.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dealing with the next annoyance on the GRiD Gridcase 1530: The hinge bearing. It is plastic, likely nylon and it cracks/crumbles. So, 3D printing to the rescue:

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't understand why they're so expensive now, it's just a 386 PC with a plasma panel. There were many from different manufacturers

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well... that was fun! XT-IDE BIOS embedded into a GRID Application ROM on the Gridcase 1530

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No, and it wouldnt surprise me if that was a more modern thing someone did and ran it through a VCR.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What I would do is just stare at the visualizers for hours at a time, as a form of a stim when I was a kid. That was just my go-to lmao. But as a side-note, holy SHIT I miss skeuomorphism bad.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Random screenshot of FOX19 that I took on my WinTV card, back in January 3rd 2000 in Cincinnati

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this topic, it was through the website of this application that I discovered Sonique Player as it was promoted. I would then learn about Winamp around the same time, I was in my early teens back then.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Since I am a data hoarder, I found my old installer for Scour Media Exchange. Now, THIS was a blast from the past. I used this post-napster shutdown, just before I got onto Kazaa. Kinda wished it still worked.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Keyboard cable came in, Close enough and it fits in the trough. thisll do

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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September, but I lost my 45 adapter

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And this is what it is like dealing with narcissists, especially one in power. Being in narcissistic relationships for most of my life, I recognize it right away.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But to be fair the drive was in sad shape

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This my friends is why we don't use doublespace, especially on a drive with bad sectors. Let's play a game of... Well whatever that is 😂

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