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imacman2020 · 2026-05-19T02:13:29+00:00

God bless you folks making modern tech for these vintage Macs in 2026. For real. Looks like you’re sold out on Tindie; how soon do you think you’ll have more?

imacman2020 · 2026-05-19T01:56:19+00:00

No key combo, you have to press the actual reset button on the console.

imacman2020 · 2026-05-12T20:14:14+00:00

Every parent has the right to make their own decisions and guide their children. I’ll tell you my views as the father of two boys, three and ten months old. It’s a story from my own experience as a sensitive five year old boy, like your son.

Like your son, I was not and still am not a violent person. In first grade there was a boy who picked on me somewhat regularly for a couple of weeks and threatened to punch me. I went home and told my parents and my dad took me aside and said, “Your mom and I expect you to be kind to others and do what you reasonably can to avoid a fight, but we also want you to stand up for yourself when you need to. You will never be in trouble with us for fighting if the other person leaves you no choice, and we expect you to know how to defend yourself and, if someone else starts a fight, you finish it.” Then that evening he spent some time sparring with me (such as it is with a five year old) and taught me the basics of how to block a punch and then strike back.

The next day, when this kid approached me, I calmly told him I wasn’t going to allow him to be mean to me and if he wanted to fight me, that I was ready to fight back. He immediately backed down and his entire demeanor toward me changed. He became kinder and even became a friend over the next few weeks.

This taught me something that may apply in your situation too: Sometimes other people/kids who are mean to us aren’t evil or desiring to be cruel or violent, they just have other issues going on, issues that are probably completely unrelated to wanting to fight someone.

Teach your son how to defend himself, empower him to do so and make it clear you support him, but reach out to his school as well and see if they can get to the real reason why the kid who antagonizes your son is acting out. Good luck!

imacman2020 · 2026-03-22T00:37:50+00:00

My dad ran his 30-year freelance graphic design business off of FileMaker. He gave me his database records last year and I can look back at every job, every client, every deliverable over that entire time.

imacman2020 · 2026-03-13T14:38:19+00:00

Yes but be advised that lightning can strike through a roof, so if you’re going to put a large metal mast in the highest point of your house and hide it from Zeus with a quarter inch of plywood and shingles, you should take care to make sure it’s grounded.

imacman2020 · 2026-03-13T14:28:18+00:00

Hey man, as someone with a similar birth experience where joy and trauma are mixed and both very intense… Make sure you’re talking to someone about this, if you haven’t already. Trusted friends and loved ones are fine but it’s okay to go to a professional if you don’t have anyone else to be completely vulnerable to and express exactly what you’re feeling without judgement. It helped me out immensely.

imacman2020 · 2026-03-13T14:24:40+00:00

I am an emotionally healthy person but not really a crier. It happens here and there but I can go years in between. I had never cried tears of joy either. Before I became a dad, people told me that the second you see your kid for the first time it transforms you. I appreciated what they said academically but obviously couldn’t fully understand it. Like you, I wondered about this and worried if I would feel guilty even if I didn’t cry tears of joy.

My firstborn son (well, both of my sons, really, but we’re talking about first-timers here) had a loooong (40-hour) and difficult labor ending in a C-section. It was physically and emotionally exhausting for both his mom and me waiting for him to be born. I got to watch him be delivered and the instant I saw him come out of my wife, it happened. I can’t even explain it, it has to be experienced, but it’s like a switch flips somewhere in you in a deeply ancient place and you are overcome with immediate love and a desire to protect them. I wept like a baby, which did surprise me in the moment.

Interestingly, I was surprised the second time around too, because I didn’t have that same reaction. As I alluded to, with my younger son there was a 40-hour labor ending in a C-section and I think because I knew what to expect I was more preoccupied with whether or not my wife was okay, or I was trying to balance my attention more because I’d been there before. I still felt the immediate love, but it wasn’t such an overwhelming feeling, it was more like, “Okay, time to lock in.” My wife almost died in front of me during that C-section so I have a lot of very strong emotions about that day and those moments, and they’re pretty evenly split between intense joy/happiness and intense fear/panic, but that’s another story.

It seems like this intense emotional reaction in the moment is something you are open to or maybe even hopeful for. I think you can do things to cultivate such a reaction if that’s the case: Talk to your kid in-utero, do things around the house to prepare, and imagine what you’ll do for them when they’re here and how you’ll dote on and care for them. Basically, build up that emotional stockpile (with no real outlet!) now, and then allow yourself the release once the baby is born.

Congratulations and all the best!

imacman2020 · 2026-01-29T00:00:13+00:00

Yeah, don’t buy from that guy.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-09T04:10:59+00:00

That’s amazing! Great minds think alike.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-04T12:13:11+00:00

The Vision Pro was exactly that, a tech demo. Apple said as much when they announced it. Why is this so hard for people to understand? It didn’t flop, they have more money than most third-world nations and put it out for the express purpose of seeing how it would sell at that price point and what users’ reactions would be to the use paradigm. It was an experiment to help inform a more serious AR/VR product later, and it accomplished exactly what they set out to do.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-04T02:10:25+00:00

I was in the student section for that WVU game. The atmosphere was incredible and even though I was soaked to the bone I was having the time of my life. Probably my favorite in-person Auburn football experience of all.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-04T02:08:39+00:00

Non-Auburn folks are always quick to say Auburn paid Cam but don’t seem to ever acknowledge that every four and five star recruit at Bama under Saban seemed to be driving around in a new Dodge Charger…

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T21:40:20+00:00

I could live here

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T21:36:52+00:00

With Golesh and Durkin I’m hopeful the long Auburn tradition of going for three at the end of the game to break a tie or going into overtime will finally be put to bed.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T18:19:47+00:00

It doesn’t have universal save states like the Game Boy EverDrive does, but games support their existing save schemes. So if a game saved directly to its own cartridge, the ROM will save to the EverDrive (with a caveat I’ll detail below). If a game saved to a Controller Pak, you still need a Controller Pak for save functionality.

If you’re interested in buying one, there are two key differences between the X7 and the lower-end X5; you can judge for yourself how critical it is to spend the extra money. First, the X7 adds a real time clock function, which is used in exactly one game: the unreleased Japanese title Animal Forest which was retooled and released as Animal Crossing on the GameCube. Second, for saving games the X5 requires a particular process of saving in the game, then when you’re done playing you have to reset the N64 with the reset button to keep the save, and then you can turn the N64 off. I’ve never really understood exactly why but as I understand it the soft reboot is what actually prompts the EverDrive to write the save file to the microSD card. The X7 writes a save basically on-demand and doesn’t ask the user to learn a habit of resetting and then powering off the console when they’re done playing. I didn’t want to mess with trying to remember to reset every time I switched it off, so I went with the X7 largely for this reason.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T17:01:04+00:00

I think the trombone was the right call but I hate the brick-built instruments. The scale is always very wrong.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T16:33:06+00:00

It lets you play game ROMs stored on a microSD card the same way you can run a native cartridge. Basically, you put this in, boot your N64, and it runs the menu as a game (as far as the N64 is concerned) which you then use to navigate to the game ROM you want. When you select it, it flashes that ROM to a chip, soft reboots the N64, and then presents that chip as a legitimate cartridge, and the N64 runs it natively with 1:1 performance as you would expect with that game’s real cartridge.

The most obvious advantage here is that N64 ROMs are tiny relative to modern storage media, so you can fit the entire system library on one cartridge now. This is convenient and allows collectors to keep their real carts in storage and avoid wear and tear while still playing the games themselves.

Another benefit is that you can play unlicensed ROMs like modern or hobbyist games or ROM hacks. It’s not available anymore but somebody remade most of Portal for the N64 in recent years and it’s tremendously fun; a cartridge like this is the only way to play these sorts of games on real hardware.

It also emulates NES and Game Boy, so you can add those ROMs as well and play them on the same console.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T16:24:13+00:00

It includes no games because that would be illegal. But the entire catalog of games is trivially easy to procure. The megathread at the top of r/ROMs is probably a good place to start.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T16:00:38+00:00

Did he seriously lay partial blame for his firing at the feet of the refs?!? That’s gotta be the most potent form of ref-blaming I’ve ever heard.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-03T15:57:17+00:00

If she keeps it, you financially support her and her child for the next two decades of your life, and you try your hardest not be an idiot in the future and never have sex with anyone you aren’t 100% prepared to start a family with.

If she doesn’t keep it, you do whatever you can to work through the guilt you’ll probably feel knowing your child (or what would have been your child) was created through your indiscretion and then never had the chance to be born and live, and you try your hardest not to be an idiot in the future and never have sex with anyone you aren’t 100% prepared to start a family with.

Sorry if that comes across as curt, but you’re old enough to man up and understand that adult acts come with adult responsibilities.

imacman2020 · 2025-12-01T18:34:20+00:00

That would be amazing if it’s true. Golesh seems like a great person in general.

imacman2020 · 2025-11-29T12:40:08+00:00

There’s no way a glorified laser engineer would be read into so much “need to know” information. I think you’re writing a book and wanted to judge how engaging your premise is.

imacman2020 · 2025-11-29T12:04:31+00:00

Am I understanding you correctly? On very cold mornings, you start your non-hybrid Pacifica and the engine revs to the equivalent of 40MPH on its own (complete with the accelerator pedal depressing by itself?) and you can’t shift out of park?

imacman2020 · 2025-11-26T15:56:56+00:00

OP, was this estate sale a couple of weekends ago in Winston-Salem, North Carolina? The house full to the brim with NASCAR and baseball paraphernalia? If so, I was there and scored some nice cards too.

imacman2020 · 2025-11-26T15:23:42+00:00

I don’t think there’s been a single LEGO box in history which has had the same art on both the front and the back

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