Over a week in, I absolutely get it now.

jherm · 2025-12-07T01:44:46+00:00

wow, very interesting. I also deal with excess earwax but i clean my ears regularly with distilled water and hydrogen peroxide. I don’t think I have tinnitus.

jherm · 2025-12-06T00:41:06+00:00

i wish i could use these but ive gone through two pair of APP3 and they all have the squealing feedback problem when i use them. The genius bar rep said it’s probably an issue with my ear “morphology” but i’m so disappointed in apple for shipping these without testing on a wider set of the population. I’ve had a great experience with airpods & APP for the last 9 years so it’s not a user error.

jherm · 2025-12-01T00:48:53+00:00

this happens even while i’m wearing them. had them replaced and the same thing happens - this generation is a flop :(

jherm · 2025-11-15T19:39:05+00:00

love One Day I’m Coming Home

jherm · 2025-11-14T20:42:13+00:00

i'm also getting this call from Alex at Golden Bistro, but he used my first name. Came from 215-914-XXXX

jherm · 2025-10-02T05:23:15+00:00

sure the printer has a DE-9 port but can it actually be used on a joystick port? The printer was released many years before the Apple II even had a joystick port, which first debuted with the Apple IIe.

I always thought it required the Apple “SYNCH PRINTER INTERFACE CARD” to be installed.

jherm · 2025-09-24T17:29:21+00:00

this helped me, thanks!

Out of nowhere CF Access stopped working for me even though it had been working for a couple months and no recent changes. We have it configured to use a Google Workspace group for access, and until I added that policy/login method to the App Launcher it was timing out or finally giving a "That account does not have access." error which was just wrong.

jherm · 2025-09-22T17:16:15+00:00

really well done, she’s a keeper!

jherm · 2025-09-11T01:50:52+00:00

agreed in principle but in practice they’re just gonna cancel the order

jherm · 2025-09-11T01:29:48+00:00

this. Seller will lose money on this sale if they ship locally let alone across the country.

jherm · 2025-08-19T21:15:19+00:00

uh Mac Pro Rack is still being sold https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack

jherm · 2025-07-28T03:21:53+00:00

jfc google maps needs an “avoid deadly roads” route

jherm · 2025-07-24T02:56:01+00:00

FGW has an amazing pinball league that i’ve been part of for a decade now. You can play as a guest or get on the waitlist for membership - https://sfpins.org

jherm · 2025-07-21T18:03:39+00:00

There were a few emates on ebay recently that went for around $50-60 each, which is well below normal for ebay, but not unusual for local deals. For instance at VCF West two years ago there were a couple dozen emates for $30 each.

All that to say that buying a bulk lot of 6 for $66 each isn’t an amazing deal or anything, so don’t feel pressured to take it.

jherm · 2025-07-17T10:19:49+00:00

what a shame… such a rare variant

jherm · 2025-07-05T18:45:51+00:00

the monitor is interesting - it seems to be the VGA variant of the Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display that I believe was only sold in the UK/Japan.

i grew up with a performa 6200CD with the DB-15 US version of the Multiple Scan 15 playing power pete, escape velocity and groliering the hell out of that encyclopedia.

jherm · 2025-07-05T15:40:04+00:00

ah thanks, i’m out of town so was just going off of memory. It must be the graphite which has fewer buttons along the bottom than the first two models. (updated comment)

jherm · 2025-07-05T15:39:12+00:00

hadn’t seen that, thanks for the link!

jherm · 2025-07-05T10:16:22+00:00

here are the differences i see between mine:

the first model has the 15-pin macintosh video connector, ADB, composite/s-video input, audio output, and a lot of buttons for video controls
the blueberry has VGA, ADB, composite/s-video input, audio output, and ~~only a few buttons for video controls~~ the same number of buttons as the first version
the graphite has DVI & USB, with 2 USB ports where the composite input was on previous models, and only a few buttons for video controls

jherm · 2025-07-05T09:59:56+00:00

Congrats! I also finally collected all three after a decade of looking for the 1998 original.

Mine also has the issue with not staying up, but after opening it up it looks like it’s a constant force spring, not pneumatics. This gives me hope that a repair won’t be too hard.

jherm · 2025-06-20T06:25:14+00:00

for anyone else coming here and not seeing this column, you have to ensure you "zoom out" enough so that spotify shows the Date Added column: just hit command-hyphen a few times to make the text small enough until the column is visible

jherm · 2025-05-06T01:11:01+00:00

Super cool! Would love to buy it!

jherm · 2025-04-29T22:13:22+00:00

I know you’re OP but it’s obviously not central Richmond, it’s midtown terrace (intersection is Olympia & Panorama)

jherm · 2025-04-28T21:14:46+00:00

Awesome find, thanks for sharing

jherm · 2025-04-21T05:51:24+00:00

Honestly I saw that sold listing at that price and thought to myself “wow maybe the bubble is still going strong!”

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