I’ve seen so much idiocy on the internet in the last couple of years in regards to technology that it baffles my mind.

The latest to do so is Eddy Burback with his Youtube video I hate my phone so I got rid of it.

Sure, companies like Meta, X, etc are cancer and apps that make use of the endless scrolling, like TikTok, Instagram, Youtube reels, etc are the fucking worst. But if you’re unable to break the habit of fucking scrolling for one hour (like the dude says at the 1:10 mark in the video), THAT’S YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM.

You don’t need to throw your phone in the bin, you don’t need to revert to 1990s tech and you don’t need to return to monke.

Look, I love me some retro tech, it’s cool, it’s got the nostalgia factor and everything looks pretty when you look at it through rose-tinted glasses. I’ve had my share of playing with a lot of gadgets, be it phones, computers, cameras (photo or video), audio cassette players, I get it. I know why using retro stuff is cool. But whenever I’m using a retro tool, I’m stopping at the moment where I lose real life functionality.

Remember kids, technology is a tool and we need to know how to use it properly. If we’re not using it for our benefit, then we need to find better ways to make ourselves better, and use it better. We don’t need to reject progress just because we’re too idiotic to control ourselves.

For the love of progress, please stop being retarded monkeys.

You weren’t one of the good ones, you were one of the greatest ones. Rest in peace.

Still from The Salton Sea (2002).

Yeah, so this is how a TikTok looks on a computer. If you have a TikTok account, then you’re a part of the problem.

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You can be cool, but you can never be as cool as Pippo Franco. And this song shows that Italian cocaine was better than colombian one during the eighties.

Released in 2000, this was one of the greatest mouse of my childhood. Sturdy, reliable, with side buttons and looking absolutely awesome, I really loved the white one. So I was more than happy to buy two of them for 20 euros from a local thrift store, boxed and sealed! It was really awesome to unbox one of them and take it for a spin, I love the rugged texture on the white surface, it makes it feel so nice and usable, and the red light from under it makes it look so cool! Definitely a blast from the past and I might be using this as my main browsing mouse instead of the Steelseries Aerox 9, which always seems to remain without a battery.

You might recall that a couple of days ago I shared this great live video of Manau & les 500 choristes - La Tribu de Dana.

Now it’s forever gone. Thanks, Retardtube!

As you all know I love a bootleg, I made another on MiniDisc, now for the newest album by ‘Om la lună’, called Solaar. Hear a few songs on Youtube: La răsărit, Din senin, Serpentine, and if you like them, check them out either on their bandcamp or on their official store!

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Every 7 years or so I rediscover this live version of one of the best songs out there.

As of February 15th, 2024, Steam officially stopped supporting the macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and 10.14 (Mojave) operating systems.

Remember that Steam Games are not your games. You can get cut off whenever they want, for any reason they want, so retro gaming is a bit harder on older macs unless you’re willing to sail the high seas.

Yar! 🏴‍☠️

As I promised in the first week’s post for the #MARCHintosh challenge, there’s a new theme I coded for the website. Because it’s based on System 6 of the Macintosh Plus, it’s going to be very simple, rudimentary, but most of all, colorless.

I’ve managed to get and serve the Chicago/Sysfont pixelated font, made by Alina Sava.

Additionally, I’ve used this neat CSS hack from Quinn Keaveney on stackoverflow to make the photos look more old school. I also made all the photos black and white, but if you click them to see them zoomed in the lightbox, they will appear in their full colour.

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img {
	filter: saturate(0) url("#pixelateAni");
	image-rendering: pixelated;
    animation: pixelAni 5s;
}
@keyframes pixelAni {
	99.9% {
		filter: saturate(0) url("#pixelateAni");
	}
}

There are also some other easter eggs, maybe you’ll find them! :D

Thank you for the nice people at #MARCHintosh for the initiative!

#MARCHintosh Event Logo concept and design by Javier Rivera | YouTube: JavMaster | Twitter: @javmast3r

Although a bit late to the party, I wanted to participate in the #MARCHintosh challenge of 2025

I set up a nice spot on my desk for my Macintosh Plus and my idea was to write some Macintosh-related articles directly on it, take them out and publish them on my blog.

The Macintosh Plus is using only DD floppy disks, both single-sided and double-sided, at 360 and 720KB, and it cannot read or write the commonly used HD floppies (the 1.4MB ones), thus making it hard to move files in and out of the Macintosh Plus. And because trouble never comes alone, the laptop I was using to easily transfer files between the Macintosh Plus and the modern computers (a 1995 Powerbook 5300cs) has officially died. So until then, I have no other ability to take the articles I write on the Macintosh and publish them on my site. Additionally, keeping in mind that the Rodime Systems Hard Disk is also about 40 years old, I am very afraid that sooner or later it will fatally crash and I will lose all the data on it. It’s only 20 Megabytes, but some time ago, it meant a lot.

So if you see more posts about #MARCHintosh, it means I found out a way to pull the files out of the 40 year old desktop. If not, just enjoy some of the photos below.