Notes

The more I read about Wayland, the more it sounds like one of those "I wrote a Twitter clone in a weekend" projects which totally ignores the long-tail of features that many X11 users actually rely on.

And then as time goes on, those features actually do need to be implemented but because they weren't part of the core design, they get poorly integrated with yet another dependency on some external thing.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/

Apparently it's critical to calibrate new batteries, too. The first full discharge lasted 104 minutes, the second lasted 173. I think I'll try a third one and see how far this new battery goes.

That's with BatteryAmnesia forcing the CPU to full speed, the display to max backlight, and not letting anything sleep. I'm sure the BlueSCSI instead of a spinning HD helps a lot.

My new PowerBook 180 battery is working!

I am making a 3d-printed case (excuse the red - still prototyping) for this off-the-shelf 6V 4500mAh battery pack for my PowerBook 180 that the original sliding door can attach to

Just need to source some contacts (nickel?) to attach the battery pack wires to on the corner of the case and it should be good to go

Flowers By Irene

https://chicagomotors.com/330199/2006-Ford-Econoline

This looks like it would be fun: October 14 Bay Area Classic Macintosh Meetup, Expo, Repair Clinic, Swap Meet

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/08/14/youre-invited-october-14-bay-area-classic-macintosh-meetup-expo-repair-clinic-swap-meet/

I feel like 1990's Apple was really going overboard with the strain relief on these laptop cables

Welcome back to life, little buddy

Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable
https://jcs.org/2023/08/23/scsiwifi

Ancient Usenet post by @siegel saves me in 2023 yet again

Is there a name for this type of SMD capacitor where the terminals are on the same short side?

When you've stunk up the house removing capacitors one too many times

If you find yourself browsing the world wide web one day for a replacement Hosiden HLR1021-101182 for your PowerBook 180 and come across an LCD shop selling some that claim to be refurbished with new backlight lamps and tested working but think, gosh, that's more money than I paid for the PowerBook but it might be worth it to have a good screen that works for a long time... don't bother, they have the same stupid tunnel vision problem out of the box

How does a .NET framework suddenly go missing

I'll be at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest this September 9th and 10th with some Macintosh stuff, so stop by and say hello cyberpal

That is a huge hand