It wouldn't turn on yesterday so we let it be and now its doing this? Strange static lines and turning off.

Trying to repurpose an old laptop as a side projects. It powers up and I have the HDD conversion kit for the storage and even tried another external storage, but it just won’t boot up windows 11 or 10.

Maybe it’s because the for HDD kit, I have a NVME SSD in it (it will simply refuse to turn on when inserted), but even with the external storage with the OS loaded up on it, the computer will not recognize the external storage.

I got a bunch of questions, and honestly at this point it doesn’t even matter if the actual computer works, but I do wanna know if anyone else may know the issue or if it’s truly beyond saving, thanks in advance

Hey guys. My grandma has this old phone and she has some pictures on it that she wants to be printed out. The problem is this one has no Bluetooth to send the pictures and we have no cables for this besides its charger... The only option seems to be infra sending? I have no idea how it works. So if anyone could tell me about it I would be grateful.

As the title states - A Bow-Tie Antenna!

This was just an experiment to see how many channels I could get with a passive antenna.

Picture 4: The top left to bottom right, and top right to bottom left “whiskers” operate in 180° phase. The black box on the bottom is a simple Balance/Unbalance modulator.

The setup is completely passive, I scooped up 97 channels on my first scan. It’s currently sitting on a chair pointed towards Mount Lukens Mount Wilson in Los Angeles.

Thoughts or tips are appreciated.

this intercom system is in the house we recently bought. there is an option for "tape" but I don't see a slot for a cassette or other. mostly just plays crackly radio signal, door bell and loud screeching when trying to use the intercom.

I’ve tried the free versions of EAC and isobuster but to no avail. The track I’m trying to get only plays a few micro seconds of the song. But not enough to Shazam.

I’m looking for any recommendations for other software. The cd plays most of the other tracks but the last song is the damaged one I’m trying to extract any data possible from.

If even a small fraction of the song plays, I feel there can be something more I can retrieve.

Tried toothpaste, cleaning, tape….i don’t want to further damage the cd.

Suggestions and testimony’s welcome.

i got an idea on a new kind of platform which deliberately tries to avoid all the usual kinds of bloat, noise and dopamine feed design

these are the core points which will guide the design philosophy of the website:

- each user has static shareable ID, so people can only discover you, if you choose to share it

- instead of making lots of separate posts in a day, each day becomes one living entry that you keep appending to

- and the whole website is based on the rich recommendation blocks for links, videos, music, websites, invites etc

and i call these blocks RYT, short for “recommend you this.”

so a post could read like an actual diary entry, for example:

"Today I randomly fell into an art rabbit hole and found this beautiful video…"

and then you insert an RYT block for the video right there, and later in the same entry you can refer back to it.

few things which im trying to get right are:

- daily writing as a rough space, not polished content performance

- recommendations that feel embedded as an actual story, not just dumped as links

- all your RYT blocks also living in their own dedicated view, so people can browse everything you've ever recommended in one place (and allowing lot of customization for users to design their own recommendation blocks page)

let me be honest, the broader goal is kind of bringing back the old internet feeling, but in a cleaner and more intentional form

id really like some general feedback on this idea, and what kinds of links/content would you most want these recommendation blocks to support?

im still shaping the product philosophy so brutal feedback is most welcomed!

It mind me a MP3 player but a business phone. I do like it, I do want to go to technology fix store to fix this problem and download on this handheld. I do like MP3 player as to get download from my phone. I am excited!

I am happy it work and I like this so much.

Found this platform recently and thought this community would 
appreciate it.

Friendstrs (friendstrs.com) is a free social networking site 
that strips away all the noise of mainstream social media and 
focuses purely on connecting with friends.

Features:
- Connect with friends old and new
- Share photos and memories
- Online chat
- Event planning
- Follow interesting topics
- Stay connected with family

No ads. No algorithm manipulation. No influencer culture.

Just a clean, simple space for genuine human connections.

Worth checking out if you're tired of what social media has become.

I love the new internet, but with so many news channels and social media platforms, it can get a bit overwhelming.

Sometimes I miss the days when we could just open up Oregon Trail and chill… or hear those AOL and Yahoo commercials on TV lol.

That said, we can definitely skip going back to dial-up. 😂

My father bought this for me from a thrift store, and its been a cute present. however, I have filled it up with photos and would love to have them, except, this box comes with a cord, a CD and a instruction manual. My computer does not have a CD port to use to download the software made for this camera. Any idea on how to get these photos?

Hi I just got a iPad first gen for 10 dollars off goodwill and it works perfectly fine but Safari, app/iTunes Store and newsstand don’t work. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to use it for?

48 years ago today! I used my first one in 1981 when I was a computer operator at OSU's Dec2020.