"whatever reason" is often we can't force people to take their meds.
Oh stop it. Plenty of used computers are perfectly fine. There isn't a single thing you need done that can't be done with a 15 year old PC. You don't need "agentic AI" to generate horse slop in your home, you don't need terabytes of pirated content you can't watch anyway, you don't need video games.
We live in the golden era of thrifting PCs and disconnecting from the slop and nonsense of modern computing.
Gotta do what the mentally disturbed religious vision of the true leader tells him.
Religion is a mental illness, a personal defect, an intellectual flaw, and the biggest threat facing humanity right now. By far.
You scared me, I managed to thrift it from Goodwill. It took almost a year for both seasons!
I recommend BeOS
Three?? I thought it ended with 2.
You'd maybe enjoy Continuum.
Silicon Valley
I thought it was decorative but it has all the parts of the real thing as I recall them from childhood. This one must have never been used, there's no kerosene/oil smell. Don't know what use case I have for an oil lamp but hey, I like the look.
I couldn't resist this goofy keyboard, although its heft and quality suggest an industrial use, it has annoying quirks such as the escape key being in a weird place and the space bar being small so I hit the Alt keys instead. But man the keys are good! It's an ione (iONE?) Scorpius 35, for 4.95$.
Next I scored a UHD of A Bug's Life for 5$ at the Salvation Army, not the usual spot for 4K stuff.
Then a Breville Inissia Nespresso machine. Took a gamble in store since there's no water there to test. The machine had all its accessories, didn't stink, was clean, and powered up nicely. I started the pump and the heater warmed up so I gambled 23.85$.
It does make a shot but there's a leak somewhere inside. Maybe time to crack it open on the weekend.
Was in the area tonight and thought it looked interesting like this. Well at least it did in person!
This has a good old 60Hz mains transformer and a little linear regulator board in there. Should be good enough. Didn't need it, but for that price that doesn't even cover shipping. I certainly didn't need one, but I wanted it anyway!
I'm not even a musician but I liked the look. Doesn't work but I bet it's because of the makeshift repair on the battery wires.
My New Year's resolution to stop hoarding DVDs lasted 4 days. Not bad! So here's The Sopranos on 6 discs, they call em DVD-9 discs which means they are dual layer. So I guess they must also be compressed to hell, but for 7.50$ for a 1/2 inch thick folder with magnetic closer, not bad.
It seems to be from the Far East market because of the writing on the back, but the audio is English, French, and Spanish. Interesting!
I had never heard of this series before I thrifted the Season 1 set. The S1 set pops up about once a month in various shops, but I had never seen the S2 before today. That wraps it up, it's only two seasons. It's a pretty good watch IMO. It's magical fantasy historical drama, I guess.
Almost skipped over this one, at a glance I thought it was some kind of chunky transistor radio of the "Columbus" brand, but then I saw the buttons and the HITACHI, the Columbus is just some sticker.
This is a cool little mono tapecorder thingy. Very clean "leather" (?, I think it might be real) case, no smells. Who knows what I can do with this, I don't feel like powering it up, but as a tchotchke? Wonderful!
Oh and it was 8$. I think this thing is worth maybe 20-25$ + shipping, considering I got no accessories and the battery cover is missing, it's fair. You can't notice it's missing with the case on.
No idea what's been going on for the last few days, another new-looking piece of semi-respectable audio gear. NAD has a decent reputation, I don't quite see it but for 23$, meh.
Another bookend. Soon my Kallax will collapse like those pictures of Kallaxes overloaded with vinyls.
It's in mint condition, the inside looks new, like not even a speck of dust. NAD had this odd fetish of backlighting their displays with incandescent lightbulbs, that look like Maglite bulbs, soldered to a board that overheats. The board looks new and the bulbs as well. No smoky insides.
For a manufacture year of 1999, that's quite an interesting design choice.
I didn't even bother plugging it in yet, even I, Certified Master Hoarder, didn't have a CD on hand and there's no headphone jack anyway.
This thing is crazy. It's this giant cassette deck with an ultimate late '70s look to it. Those huge vertical VU meters, LED "Spectropeak" display, that power button, those piano keys, beautiful.
It's in impeccable condition, all the knobs are there, not even a scratch on the cassette door window.
It's massive, super heavy and huge. Inside it's amazing, it's a basic single motor mechanism but everything's huge in there. Huge motor, gigantic flywheel, and some kind of internal secondary chassis to hold stuff in place. Belt's slack though, at least it ain't goopified.
It doesn't do Dolby but has ANRS and Super ANRS, some kind of alternative noise reduction system.
It didn't power up at the Renaissance but it was 15$. It will make a decoration or bookend if, as I suspect, I will never attempt to repair it.
I guess this can be handy if you have coax going between rooms but want ethernet connectivity. Sure this thing is about 15 years old but it's new in box, the stuff inside is still in its baggies.
I just think it looks cool.
Seasons 3&4 on Bluray, shrink-wrapped. Not bad, although the media selection at each Friperie and Value Village is dwindling.
Spelling it that way is quite ... developmentally delayed.