I converted this Toshiba boombox to run on USB power. It needs a PD compatible supply but this 80,000 mAh power bank could run it for days.

I worked in a games shop when it came out, I played Tetris on launch day and declared "This is shit, it's DOA"

I think that was the most wrong I've ever been.

"AI is coming, it's inevitable"

No, that's the Vengabus.

You know it did, it really did.

A very 1970s desktop pencil sharpener. It is beige plastic, with a metal wood grain top and a chrome hole for the pencils

I paid a quid for this broken Panasonic KP-2A battery pencil sharpener today. Got it home, did the contacts, fixed the switch, degreased and then greased it and it’s working great!

Flat illustration of a Painted Bunting reconfiguring themselves with different colorful cutout shapes- possibly adding or subtracting colors.

As sonmeone that recently bought some quite expensive valves for the stereo, I would 100% buy that box

Added a second solar panel in parallel and we’re now getting 50w + from an overcast day.

I'm still not over the Artemis mission. Hundreds of people pulling off perfectly-orchestrated feats of ingenuity and teamwork to get people to the moon and back. Meanwhile I'm down here going: "What if it had a wee bum?"

Blessed are they who silkscreen the power connection details on the board.

Paging @jayforeman.bsky.social for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Ace, thanks for that!

I've not seen Spaceballs since it came out on home video. I remember it being very funny. I don't want to re-watch it in case I discover that it wasn't. There's no need to collapse the wave.

[This comment written while making tea]

We do say that an awful lot, well observed old chap.

I drive a full EV, and I’m trying really hard to not be that guy.

Found a cardboard box full of hay in the greenhouse. I don’t know why either, but for a while I felt like I was unboxing the Blue Peter tortoise.

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

Plenty to enjoy here : techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/t...

Everyday we stray further from the light

I made a new audio player, it’s a pi running Volumino into a SMSL D1 in USB. It’s sitting here, throwing around FLACs like a machine.

Proof that, sometimes, the baddies lose.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

(sorry, I assumed we were just yelling stuff)

Let people enjoy things STEVEN. (also, yeah I know my knees hyperextend, I hate it too)

Salford Lads Club are great people, when I did my photo outside, someone poked their head around the door and invited us in for a cuppa. Morrissey needs to settle down, and give it a rest.

From Andrew Tate to Mountbatten-Windsor, my first name has been dragged through the mud. Can a global community of ‘Drews’ help change that? The ‘Council of Andrews’ started as a bit of fun – but has led to friendships, financial help and even fiances…

It’s a rough time to be an Andrew www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I may have blacked out after hyperventilating at all the amusement.

I enjoy the idea that there is a non zero chance we saw the same performance. Even though, as I said, the only thing I remember about the whole thing is that there was a Paperboy upright in the bar.

The before photo of a small round table, the rosewood is dark and visibly dusty

The after photo. The table is shiny and the colours jump out far better. There is a small pot of yellow wax on the top

This is the wood balsam I use on my guitars. It’s amazing stuff, and smells just like a school gym floor. It’s beeswax, turpentine and linseed oil. I used it on Sheryl’s dome table and while it was a THIRSTY LAD it’s come up great.