sandlot8625

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IRA for a child in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Your kid would need reported W2 income to be eligible. Start a 529 plan instead.

No shame in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Why would you ever consider reporting him? The last thing someone struggling to live needs is to be harassed by the community and abused by cops.

Consider treating him like a human being. Ask how he's doing. See if he needs anything. Keep an eye on local social media for people mentioning him so you can warn him before some nimby bootlicker calls the cops on him.

New Community - Retro Computing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh man, the SGIs are so expensive nowadays. I always thought it would be awesome to replicate Nedry's setup from Jurassic Park but it would be like $10k in retro gear right now.

The MacBook and Amiga are pretty attainable goals still. Those early MacBooks were really hot stuff when they came out.

Where can I watch the new Spiderverse movie? in c/[email protected]
Audiobook sources? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The FMHY site has great curated recommendations https://fmhy.pages.dev/readingpiracyguide/

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What's your white whale? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

What piece of retro tech is your white whale? What do you aspire to own but probably won't ever have the chance to?

I grew up around and was mentored by many DEC veterans. I even work in one of their old manufacturing facilities. I'd love to own a DEC mainframe from their peak in the early 80s. Even a minicomputer is unreasonable for most of us hobbiests. One can dream though

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Pc Jr under the knife (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

I've been trying to get the Racore memory expansion working for the past few months. Seems like the DOS drivers I found on archive.org aren't compatible with this hardware version. Oh well, the Jride will give me enough memory anyway.

What do you have on your workbench?

What audio player do you use to play your pirated music collection? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Poweramp on Android for my phone and VLC on desktop

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New Community - Retro Computing (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

If anyone's interested I've created a new community for retro computing. Come and talk old computers!

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Brother word processor floppy images? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

I just got a greaseweazle to image floppies. I'm interested in archiving the software disks for Brother word processors. Before I start down that rabbit hole, does anyone know if any images are out there already?

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Anyone have experience with the Epson QX-10? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

Mine has bad floppy drives. Hopefully it'll get floppy emulator replacements soon.

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Welcome! (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

Welcome to the retro computing community!