A bare chassis! Everything revealed! Nothing left to the imagination!
German Turntable Porn
Category: Tech
A Real Tech Jerker
A fond farewell to my Fios TV gear. Some of it is new, some of it is old.
To Verizon’s credit, they make equipment returns very easy to do. The custom shipping box is a nice touch.
Micro Nova Fever!
The Micro Nova Hopper should soon be hopping on the Moon.
https://www.intuitivemachines.com/micro-nova
I remember the Micro Nova from its Roller Disco days.
Radio, Radio
One of Ken Burns’ best documentaries is Empire of the Air. The companion book by Tom Lewis is recommended for a fuller understanding of the connections and disputes between Sarnoff the businessman, Armstrong the inventor, and De Forest the fraud.
For Tech Nerds Only
Logitech shut down their MySqueezebox service and handed its Logitech Media Server system to the capable volunteers at Lyrion, with excellent results. Something that Logitech hasn’t given up is support for its Harmony smart remotes. The product line was discontinued four years ago, but as I found out yesterday, Logitech’s MyHarmony service, that I hadn’t accessed since 2019, is still online.
I removed Verizon’s Motorola DVR from my Harmony 650’s configuration and laughed out loud when seeing the cheapie iView 3500STBIII tuner/PVR listed as a supported device. Would it actually work? After reconfiguring the setup and synching the remote over USB, it does indeed work.
Dearly Diskparted
As expected, the external 1 TB WD My Book/AV HDD, installed for more than a decade on the now-retired Fios TV DVR, was seen by Windows as a raw disk. I initialized and partitioned it to be used for whatever.
I need to initiate an equipment return process with Verizon, but the drive was my own purchase, so it stays with me. Verizon actually doesn’t care about the old gear, but as I must return the new Fios TV One and Mini, I may as well send the old stuff back as well.