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  An FM radio, free with your subscription to Out magazine in 2005.

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  A classic Alfa Romeo converted to electric power deserves more than 4 views (when I watched this yesterday, it said "No views"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umP7wVRhtqY

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  This cookie-cutter AI-generated thumbnail style is taking over YouTube, including on channels I used to watch regularly, and I'm already sick of it.

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  Yes, that's the actual name of the perky pizzicato production music you've heard in TV shows, cartoons, commercials, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QtxOr4iSBY

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  The comeback of CDs (and re-decline of vinyl) is starting to happen: https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/

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  Sad news. YouTuber Daniel Schwank (CoolBlueLights / ControlledExplosions) passed away recently at the age of 45. He made videos about various things including small engine equipment, old radios and appliances, his 1966 VW Beetle, and vlogging about life in rural upstate NY. https://www.compassionatefuneralcare.com/obituary/Daniel-Schwank

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  First the Gen Z kids were into vinyl records, then typewriters, and now Model A Fords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnUDn0WF3Xw

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  Contributors to the AT&T PC6300 newsletter back in 1988 were James Butts and David Gay. https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sys.att/1990-June/004022.html

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  If only TV was like that again.

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  @krishnadraws Could simply be due to being in the middle of winter and having very dry air. Plus the SE/30 has a fan, which combined with the static charge of the CRT basically turns it into an air cleaner, attracting dust to the picture tube.

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  @TechConnectify's term "user-hostile" is the perfect description for automakers doing dumb things like burying the odometer in a touchscreen menu -- and not a new phenomenon, like when Ford and various others moved the horn button to the end of the turn signal stalk in the 1970s. Sometimes "because we've always done it that way" is a perfectly reasonable explanation of why not to change a critical user function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

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  Subaru took the Outback, a wagon that appealed to women, turned it into a boxy macho-style SUV despite the company's own focus groups telling them not to change it, and raised the price by $5000, and now is astonished that sales of it have nosedived: https://www.autoblog.com/news/subaru-ditched-the-wagon-and-outback-sales-dropped-over-40

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  MBI had the gall to disclaim the IBM logo as a registered trademark of IBM, but then just flip it around and use it as their own.

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  A video series to binge-watch: a Canadian couple buy and begin restoring an abandoned French château: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpyRF5CaoDE

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  If you want something else to watch tonight, and an early chance to jump on a bargain(?!) before the video goes public tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2TpDZw9AwQ

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  Heads up, they're called transistors, not cisistors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdgQaRICEig

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  Malaise-era GM thought it was a good idea to use the Opel name from Germany, to sell cars made in Japan by Isuzu, at Buick dealers in the USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npGqHqiTBXs

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116262153401762539 This fits with most of the people I see using AI-generated images or thumbnails being old enough to have used VHS tape and Mavica floppy disk cameras. Younger people who grew up when HD video and multi-megapixel photos were the norm are better at spotting the slop.

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  RE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/116267916862017986 I remember being taught the basics of cars and engines in elementary school science class, maybe in 5th grade? The book we used must've been written in the 1970s, because its default car had a carbureted V8 engine and rear-wheel drive, and it presented rotary/Wankel engines as a new development. Our teacher was amused that some of the then-current econoboxes like the Geo Metro had a 3-cylinder engine.

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  The temperature plummeted and it snowed a little bit today, so hopefully skiing season isn't over quite yet.

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  www.worldradiohistory.com has been an invaluable resource in doing research for my videos. It has fully OCR'ed and searchable scans of books, magazines, catalogs, journals, and other publications relating to radio, TV, audio, video, electronics, and music.

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  One odd thing about the 1985 Fisher FVH830 VCR I used in my Macrovision video: it has a "tape select" switch with positions marked "~T60" and "T80~". The manual just says to set it to the length of tape you're using, and gives no further explanation. I guess the squigglies are supposed to mean "T60 or shorter" and "T80 or longer", but who was using tapes that short, anyway? I thought T120 tape was a...

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  I'm pretty sure my Canon HF200 is "Orlando" -- it's from around when this was recorded (2010), did cost around $700 when new, and Canon's press photo of it matches the brief glimpse of the web site shown in the video; although it doesn't have an L-Series lens (that was only on Canon's high-end camcorders), and it does have dual 3.5 mm jacks, but they're a mic input and headphone/AV output instead of "dual inputs"...

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  Going from below freezing to 80°F in one week sure melts the snow quickly... and also brings out the shirtless runners and spandex-clad bicyclists. 🏃 🚴

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  Radio Shack's "Easy Home Video Editor" from the mid-1990s. A Videonics product in disguise? @themaritimegirl

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  Did you know? The word damsel (as in "damsel in distress") has a rarely used male equivalent: donzel. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/donzel

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  Ah yes, the forgotten ELP speed of VHS video cassette recording.

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  Did he trip and fall on my collection of Y2K-era translucent blue electronics?