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I was in Hummpub last Friday and there was a guy called Mirtti there who got really angry because he'd paid six euros for three video clips of women doing the porn on his Nokia dumb phone but he got three video clips of the same woman doing porn and somehow that was unacceptable so he raved a bit and then tried to sell everyone stolen goods. I'm just shocked that a) someone is still selling porn and b) yeah see a.
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flosofl posted:Why? They're not even remotely comparable devices besides they both can play music. One's a media player, the other is basically a pocket computer with a touchscreen. Why not? Computer stuff is supposed to get better and cheaper.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I was in Hummpub last Friday and there was a guy called Mirtti there who got really angry because he'd paid six euros for three video clips of women doing the porn on his Nokia dumb phone but he got three video clips of the same woman doing porn and somehow that was unacceptable so he raved a bit and then tried to sell everyone stolen goods. Like, for just normal loving, who pays for that? I mean, when you get to a point of jerking off to women throwing garbage out of the window of a coal-tuned Volkswagen Jetta TDI while driving through the woods, then you've got to pay up.
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Sinestro posted:Like, for just normal loving, who pays for that? I mean, when you get to a point of jerking off to women throwing garbage out of the window of a coal-tuned Volkswagen Jetta TDI while driving through the woods, then you've got to pay up. Unless you know a place.
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Mar 13, 2016 04:00
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Not that I do.
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AlphaKretin posted:I do a double take every time credit cards come up online, I'm not sure if the US is behind or Australia is ahead for once (ahaha as if).
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titties posted:I still have my 32" flatscreen Trinitron CRT from 2003 and I probably always will because maybe in 10 years I will want to play nintendo. And also because that model has to weigh 300 lbs. Back in the mid 90's, my parents bought a 36" Trinitron. When they divorced in 2005, my mom got the house and the Trinitron (presumably because my dad didn't want to move the thing), which was in their second-story bedroom. A year later, she roped my now-husband and her then-boyfriend into moving this fucker, which was set on the chest of drawers in her room, five feet off the ground. It took a good twenty minutes of maneuvering and heaving just to get it on solid ground, My mom seriously did not loving believe them when they told her how heavy it was and she kept saying, "Well, [my dad] managed to get it up here all by himself, I don't understand how you guys are having such a hard time!" They threatened to drop it off of the balcony from her room. Anyway, I recently went to her house to visit and lo and behold, there it is front and center in the living room, the old hernia-maker herself. It lived in the attic for ten years and the constant fluctuations in temp and humidity made the plastic casing so brittle that it just crumbled at the touch, but dammit, it still worked, and when her boyfriend left and took their LCD, down it came from the attic (I still don't know how they got it down; gravity, presumably.)  I texted my husband this picture and his only response was a very angry emoji.
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Mar 14, 2016 13:45
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 gently caress printers.
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Potato Salad posted:
I dunno, printers are pretty OK, maybe you shouldn't walk 5 miles carrying one.
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pastor of muppets posted:...year later, she roped my now-husband and her then-boyfriend into moving this fucker... I had to read this three times before I realized they were two different people. Or are you married to your mom's old boyfriend?
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Krispy Kareem posted:I had to read this three times before I realized they were two different people. If they had been one person there's no loving way that TV was going anywhere.  Epilogue: Last time I went down there to visit, the TV was finally out on the curb. All of the video inputs stopped working at once and my mom bought an LED. Apparently it had been out there for weeks because the garbage collectors refused to take it away. It may still be out there for all I know. pastor of muppets has a new favorite as of 15:28 on Mar 14, 2016 |
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Mar 14, 2016 15:25
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pastor of muppets posted:If they had been one person there's no loving way that TV was going anywhere. These days, you'll need to find an electronics drop off for disposal. A lot of them won't take CRTs, the your township/county will typically have a contract with *someone* that will accept them for electronic recycling. Someone will still need to load that into a vehicle.
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Yeah, I'm not sure how hard they've tried to get rid of it. My feeling is that my brother will get sick of looking at it and bribe a few of his friends into helping haul it away. It'll be interesting to see if it's still there when I go visit again in a couple weeks. RIP the best N64 machine there ever was
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pastor of muppets posted:If they had been one person there's no loving way that TV was going anywhere. Well I guess an LED is nice to look at. Very low power consumption, too!
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pastor of muppets posted:Back in the mid 90's, my parents bought a 36" Trinitron. When they divorced in 2005, my mom got the house and the Trinitron (presumably because my dad didn't want to move the thing), which was in their second-story bedroom. A year later, she roped my now-husband and her then-boyfriend into moving this fucker, which was set on the chest of drawers in her room, five feet off the ground. It took a good twenty minutes of maneuvering and heaving just to get it on solid ground, My mom seriously did not loving believe them when they told her how heavy it was and she kept saying, "Well, [my dad] managed to get it up here all by himself, I don't understand how you guys are having such a hard time!" They threatened to drop it off of the balcony from her room. Friend of mine got a loving 50" CRT as a gift from some friend of his who no longer wanted it. We were poor college kids so gently caress yeah, BIG SCREEN for free? It took us all day just to get it from the back of the truck into our first-floor apartment building. But man, what a great, huge picture. Then the next year, we move to a different apartment. And of course, its on the 3rd loving floor.  Oh god.We get some friends to help us, and we're all throwing our backs into it, but even then that fucker was so heavy we had to take it one single stair at a time. Lift, move, set down. Lift, move, set down. We ended up constructing temporary ramps in the stairwell and poo poo, just to get that god drat TV upstairs. Finally when we were ready to move out of that apartment, we just said gently caress it. No way we were moving that thing 3 stories again. We nearly killed ourselves trying to get it up there. So we craigslist the thing and say that anybody can have it for free if they just take the thing off our hands and get it out of there. So this guy calls up very soon, and he wants the thing. We tell him its so heavy you need friends to move it, but he says he's got it. We insist, no, you need to bring somebody. So this guy shows up looking like a goddamned American Gladiator. He's got some lanky friend with him, and no joke he just says "This TV?" and we say yes, and the dude just picks it up and throws it over his shoulder like nothing and walks down the stairs to his truck. His friend just kinda watches and smiles at us and then off they go. That was the day I met superman.
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Parents still have their Panasonic GAOO 70 from the mid-90s. I think it required one repair (probably something stupid like caps) and works fine to this day. Looks like this: Jmcrofts posted:I love old mp3 players. Anyone else own one of these? Oh I almost missed the MP3 player chat again! Here's my Zen that I still use to this day with aux inputs everywhere. It's on its first ebay battery but otherwise works perfectly:   More space than my phone too.
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Anywhere else had these cards for payphones in the 90s?
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mobby_6kl posted:Oh I almost missed the MP3 player chat again! Here's my Zen that I still use to this day with aux inputs everywhere. It's on its first ebay battery but otherwise works perfectly: This was my second MP3 player, I loved it until he day the hard drive went kaput on me.
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The TSA-approved locks for your luggage.quote:In a spectacular failure of a “back door” designed to give law enforcement exclusive access to private places, hackers have made the “master keys” for Transportation Security Administration-recognized luggage locks available to anyone with a 3D printer.
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Zaphod42 posted:Friend of mine got a loving 50" CRT... That was the day I met superman. Having owned and moved a 40 in CRT I think you may have met God that day
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Zaphod42 posted:Friend of mine got a loving 50" CRT as a gift from some friend of his who no longer wanted it. We were poor college kids so gently caress yeah, BIG SCREEN for free? Need a video of that, with the hulk hogan real american hero song behind it.
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Yeah, 3d printing doesn't change much because the criminals already had the keys.
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mobby_6kl posted:Oh I almost missed the MP3 player chat again! Here's my Zen that I still use to this day with aux inputs everywhere. It's on its first ebay battery but otherwise works perfectly: This was my first one. I still have it, but I would need to get a new battery for it. It was a really great piece of tech, and surprisingly durable. It slipped out of my hands one day at school, then bounced off my foot and slid 5m across the floor into a wall, and it didn't even care. To be honest, I'm not sure why I didn't use it longer, I ended up getting a Creative Zen Vision, which really wasn't as good. That one stopped turning on after about 2 years. I was also one of the few people who bought the Zune. I had a red 80GB model, and that worked pretty well. It wasn't too expensive, and was also fairly durable, surviving a dropped motorcycle at 80km/h without missing a beat. I did end up frying the battery by using it almost exclusively in my car, hooked up to an FM transmitter (which connects to the cigarette lighter and charges the Zune at the same time), and when I RMA'd it, it came back and the battery was even worse. It lasted 3 years. It was a replacement for my previous device, the Archos 605. The Archos 605 was an absolute turd. It had a nice screen, played video as well as audio, and could connect to the internet over WiFi. The screen stopped working after 3 months, so I returned it and got a replacement. The screen on that one went blank after 2 months. Everything felt nice, but the quality of the device itself was GARBAGE. Inco has a new favorite as of 18:31 on Mar 14, 2016 |
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Tunicate posted:Yeah, 3d printing doesn't change much because the criminals already had the keys. Yes: they all worked for the TSA.
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Iron Crowned posted:This was my second MP3 player, I loved it until he day the hard drive went kaput on me. Inco posted:This was my first one. I still have it, but I would need to get a new battery for it. It was a really great piece of tech, and surprisingly durable. It slipped out of my hands one day at school, then bounced off my foot and slid 5m across the floor into a wall, and it didn't even care. I have a similar model, full name: Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen NX. Got it for $20 new in box at a garage sale back in 2005 and it carried me all the way through college. The screen eventually stopped working, though; it plays music and the backlight comes on, but there's no text on-screen. If either of you don't intend to resurrect yours, PM me... I bet my battery and hard drive would drop right into the Zen XTRA chassis. Edit: I think I've mentioned it before but I won a Zune from something back in college, and because I was so happy with my Creative player I tried to sell it... couldn't even get $30 on Craigslist for it, brand new in box. I eventually gave it to a friend, who hated it. Pham Nuwen has a new favorite as of 18:35 on Mar 14, 2016 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:I have a similar model, full name: Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen NX. Got it for $20 new in box at a garage sale back in 2005 and it carried me all the way through college. The screen eventually stopped working, though; it plays music and the backlight comes on, but there's no text on-screen. Sadly mine was lost somewhere along the line. It was probably in the pile of crap I gave up on putting in my car when I moved a few years ago.
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jyrka posted:Anywhere else had these cards for payphones in the 90s? I vaguely remember those being a thing in Sweden until everyone got a cellphone in the late 90s. They're just as obsolete as the payphone itself. 
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Iron Crowned posted:This was my second MP3 player, I loved it until he day the hard drive went kaput on me. FYI these players use standard 2.5" laptop drives - the only issue is that it's IDE only, so you can't just stick a terabyte SSD in it, unfortunately. Still, you can get 120GB drives for under  all day long.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxpJ5Bx5q0Y 120GB Hitachi drives: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120-GB-IDE-...eYAAOSwAKxWZeBn Here's the exact battery I got - maybe not as good as the original, but still holds some charge many many years later: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Battery-For...xYAAOSwrklVCVIH
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Compact Flash cards are just a connector adapter away from being solid state IDE compatible drives. You've got to get it to fit in the device though, so I'm not sure that would be viable, but otherwise it would be the greatest thing for these players. Shock resistant and fast!
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Flipperwaldt posted:Compact Flash cards are just a connector adapter away from being solid state IDE compatible drives. You've got to get it to fit in the device though, so I'm not sure that would be viable, but otherwise it would be the greatest thing for these players. Shock resistant and fast!
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mystes posted:Why would you go through all this effort to make what would effectively be a giant lovely Sansa Cip? Plus you'd be able to cram half a terabyte in there. Show me another portable player with that.
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Tunicate posted:Yeah, 3d printing doesn't change much because the criminals already had the keys. True, but the TSA's public statement that they don't care at all is new to me. Not that they think it, but that they're dumb enough to say it.
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poo poo, forgot CF cards were still a thing, it seemed everything short of top-tier SLRs moved to SD by now. You could definitely stick a CF card in there, or even a couple of them, actually. And yeah, it's just for sentimental value or making what you already have work. Here's a great piece of obsolete tech that I just came across:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CE_zmpHcWQ
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jyrka posted:Anywhere else had these cards for payphones in the 90s? Not for payphones, but pre-paid calling cards are still totally a thing. In the US, gas-stations and convenience stores will usually have a wall full of these things. They're mostly used by immigrants to call back to the Old Country. There are some that target special pricing on a per-minute basis to Africa, Central/South America, and Europe. Weirdly, I can't recall seeing any for Asia, but I'm sure they exist.
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Rectus posted:I vaguely remember those being a thing in Sweden until everyone got a cellphone in the late 90s. They're just as obsolete as the payphone itself. I'm Australia, they're repurposing payphones as WiFi hotspots. Only if you're with a certain ISP but still, neat idea to refresh something so obsolete.
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Intoluene posted:I'm Australia, they're repurposing payphones as WiFi hotspots. Only if you're with a certain ISP but still, neat idea to refresh something so obsolete. They're doing this in NYC as well. I don't know what it takes to connect to them though.
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mobby_6kl posted:poo poo, forgot CF cards were still a thing, it seemed everything short of top-tier SLRs moved to SD by now. You could definitely stick a CF card in there, or even a couple of them, actually. And yeah, it's just for sentimental value or making what you already have work. Any technology with "-o-matic" in the name ought to be forced into obsolescence if it isn't already there. 
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