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thrakkorzog posted:I mean old TVs really just kind of worked by magic. I remember adjusting antennas and then as you stepped a foot away, losing all reception. You reminded me of how our airfryer, which must be 7 years old at this point, started dying about 4 years ago - the fan stuttered, started running slow etc. So we bought a new one. The old fryer completely stopped working the day the new one arrived, but then about 3 days later, I tried it again, and it was completely fine. Still going strong today, no issues at all. Pure attention-seeking is what I think it was.
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Reminded of all the superstitions we conjured as children to try to get our Spectrum +2 to load games from tape. You have to hold the cassette player lid closed with your finger for ten seconds after you hid load! Nobody walk around the room while the loading sound is playing! Shake the tape before you put it in there!
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May 15, 2022 13:53
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The more you read about any digital appliances, the more you understand that AdMech is right.
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May 15, 2022 14:17
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it's hilly and rural enough here that reception is spotty. at one of the houses we lived in when I was a kid, we could only get a strong signal from NBC. when one of my great uncles died, we somehow ended up with a lot of his old stuff, most notably a motorized house antenna that could rotate 359 degrees, which helped a lot in clearing up the signal. we marked the strongest signal point for each station but it took about a minute and a half to turn from 11:00 on the dial (NBC) to 2:00 (ABC). when there was a thunderstorm, we could get a couple signals from a larger city about 2 hours away. (this is still more or less the case... I can only pick up NBC and the local protestant channel in my house. I used to have the TV attached to the cable system with an antenna hanging under the house over old pizza pan. also, last I checked the protestant station was still broadcasting on their old VHF frequency, which what the hell, as it were.)
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May 15, 2022 14:50
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You used to just hit electronic devices to make them work when something went wrong. Didn't always work, of course, but sometimes that just meant you hadn't hit it hard enough or in the right spot.
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May 15, 2022 15:39
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Speaking of broken TVs. A few years ago I had to explain to my co-worker about vacuum tubes and how every hardware store used to have a TV tube testing station. I remember our old tube TV breaking and my dad taking the suspect tubes to one of these and plugging them in one at a time to find which one needed to be replaced.
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May 15, 2022 16:16
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Punching the TV was a basic thing when I was a child, and it usually worked. A thing that is still completely valid is radios being weird when a specific person is near them. In my family, there are several people who make radios go crazy when they are beside them. I still mess up radio reception when I stand at a certain angle relative to the kitchen radio.
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May 15, 2022 20:11
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Maybe you all got Be Kind Rewound at some point.
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An antenna is an electrically conductive object that's a significant fraction of a certain wavelength. You (the human body generally) are also an electrically conductive object that's a significant fraction of a certain wavelength, albeit not as effective, and affect signal reception while you're close enough to the receiving antenna.
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May 15, 2022 20:44
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Empty Sandwich posted:it's hilly and rural enough here that reception is spotty. at one of the houses we lived in when I was a kid, we could only get a strong signal from NBC. As opposed to the Catholic TV channels that are just like 24/7 idolatry in Latin? Is this a regional thing that I've just never heard of?
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May 15, 2022 20:54
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E4C85D38 posted:An antenna is an electrically conductive object that's a significant fraction of a certain wavelength. You (the human body generally) are also an electrically conductive object that's a significant fraction of a certain wavelength, albeit not as effective, and affect signal reception while you're close enough to the receiving antenna. I gots some weird magnetic field stuff going on. When I was in my early 20s, I could randomly turn silver jewellery black overnight, as could my mother. It would be fine for months on end, then 100% black in 12 hours. No other occurances, just silver going weird in a short space of time.
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May 15, 2022 21:06
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Xiahou Dun posted:As opposed to the Catholic TV channels that are just like 24/7 idolatry in Latin? Idolatry?
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May 15, 2022 21:29
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HopperUK posted:Idolatry? A very old reference to the accusation that Catholics worship idols, since they have statues and pictures in their churches. This is of course silly, because idol worshippers think that the physical object itself is the god, rather than a representation of it. It's no more idol worship than carrying a picture of your family around.
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May 15, 2022 21:32
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Pookah posted:I gots some weird magnetic field stuff going on. When I was in my early 20s, I could randomly turn silver jewellery black overnight, as could my mother. It would be fine for months on end, then 100% black in 12 hours. No other occurances, just silver going weird in a short space of time. I've heard of a few cases of this--it's not magnets, though, it's oxidization, which speeds up in the presence of humidity, sulfur, or ozone, or potentially any of a number of substances which cause the same chemical process. As a consequence, different people have worn silver tarnish at different rates. Taking it off when not in use and keeping it thoroughly dry with a desiccant like silica gel packets tends to resolve the issue.
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May 15, 2022 21:36
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Xiahou Dun posted:As opposed to the Catholic TV channels that are just like 24/7 idolatry in Latin? In the US, it's called EWTN. The Latin is more intermittent these days, most of it is in English or Spanish.
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May 15, 2022 21:40
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PeterCat posted:A very old reference to the accusation that Catholics worship idols, since they have statues and pictures in their churches. Yeah, it was a dumb cross-denominational joke from a lapsed Catholic. I just know it as one of those silly things that get thrown around like how we're also a hivemind with the Pope as our Zerg queen or whatever.
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May 15, 2022 22:22
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Xiahou Dun posted:As opposed to the Catholic TV channels that are just like 24/7 idolatry in Latin? EWTN is the one I was thinking of... I thought it was an independent station for some reason. I don't even think it's offered here, but it was on basic cable when I was in central PA.
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E4C85D38 posted:I've heard of a few cases of this--it's not magnets, though, it's oxidization, which speeds up in the presence of humidity, sulfur, or ozone, or potentially any of a number of substances which cause the same chemical process.
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May 16, 2022 15:01
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But enough about my posting.
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PeterCat posted:A very old reference to the accusation that Catholics worship idols, since they have statues and pictures in their churches.
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Just go all-in like Islam. No depictions at all, so gotta invent colorful tiling patterns that anticipate x-ray crystallography symmetries by hundreds of years
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May 16, 2022 20:32
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Protestants are too inconsistent. They've got like three hundred different flavors and none of them can really agree about anything. They should form one big church and have that church's leaders elect a guy who is infallible and the supreme representative of God on earth. That should sort things out and make everyone happy.
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May 16, 2022 21:45
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Anne Whateley posted:That's not where the issue is now or at all recently; the vast majority of Protestants are fine with artwork. The issue for them is praying to saints rather than praying directly to God. Do Protestants ever pray for each other? Ever ask anyone to pray for them? Same thing.
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May 16, 2022 23:02
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Tiggum posted:You used to just hit electronic devices to make them work when something went wrong. Didn't always work, of course, but sometimes that just meant you hadn't hit it hard enough or in the right spot. I thought that was because boomer dad knew that to make things behave you had to hit them. I didn't realize that actually (kinda) worked. It reminds me of blowing into the game cartridges.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Protestants are too inconsistent. They've got like three hundred different flavors and none of them can really agree about anything. https://youtu.be/ANNX_XiuA78
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PeterCat posted:Do Protestants ever pray for each other? Ever ask anyone to pray for them?
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Anne Whateley posted:They believe that asking a live person to add their prayers to yours is different than praying to a dead person to pray because God likes them better. Protestants aren't praying to their dead grandmas to intercede for them either.
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Anne Whateley posted:They believe that asking a live person to add their prayers to yours is different than praying to a dead person to pray because God likes them better. Protestants aren't praying to their dead grandmas to intercede for them either. Well they should be.
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Cemetry Gator posted:To be fair, computers were fairly complicated for a long time. Remember the blue screen of death? You would get some super technical error message that meant something to somebody, but not the end user. I had a very tech illiterate friend that was terrified she would break the computer somehow, costing millions to repair. After much cajoling and explaining there was nothing she could do to the computer that we could not fix, that it was effectively impossible for her to break one she agreed to go to a "PC for beginners" class. She sat down, pushed the on button for the monitor as the tutor instructed and it blew up with a bang and huge puff of smoke.
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Violet_Sky posted:I thought that was because boomer dad knew that to make things behave you had to hit them. I didn't realize that actually (kinda) worked. It reminds me of blowing into the game cartridges.
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Extra row of tits posted:I had a very tech illiterate friend that was terrified she would break the computer somehow, costing millions to repair. After much cajoling and explaining there was nothing she could do to the computer that we could not fix, that it was effectively impossible for her to break one she agreed to go to a "PC for beginners" class. 
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Extra row of tits posted:I had a very tech illiterate friend that was terrified she would break the computer somehow, costing millions to repair. After much cajoling and explaining there was nothing she could do to the computer that we could not fix, that it was effectively impossible for her to break one she agreed to go to a "PC for beginners" class. *swaps it out for one of the half dozen spare PSUs I had lying around*
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This one's not lost, but it's fading fast. For most of the 20th century, actresses' and models' body measurements were publicized, in a standard format of bust-waist-hips. 36-26-36 was one of the shapes considered ideal in the '60s --although of course "ideal" varies radically decade-to-decade-- and "perfect 36-26-36" was used to describe a hottie. Nowadays, women's bra size is often mentioned in porn, but the other two measurements aren't part of popular jargon.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This one's not lost, but it's fading fast. For most of the 20th century, actresses' and models' body measurements were publicized, in a standard format of bust-waist-hips. 36-26-36 was one of the shapes considered ideal in the '60s --although of course "ideal" varies radically decade-to-decade-- and "perfect 36-26-36" was used to describe a hottie. Nowadays, women's bra size is often mentioned in porn, but the other two measurements aren't part of popular jargon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bFT4HsLfE
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This one's not lost, but it's fading fast. For most of the 20th century, actresses' and models' body measurements were publicized, in a standard format of bust-waist-hips. 36-26-36 was one of the shapes considered ideal in the '60s --although of course "ideal" varies radically decade-to-decade-- and "perfect 36-26-36" was used to describe a hottie. Nowadays, women's bra size is often mentioned in porn, but the other two measurements aren't part of popular jargon. And now I'm suddenly wondering if the metric-using world had an equivalent expression that used centimeters. 90-60-90 would be the closest round numbers, I think. e: Yup, google seems to confirm that that's a thing. Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 21:37 on May 17, 2022 |
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Extra row of tits posted:I had a very tech illiterate friend that was terrified she would break the computer somehow, costing millions to repair. After much cajoling and explaining there was nothing she could do to the computer that we could not fix, that it was effectively impossible for her to break one she agreed to go to a "PC for beginners" class. 
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It was 36-24-36, not 26. Millennials are aware due to Sir Mix-a-Lot, no idea about gen z.
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Splicer posted:Me, a youth, "Huh, what does this switch at the back of the power thing dBANG oh right duh that makes sense" hhahaah hi5 my psu destroying compadre
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Anne Whateley posted:It was 36-24-36, not 26. Millennials are aware due to Sir Mix-a-Lot, no idea about gen z. Only if she's 5'3"
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