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FMguru posted:some excellent forum name change selections in there "Yeah it's like a Clamato juice, only... actually better you don't ask"
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Armitag3 posted:I think the germans were even worse with that yeah, minitel actually had useful info and services on it. german teletext was literally 100% phone sex ads
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that also seems useful
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Of course, the French being as they are went both more stylish and horny and people thought they were being clever during the sprint-nextel merger
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that new zachtronics game sure went in a different direction to what i was expecting
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Of course, the French being as they are went both more stylish and horny most of those sex minitel services were owned by the same company founded by Xavier Niel, who became a billionaire and later started an isp called "free" whose aggressive pricing is why we have relatively cheap internet and phone internet services in france so even though the minitel is dead it still have a lasting impact on the internet in france and I find it hilarious that its thanks to the sex stuff. french people tend to omit that part when they crow about the minitel
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In some cases, the teletext is alive to this day and you can browse it from the comfort of your computer with the teletext 2.0 aka the internet https://nos.nl/teletekst
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just remembered the little clip mechanisms that laptops had on the front to keep them shut like on a powerbook or an ibm or early lenovo thinkpad
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Jul 25, 2022 12:40
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1987/07/france-the-sexy-computer/665168/ 1987 article on the penetration of the minitel and it's cyber hotness into french life.
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Sweevo posted:yeah, minitel actually had useful info and services on it. german teletext was literally 100% phone sex ads "was"? Certain private TV stations in Germany not only still send Teletext, they have systems where you can call for 0.50€ (or more?) to vote on Teletext polls. And thousands of people vote on those polls. Every day.
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Progressive JPEG posted:just remembered the little clip mechanisms that laptops had on the front to keep them shut lol, i complained about them once and an industrial designer i knew was like "what do you think they should use instead, magnets?  "
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apple's little hooks retracting when not near the release button's magnets was a really clever split-the-difference. i always worried they would get damaged, but it beat the chonky fixed latch on my compaq (lol) before my mbp 2006 also apple's laptops having a pulsing sleep light on the latch button. it was super slick at the time i guess mild lol at how the thin aluminum above the latch button would slowly indent from use
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doing drugs at startups. (and drugs hurting a lot less)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehog
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i wrote a gnutella clone in realbasic (itself a clone of visualbasic) lmao
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port it to gambas
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its on a 20 year old cdr somewhere so probably 
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Carthag Tuek posted:its on a 20 year old cdr somewhere so probably this made me think no computer i've purchased or built since 2010 has had an optical media drive.
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my last optical drive was a bluray drive in 2011. it was $5 and i used it to rip movies until i got lazy and set up a usenet pipeline for media
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i still have an optical drive in the front of my desktop it's not hooked up because the motherboard i got in 2014 or thereabouts doesn't even have the right connectors for it
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yeah i think the last one i got was in 09 ish
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this computer is the first one that doesn't have a floppy drive
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Sweevo posted:this computer is the first one that doesn't have a floppy drive So are you still running XP or nudgenudgetilt posted:my last optical drive was a bluray drive in 2011. it was $5 and i used it to rip movies until i got lazy and set up a usenet pipeline for media The last optical drive I got was probably around 2016 or so, I used it to install Windows and relevant drivers and have never touched a disc since.
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funny enough, I had a blu ray drive hooked up until last week when I disconnected it so I could easily plug in a hard drive I was archiving. thx for the reminder to plug the Blu-ray drive back in. I last used it maybe a year ago to rip a Blu-ray that was prone to skipping on the xbone. Made many points with my partner doing that.
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the original Xbox (oxbox) couldn’t play dvds out of the box. you had to buy the remote which included a cd to install the license file. I recall this was because ms didn’t want to pay the  per machine for dvd playback. also the early days of oXbox live were wild. you could change your voice to sound like an incomprehensible robot! or the girl filter! to piss off my extremely conservative christian roommate who hogged the Xbox all the time, I made my live handle xVaginalJesusx (a band from the man who brought you anal oval office, and which somehow managed to not get immediately flagged) and so he just figured out how to use hamachi to tunnel lan games so I blocked the port at the router. passive aggression is never the answer but I was young!
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namlosh posted:funny enough, I had a blu ray drive hooked up until last week when I disconnected it so I could easily plug in a hard drive I was archiving. thx for the reminder to plug the Blu-ray drive back in. my new case doesn't even have any external drive bays. i should probably get an external enclosure for by bd-r drive so i can plug it in when necessary, but i haven't actually used it in years
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Volmarias posted:So are you still running XP or microsoft offers flash drive based installers which is how i installed win10 on my last box since i too have not owned an optical drive in ages
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sadly my linux box faces backwards and my main machine doesn't have any drive bays or i'd get one of those sick rear end icydocks four 2.5 sata bays and a laptop optical in a single 5.25 bay hell yeah
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Jonny 290 posted:sadly my linux box faces backwards and my main machine doesn't have any drive bays or i'd get one of those sick rear end icydocks I've had a few of these over the years and they all seem to die after a year or so.
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it seems like the thermals would be kinda bad unless there were some deece fans back there or something yeah super cool, though. i'm a slut for weird things in that form factor
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Jonny 290 posted:sadly my linux box faces backwards and my main machine doesn't have any drive bays or i'd get one of those sick rear end icydocks cool
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Boody posted:I've had a few of these over the years and they all seem to die after a year or so. seconding, i've found out the hard way that neat poo poo like this tend to use really lovely cheap controllers that literally burn out after roughly a year
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