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bragging about constant angular velocity CD readers. “52X MAX” was good for shattering the football shaped disc you got at a trade show
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we tried to cut some CDs on a CNC router into a shape as one of those giveaway things that’d show off your skills the cut was awful and chipped away the surface. it sounded dreadful when I put it in the cd player
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rotor posted:agreed on the first point, disagree on the second, i really want to be able to wrap from the last desktop to the first and modelling it as an X sided ring was a good idea. inexplicably android doesn't wrap around by default but the Microsoft launcher for it does
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my personal shame is that i just don't "get" virtual desktops and have never used them in any sort of effective manner in my workflow.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:inexplicably android doesn't wrap around by default but the Microsoft launcher for it does actually this might not be true because as some funny tech poo poo: Google change and break things in android all the time and two phones with an identical os version work completely differently!
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Neito posted:my personal shame is that i just don't "get" virtual desktops and have never used them in any sort of effective manner in my workflow. virtual desktops are pretty pointless unless you have some dumb linux poo poo that has terrible windowing.
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Neito posted:my personal shame is that i just don't "get" virtual desktops and have never used them in any sort of effective manner in my workflow. me too
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echinopsis posted:I remermber some old disney thing where mickey donald and maybe goofy go up the beanstalk and doesnt the giant roll up one of them?? donald duck is my spirit animal
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Volmarias posted:dnssec ceremony of the keys dns key party
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akadajet posted:donald duck is my spirit animal because he also refuses to wear pants?
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duz posted:because he also refuses to wear pants? pantsless and unreasonably angry all of the time
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akadajet posted:pantsless and unreasonably angry all of the time
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compiz was basically linux nerds going "ok, so we don't have games, but we do have some halfassed 3d support now. what do we do?"
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Using all 600 watts of a 4090, forcing my air conditioner to turn on in January just so I can see the gimp windows jiggle jiggled again
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Neito posted:my personal shame is that i just don't "get" virtual desktops and have never used them in any sort of effective manner in my workflow. i basically use it as a namespace for programs so i only have to alt tab through the threeish ones i contextually need (eg editor, terminal, browser window on my dev workspace; slack/calendar/email on my other workspace; third workspace with personal user browser and steam for loving around when i'm taking a break) instead of having to wade through 9 icons to find the thing i need on a monoworkspace setup
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nudgenudgetilt posted:compiz was basically linux nerds going "ok, so we don't have games, but we do have some halfassed 3d support now. what do we do?" linux nerds looking at the osx aqua ui and taking the worst parts to reimplement poorly
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apparently there's a whole wiki about the eas and ebs and i'm rather addicted for no reason: https://emergencyalertsystem.fandom.com/wiki/Screens_of_the_EAS#Station_slide_(1997-present)
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akadajet posted:linux nerds looking at the osx aqua ui and taking the worst parts to reimplement poorly eehhhh as always its linux nerds looking at X and saying "let the user decide" and writing a shitload of tooling to let the user decide
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Jabor posted:yeah it's great wobbly windows worked fine for me
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running the windows 98 se installer multiple times because it would crash
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Unsure if The Helpdesk Call of Cthulhu counts here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWP_vQRMkuU
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Gentle Autist posted:farting about with your autoexec.bat and config.sys to try and free up as much conventional memory as possible dos=high,umb
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that program which let you use your gmail as a remote hdd
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Wild EEPROM posted:that program which let you use your gmail as a remote hdd Lmao
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Wild EEPROM posted:that program which let you use your gmail as a remote hdd lol I think I remember this someone should do one with data encoded into tweets
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Wild EEPROM posted:that program which let you use your gmail as a remote hdd i remember one time giving a buddy an account on my FTP server then one evening while i was remoted into the server i looked at the FTP monitor and saw a shitload of crazy traffic. just constant disconnects and reconnects. "lol dude what loving FTP client are you using??" turned out he was playing with having the FTP connection mounted as a filesystem, lol
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Hed posted:bragging about constant angular velocity CD readers. the kenwood 72x truex cdrom drive beam splitting just wasn't ready for prime time, the failure rate was spectacular
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Beeftweeter posted:trillian 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:someone should do one with data encoded into tweets someone did a "best of show hack" that uses google sheets as a mountable fuse file system: https://github.com/GunshipPenguin/spreadsheetfs apparently, spreadsheets don't count towards your default google cloud storage limit of 15 GB 
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