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I would ask my online buddies, and by online I mean the people on hot city BBS (gilroy, california), for help when I got really badly into the weeds of config.sys/autoexec.bat nonsense which reminds me of another funny tech poo poo: the absolute minimal DOS install could be missing both edit.exe and edlin.exe, and if you needed to fix a problem with one of these .bat or .sys files, you could still do it by using: code:
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My pencil case from undergrad, technically a Sony product??
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Leperflesh posted:I would ask my online buddies, and by online I mean the people on hot city BBS (gilroy, california), for help when I got really badly into the weeds of config.sys/autoexec.bat nonsense i forgot about copy con but I used to do it for some reason that i definitely can't remember
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lol this is the most niche of niche poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2Si7D3JS0
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soundfonts. if we still relied on MIDI think of the DLC creative labs could have 
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git apologist posted:i forgot about copy con but I used to do it for some reason that i definitely can't remember still to this day even on windows 11 22h2 it wont let you name a file or folder "con" the legacy lives on
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol this is the most niche of niche poo poo drat I'd never heard of cd text, what an actual good idea. classic Sony.
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I had a cd burner and car cd player (sony) that did cd text and seeing the track name on the screen was loving awesome
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picasa is one of the few things i was actively using when google bought it and was enraged when they shut it down because no other image library software at the time did what i was using picasa for
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njsykora posted:picasa is one of the few things i was actively using when google bought it and was enraged when they shut it down because no other image library software at the time did what i was using picasa for same here. it was very good for me at the time and it felt like years before something similar came along
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yeah, that was a good one. the old google chat client that was like 120kB and had zero UI latency was pretty nice too.
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i switched away from google photos when i realized i'd somehow turned on the "space optimizer" option for like 18 months. i don't remember ever turning it on; i made sure it was off when they first rolled out that option and my photos from then were "original quality" so i think it was when i migrated to a new phone and then was "fixed" when I moved to a newer phone after that. i never actually switched it to "original quality" either after the very first time i did; i only think it was on because i noticed a lot of my photos were set to "space optimizer" individually even though the option was off in my settings. now i pay for icloud instead and use apple photos. gently caress you google.
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i use syncthing to store my pictures on a big server with my wife. well, i would if i had a wife, anyway.
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apple is far from perfect but i appreciate they still support the idea of having your photos stored both locally and in the cloud. when i was still using google photos i was doing a google takeout export every few months because afaik they don't let you sync photos locally anymore.
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lol better make sure icloud isn't transcoding your stuff to HEIC/HEVC then
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my mom lost what little faith she had in computers when my dad bought her a new PC and she couldn’t install Picasa on it
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i have seen more normies get ready to climb a clock tower over Picasa and Shutterfly than any other software products or services period, by like a factor of 10 those of us not infected with the internet poison really like the pictures and dislike them going away.
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Beeftweeter posted:lol better make sure icloud isn't transcoding your stuff to HEIC/HEVC then where did you get the idea it does? are you thinking about when they changed the camera default to heic but continued to not change the format of existing files and if you changed it back to jpeg it would respect that and not change it again? and either way it was preserving the photos at the highest resolution you saved them as? is that the one? anyway my stuff is already in heic/hevc 
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speaking of repair chat every few months here they run a repair café (i think this is a trend) where nerds go to a room and sit behind tables and the public comes in with busted poo poo to get fixed at low/no cost, depending
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that's really cool
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I would very much like to participate in something like that.
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Sagebrush posted:I would very much like to participate in something like that. couldn’t you just ask one of your students to fix your stuff? for extra credit or something
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Roosevelt posted:couldn’t you just ask one of your students to fix your stuff? for extra credit or something the students who can't use a mouse and make PDFs out of phone photos?
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Sagebrush posted:I would very much like to participate in something like that. good lord yes me too, it's awesome
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it’s a movement! sort of. y’all should try starting one near you. https://www.repaircafe.org/en/
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that’s dope af, i can help with bicycles and jewelry and some electronics maybe!
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most bike fixes are super easy. replace inner tube (maybe also rim tape), twist some barrel adjusters, oil things up, brake pads, you are like 80% of the way there.
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i missed radioshack chat but my solution was to just buy the place out by getting the 70-90% closing discount if i purchased the cabinets whole and rolled them out to the car got all the soldering and arduino stuff too
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the white house running on dial-up and fuzzy memory in the year 2023
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DJ Commie posted:i missed radioshack chat but my solution was to just buy the place out by getting the 70-90% closing discount if i purchased the cabinets whole and rolled them out to the car that’s a good score, the hoarder inside me says, next to boxes of my own unused components.
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:that’s a good score, the hoarder inside me says, next to boxes of my own unused components. it has been exactly like you said, currently it is in a storage shed since a kiddo took over the room
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DELETE CASCADE posted:most bike fixes are super easy. replace inner tube (maybe also rim tape), twist some barrel adjusters, oil things up, brake pads, you are like 80% of the way there. dont oil the brake pads tho
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DJ Commie posted:i missed radioshack chat but my solution was to just buy the place out by getting the 70-90% closing discount if i purchased the cabinets whole and rolled them out to the car industrial shelving and storage at a discount is always a win. that stuff is surprisingly expensive
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