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probably an iambic keyer, which is what I use. Similar to the bug, two vertical switches with VERY close contacts; a few thou. You don't really feel any perceptible motion on a properly adjusted paddle. I have to re-adjust the contacts on mine when the seasons change. Just two dumb switches that go to a small logic circuit hold down the right paddle and you get dashes sent forever hold down the left and you get dots sent forever hold down both and it alternates between the two, hence the 'iambic' moniker. So if you want to send Y (dash dot dash dash) you hold right, tap left, and let go of right after the third dash. It's super efficient and you can absolutely shred once you learn it. I can copy about 13-15 words per minute on my best day, but I can send at over 35 wpm. I used to practice by just sending everything that people typed in #yospos irc through a practice oscillator.
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Progressive JPEG posted:that vaporware phone that was supposed to have swappable modules someone unfriended me because i told them phonebloks was total vaporware
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:so do blackjack dealers dress like telegraph operators, or the other way around? they all wore the same green visor/eyeshade as accountants/bankers because candles and early light bulbs were harsh as gently caress and not conducive to someone staring at small text or focusing on a blackjack table all day. basically the blue-light glasses of the time, but it actually worked.
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Captain Foo posted:non-circular cds those incredibly fast cd drives that would detonate cheap CDs and blow plastic shards everywhere
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Captain Foo posted:non-circular cds umd carts lol
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I'd forgotten how gross 480i looks via composite on a low end tube TV.
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SYSV Fanfic posted:I'd forgotten how gross 480i looks via composite on a low end tube TV. my in-laws crappy circuit city house brand LCD TV crapped out a couple years ago. because they’re cheapskates who refuse to spend money they went to the basement and just pulled out a sony trinitron TV they inherited from my wife’s dead uncle in like 1994 they plugged their directv receiver into it via composite and surprisingly it doesn’t look that bad, 30 year old trinitron tubes turn out to be still pretty good
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I went fairly deep on a rather nice tv from best buy around 2004 and it had component in, i got a cable for xbox and ps2, and man, halo and ssx tricky looked on that thing at a level that i can only describe as "sure you can't read 12 point text on it, but these colors are great and there's zero flicker ok let's go down the mountain again"
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Jonny 290 posted:ssx tricky tricky was mindblowing e: also how i learned about plump djs graph fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Nov 19, 2021 03:15
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i literally wore out a ps2 tryin to get from 1.57 million points to 1.72 million points on particular tricky tracks
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Trying to play Dead Rising and Chromehounds on a 27" Magnavox regular rear end CRT is what made me drop $1000 for a 32" 720p Samsung LCD. That text was almost legible if you squinted just right. I stupidly put one of those credit card shaped CDs into an old HP PC and it annihilated that CD drive.
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Nov 19, 2021 04:36
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graph posted:tricky was mindblowing
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it IS tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time
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DELETE CASCADE posted:it IS tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time Penn and Teller won that chain fair and square
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micro center still stocking bottles of bawls in the soda coolers up by the checkouts like it's 2002
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i miss LAN parties. i won a copy of Hexen II when i was like 16 for staying up all night, it owned
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kitten smoothie posted:micro center still stocking bottles of bawls in the soda coolers up by the checkouts like it's 2002 micro center seems to generally be avoiding the trap that fry's fell into.
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microcenter needs to open a seattle location or hell, even portland. I'd take a portland microcenter
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wow their location list is both smaller and weirder than i thought it's a great store! they should have like a hundred of em
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Jonny 290 posted:wow their location list is both smaller and weirder than i thought i can't figure out how i live within a half hour of two of them. 
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I wish they’d reopen in the Bay Area, I live right by a nice-sized former Fry’s and it’d make an awesome Micro Center I’m hoping maybe Central Computer will expand into some of the old Fry’s locations
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Midjack posted:micro center seems to generally be avoiding the trap that fry's fell into. i don't know what micro center's secret sauce is but i'm sure it probably also involves resisting the urge to make your store look like a ziggurat
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kitten smoothie posted:micro center still stocking bottles of bawls in the soda coolers up by the checkouts like it's 2002 I had my first bawls at a microcenter literally this year so I'm grateful
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Midjack posted:micro center seems to generally be avoiding the trap that fry's fell into. they had their adapt or die moment some time ago. there was a point where they were feeling the sting from internet shops because they were selling generic, no-name white-box hardware at the same or higher price than name brand parts online, and they wouldn't have things like the then-new tnt video cards, but they would sell you an outdated s3 virge decelerator for it's original msrp. they revamped and have been going strong ever since
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also the death of radio shack + mc's quite competent diy/parts rack helped them a whole lot. if i need instant gratification resistors i go there for sure and there have been many times where i went in for some small parts and picked up other stuff since i was there
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the parts rack at the one nearest me is usually completely hosed over but the one in rockville is better maintained. but yeah, since radio shack is gone and lol at finding an electronics shop that isn't just ordering from mouser so if you need some resistors RIGHT NOW they're your only hope!
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still have dreams of stocking a box truck as an electronics shop and doing the food truck thing but for resistors and molex plugs and 3dp filament follow the twitter to find out where i'm parking today
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Jonny 290 posted:still have dreams of stocking a box truck as an electronics shop and doing the food truck thing but for resistors and molex plugs and 3dp filament should make em follow your ham broadcasts instead
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finger my .plan file for deetz
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Kitfox88 posted:should make em follow your ham broadcasts instead Now i'm wondering, it's against the rules to make transmissions for financial gain - but what if i just happened to have an APRS (ham radio lojack) transmitter on the truck and if you know where to look on aprs.fi you'll be able to find me. hmm
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there isn't a lot in terms of electronic components at my local microcenter, but it's a place where you can buy adafruit or similar maker stuff over the counter, and i can't think of any place like it. computer components are competitively priced compared to online and you have the benefit of getting the thing in your hot little hands now. you do get to pay the local sales tax, but it's basically a wash.
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posting winamp status to irc
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Jonny 290 posted:still have dreams of stocking a box truck as an electronics shop and doing the food truck thing but for resistors and molex plugs and 3dp filament Could prolly make a mint doing this in Seattle/SF/NYC.
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Progressive JPEG posted:posting winamp status to irc Forum threads for "currently listening to" Also: livejournal, posting with your current mood and current song fields filled in.
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MySpace top 8. I’m pretty sure I’ve said that in this thread. relatedly, the early pages of this thread
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i set up a myspace account back in the day, didn't know who tom was, so when he immediately friended me i assumed myspace was full of spambots and never used it again
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shoeberto posted:Forum threads for "currently listening to" I found my old livejournal a few years back. I used a special editor on Mac that was just for posting to lj lmao I was a scene kid too so it was extra sad, like legit depressing to read. especially cause all the posts were about girls, one of whom I married and divorced ten years later and reading this posts I probably should have never married her but youth gonna youth
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network solutions being the only registrar for com/net/org and costing $35 united states 1990s dollars per year and some kind of bizarre authentication where you had to send them an email from a From address that was listed in the domain whois or something?
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Progressive JPEG posted:network solutions being the only registrar for com/net/org and costing $35 united states 1990s dollars per year wasn’t there also some kind of paper form you had to mail in to create a handle? you definitely had to mail in a real paper check to pay for the registration
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