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3D Megadoodoo posted:Not related to your question but just remembered when a "editor-in-chief of a local paper" (of which there are like three so I guess that's as close to identifying someone without identifying them in the news) was convicted of making a child porn video and he and some other guys recruited the kid via Teksti-TV classifieds 
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Hey this is neato! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u05gxIWYv8k
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Humphreys posted:Hey this is neato! If someone pulled this out in the wild to make a call, it would be pretty incredible.
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Around 2010 I had a flip phone that was spring loaded. I was a little self conscious opening it in public at first. Nokia 6126 Guy Axlerod has a new favorite as of 15:57 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 15:47
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Guy Axlerod posted:Around 2010 I had a flip phone that was spring loaded. I was a little self conscious opening it in public at first. Same except around 200? Spring-loaded and voice-operated   e: Must've been before 2002 because I paid for it in marks.
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May 21, 2020 15:51
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Duck your T9 numeric keypad bulk7448 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwGdKSNlgA
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Moo the cow posted:Duck your T9 numeric keypad bulk7448 I love that the word for keyboard in some language is apparently klawiatura.
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I really miss slide-out keyboards. I have never gotten fully used to inferior screen typing.
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My wife had an e-ink phone that flipped two ways. Here's a video that shows it, it was pretty neat for the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4FRZvxqvY&t=185s Skip to 4:30 to see the how the buttons changed depending on what functions you were using.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Around 2010 I had a flip phone that was spring loaded. I was a little self conscious opening it in public at first. I got real good at this lil move with flip phones where I'd toss it with a sharp wrist snap and it'd flip and spin in the air before landing open in my hand worked with the generic-looking silver samsungs super well after the hinge had loosened up a bit
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Scarodactyl posted:I really miss slide-out keyboards. I have never gotten fully used to inferior screen typing. I have a friend who is the one remaining non-business consumer of Blackberrys for this reason
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May 21, 2020 17:00
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Scarodactyl posted:I really miss slide-out keyboards. I have never gotten fully used to inferior screen typing. seriously. I still can't type on touchscreens without a ton of errors, I was much faster / more accurate on my old physical keyboard phones.
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May 21, 2020 17:27
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Code Jockey posted:seriously. I still can't type on touchscreens without a ton of errors, I was much faster / more accurate on my old physical keyboard phones. I held out using a blackberry for way too long. Had a nice job that bought me a first gen iphone and I just went right back to blackberry when I quit working there.
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Were there any spring loaded slider phones other than the Samsung matrix one? Supposedly the plan for the modern Nokia 8110 was to give it a spring loaded mechanism like the prop in the original Matrix but they scrapped that idea pretty early on bc it would've made the handset nearly an inch thicker.
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Nocheez posted:My wife had an e-ink phone that flipped two ways. Here's a video that shows it, it was pretty neat for the time.
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Nocheez posted:My wife had an e-ink phone that flipped two ways. Here's a video that shows it, it was pretty neat for the time. I had one of those and it was fantastic, I kept it as long as I could, until everything went smartphones.
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Pretty good posted:Were there any spring loaded slider phones other than the Samsung matrix one? The Nokia 7110 had a spring loaded slider. One of the few phones I had which I do kinda miss. Also the one I had was imported from Hong Kong and could write Chinese using basically 5 (I think) different strokes and then a menu of matching characters, which I thought was pretty impressive in terms of dictionary/auto-complete-type of thing. (Not that I can read/write Chinese, so it may well have just been taunting me the entire time with what characters it suggested)
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If that's what I'm thinking of, it's still a pretty standard way to write Chinese on phones. Chinese characters (and Japanese kanji for that matter) are actually very systematic in how you write them (less so in how you say them or what they mean). You do specific strokes in specific orders, so after a few strokes it's pretty easy for a computer to guess what you want to write.
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Code Jockey posted:seriously. I still can't type on touchscreens without a ton of errors, I was much faster / more accurate on my old physical keyboard phones. Have you tried one of the swype keyboards? That's the only thing that got me to be able to "type" accurately on a smartphone.
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Android supports swiping by default, you might just need to enable it.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Same except around 200? I had this exact same phone around 2003. I had a habit of repeatedly flipping it when bored, so the springs died and only stayed closed with the help of a rubber band. It was much less cool after that.
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I probably don't need these in my drawer of useful computer cables. Balls balls balls.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Have you tried one of the swype keyboards? That's the only thing that got me to be able to "type" accurately on a smartphone. yeah and it's better but ehhhh I miss a keyboard
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Rexxed posted:I probably don't need these in my drawer of useful computer cables. Balls balls balls. You never know when you need a mouse. Although I keep mine sorted by type/system in boxes. Well, I never know when I need a mouse. e: I really want to do an optical conversion for one of my Amiga mouses, to go with my nice-keyboard Amiga. But it costs moneys.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You never know when you need a mouse. Although I keep mine sorted by type/system in boxes. Yeah they're going into the storage box with the DAT drive and stuff. One day I'll have a little more space to set the 386, 486, pentium, pentium II machines with appropriate accessories. I only have three CRTs, though. I have an older serial mouse I like a lot more than those three ps/2 serial compatible mice.
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Rexxed posted:Yeah they're going into the storage box with the DAT drive and stuff. One day I'll have a little more space to set the 386, 486, pentium, pentium II machines with appropriate accessories. I only have three CRTs, though. I have an older serial mouse I like a lot more than those three ps/2 serial compatible mice. I was an idiot and threw away my Nokia CRT monitor years ago. I could've had a complete Nokia Mikromikko 286 but nah need the space. (I didn't need the space.)
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Rexxed posted:I probably don't need these in my drawer of useful computer cables. Balls balls balls. isn't the PS/2 connection for mice and keyboards still perfectly fine, assuming you still have one on your motherboard? those mice might not have good dpi or anything but they might still be serviceable for a mom computer
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Shibawanko posted:isn't the PS/2 connection for mice and keyboards still perfectly fine, assuming you still have one on your motherboard? those mice might not have good dpi or anything but they might still be serviceable for a mom computer An USB adapter will also work fine.
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I've had a few situations where a ps/2 keyboard was useful to get into the bios when a PC wouldn't boot far enough to turn on the USB ports.
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Hell my midrange like 2018 Intel motherboard came with a PS/2 connection because some gamer pros swear it’s better than USB with less lag. And I’ve already used it a couple times.
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Arivia posted:Hell my midrange like 2018 Intel motherboard came with a PS/2 connection because some gamer pros swear it’s better than USB with less lag. And I’ve already used it a couple times. That board? the Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS
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bring back old gbs posted:I just bought a brand new x570 mobo this year and it has a single PS/2 port with split purple/green marking on it. Yep. Mine is the ASUS Z270E Strix.
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PS/2 still works better than USB with a lot of KVM switches too.
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I use a 3-button Logitech PS/2 mouse on my work computer because I got used to middle-click pasting under Linux two decades ago and find it awkward with a scrollwheel.
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Rexxed posted:I probably don't need these in my drawer of useful computer cables. Balls balls balls. I kind of miss the physical resistance of moving a classic ballmouse. I don't miss cleaning gunk out of it every other day
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Pretty good posted:Were there any spring loaded slider phones other than the Samsung matrix one? I used to work at a coffee shop that sold cell phones and some accessories (long stupid story). We sold faceplates for Nokia 5190's that had a spring loaded slide out cover.
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Shibawanko posted:isn't the PS/2 connection for mice and keyboards still perfectly fine, assuming you still have one on your motherboard? those mice might not have good dpi or anything but they might still be serviceable for a mom computer Yeah they still work, the issue is more that they've got physical balls and nobody wants to put with the maintenance on those any more. I had my mother set up with a yellow steelseries optical mostly because it was a nice color she liked and it was uncomplicated. My dad's got an MX Master and I'm sure he's never used half the buttons on it but he likes it.
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Lowen SoDium posted:I used to work at a coffee shop that sold cell phones and some accessories (long stupid story). We sold faceplates for Nokia 5190's that had a spring loaded slide out cover. Oh poo poo I remember those! I miss my 5190. I got a 6190 after it:  and in true old-Nokia tradition, it was rock solid and totally indestructible. I remember spending days trying to figure out how to upload custom carrier logos to it. Anyone remember custom carrier logos / boot up logos? 
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Wow, two SW episode 1 logos, they really went all in.
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Code Jockey posted:and in true old-Nokia tradition, it was rock solid and totally indestructible. I remember spending days trying to figure out how to upload custom carrier logos to it. Anyone remember custom carrier logos / boot up logos? I deleted a whole folder of them off an old HDD literally 2 months ago on the grounds of what the hell was I keeping them for?
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