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3D Megadoodoo posted:Porn goes in C:\[alt+255]\ kiddo. Recommend against typing "kiddo" immediately after your porn directory path unless you're bucking for a mod position
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Sweevo posted:Still better than the one that are videos of someone typing onto Notepad because they don't want to speak on camera. Ultimate version would be typing into a blog post submission form, then closing the tab at the end of the video.
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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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The Aliexpress Thread: Support your local landfill
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Jul 5, 2020 14:58
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LifeSunDeath posted:NO I mean like a full 32fps (whatever the cinematic standard was) full length flipbook. I'm not sure a book would work so well at 32fps, but maybe you could attach the images linearly, then use a motor to pull them past your eyes really fast. Hell, maybe instead of just looking at the tiny images in the flipbook, we could make each image transparent, and shine a light through them, so the images get displayed up on the wall way bigger!
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Browsing through that page my primary takeaway is "These guys were definitely into legs". This is some Twin Peaks poo poo though: 
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I hate to contribute to the monthly mp3 player discussion, but you can still buy the SanDisk Clip Jam for like $30 on Amazon. It's tiny, like 1" by 2", takes a microSD card, and does pretty good with both music and audiobooks (I've been listening to The Lord of the Rings on and off for a couple months now). Battery lasts forever... I took mine on a two week trip to India and I'm not sure I ever charged it.
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Imagined posted:Actually it kind of feels like cars just don't get broken into as often as they used to in general. It's been almost 20 years since the last time it happened to me, and I can't remember the last time anyone I know told me it happened to them, but in the 90s and early 2000s it feels like it was really common. Both my pickup and my wife's car have been broken into while sitting in our driveway, a total of 3 break-ins over the last 3 years. The pickup got a screwdriver jammed in the driver's side lock (loving up the sheet metal, wish they'd have just busted a window since I have $0 glass deductible...), but our brain genius thief couldn't figure out how to disconnect the antenna cable from my ham radio so he left it dangling and just took the truck's owner's manual instead. One of my wife's friends had her car broken into multiple times within a couple months at the university parking lot. Albuquerque's full of scumbag addicts who'll happily do $1000 of damage in exchange for a couple bucks from the center console, though. Crazy high auto burglary rates down here.
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Jul 10, 2020 17:17
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Aug 11, 2020 22:40
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RC and Moon Pie posted:That's some combination of VCRs, bulky cable boxes, CD changers and CDIs. Whatever it is, there are way too many of them. Welcome to the homes of all my friends in the late 90s / early 2000s, 5 different remote controls scattered across the coffee table and an elaborate ritual to align video/audio inputs and outputs to watch the goddamn TV.
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Aug 12, 2020 02:35
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Cojawfee posted:I had my own TV in my room for my Nintendo that had a VHF and UHF dial. A quick glance at wikipedia says that UHF didn't really take off because older sets didn't have the UHF dial, so people wouldn't be getting these UHF channels until they decided to upgrade their TV. Considering how expensive TVs were then, people probably weren't likely to upgrade their TVs that often. Because of that, stations weren't really interested in the UHF licenses. By the time I got this TV, it was really old. I think it was my aunt's old TV. Old enough that I had to use a RCA to RF to antenna adapter to plug my N64 into it. I have a little old black and white TV from the 70s and even it has a UHF dial. I got it at a thrift store and somebody had installed a little after-market board to take direct composite video input (originally for a computer)... so I hacked in RCA audio input too and now presumably have one of the only mid-70s TVs with full RCA audio/video input.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:05
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Goober Peas posted:Does anyone still do the rabbit urine pregnancy test anymore? That's what they were doing back in the 70s when I was born. You into that? I... might know a guy. of course nobody does that anymore. the rabbit test checked the rabbit's response to hCG; the little test sticks check for the same hormone but doesn't involve haruspicy
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Cojawfee posted:Didn't the rabbit test involve killing the rabbit? At least that's what M*A*S*H taught me. Yes, you have to examine its ovaries. This tends to be hard on the rabbit. (Yes, you could do a hysterectomy on the rabbit, but presumably that particular rabbit's entire raison d'etre is to provide ovaries for pregnancy tests...)
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Sep 4, 2020 17:18
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Cojawfee posted:I think he means the preset buttons. From a cursory search, it seems like each button was its own tuner, and when you pushed it in, the radio would use that button to tune the radio. I have an old short/medium wave console radio which does indeed work like this--it has a bunch of little capacitors that are switched in when you press the button. However, setting the presents involves poking a screwdriver through a hole in the front of the case and twiddling until you find the right setting. God knows how the car radios did it, because as I recall they would also move the needle to the appropriate frequency on the dial. I'm sure it was some sort of complex yet surprisingly sturdy mechanical linkage.
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Regarding laserdiscs, I found A Clockwork Orange at Weird Stuff in San Jose and bought it because I liked the big-format cover art. Then I posted an ad on craigslist asking if anyone had a player... and some guy brought me a very nice LD player and a box full of movies, for free. Over half of them are Disney, including Japanese releases of Bambi and Song of the South, but there was also Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, and a few other good ones. Maybe I just got lucky because I was in the SF bay area, but anybody looking for a player or discs might want to try it. 2001 would be a good watch on LD but that has to be at least two discs, right?
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Sep 22, 2020 15:33
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SubG posted:Is that the Criterion LD with a commentary track that's the commentary in one stereo channel and the Japanese dub in the other? Now I'll have to check. It definitely has a commentary track.
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Humphreys posted:Criterion are known for being some of the best versions of a movie on LD. I have 1 and it's wasted on Chasing Amy. Except the Taxi Driver I have in the post but I can't judge that yet. It is indeed the Criterion version. I haven't watched it in a long time, so maybe it's time to try the commentary track.
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Remulak posted:
Holy gently caress, I'm pretty sure I have two copies of that. Who's buying these? Obsessive Disney collectors? Racists? The Venn diagram intersection of those two? I'm seeing that these sell for $200 or so pretty regularly, now I have to decide if I want to keep it because Disney wants to memory-hole it so badly, or if I should sell it because I don't want to be "that guy with the racist movies on Laserdisc", or what.
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Sep 23, 2020 19:09
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Turns out I have one copy of Song of the South, and two of Bambi. Still don't know why a person would want two copies of Bambi. Eliminates the "keep one, sell one" option. edit: it definitely looks like there are UFOs in the sky on that cover, those are some funky clouds. Pham Nuwen has a new favorite as of 19:20 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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For a while I'd have a cron job print out the weather every morning on a dot-matrix printer, which would wake me up pretty well. I don't think my roommate appreciated it.
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Wasabi the J posted:Oh man blowing classmates minds in flash games by hitting tab to find hidden buttons. Holding down tab through the entire Strong Bad email video because you don't want to miss an easter egg.
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Iron Crowned posted:That is something I would have gutted and kept the chassis for, with the intent of modding it into a Fallout terminal. Of course I suck at that, so it would have just ended up left behind the next time I moved. I owned one for a while. Beautiful machine with a nice keyboard (if you google it, you'll see why vi uses hjkl for cursor movement), but the flyback transformer was hosed and it made a terrible whine. My eyes would start watering after a few minutes of use. I sold it to an old computer nerd whose high-frequency hearing was sufficiently gone that he didn't care. Gutting a functional ADM-3 would be a crime. They were made entirely with discrete 7400-series logic ICs, if I remember right, which is quite an achievement. Because they're just serial terminals, you could have your Fallout terminal with a USB-serial adapter and a couple serial adapters... hell, you could most likely tuck a Raspberry Pi or similar inside the case, there was quite a bit of space.
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I want to see the front of that case... it looks exactly like the Gateway 2000 486 I bought from Goodwill as my Linux box. The power switch was so goddamn satisfying.
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Dick Trauma posted:Enjoy your sour lamp grapes while I read your posts from THE FUTURRRRRRRRE! I'm the slumped posture of the guy on the right as he tries to simultaneously sit close enough to press the buttons comfortably, but low enough to read the screen without that shade on top getting in the way.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Thrift store find today: I'm looking at the knobs on the right... is it also a VHF/UHF TV receiver? Neat, if so.
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super nailgun posted:This is some pretty good obsolete tech if anyone is looking to expand their collection. A pair of DECwriter IV's, one new old stock. Price isn't too bad either. I'm currently in the area and could pick them up, but I don't have space. Seller seems to think they're typewriters, but they're serial terminals... I've wanted one but my wife will not approve in our apartment.
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I didn't do a ton of shopping in Japan, so I had assumed that the constantly repeating jingle was just a quirk of Bic Camera. Do they all do it, and WHY?
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Computer viking posted:I thought the speed benefits of non-qwerty layouts had shrunk to near insignificance after closer study? It was always nerdy circle-jerking. "QWERTY? How pedestrian. I use DVORAK" (well, more like "i ufe DRoRAK" because I never knew anyone who actually got good at an alternate keyboard layout). Besides, it's extremely rare for me to be constantly typing at top speed for any length of time. If I'm coding, I'm usually stopping to think about what comes next, picking variable names, etc. If I'm writing prose, then I'm stopping to think about what the hell I'm writing. I spend far more time not-typing than I do typing, and I type way more than most people do. Maybe alternate layouts would have made more sense back when "typist" was still a job and you could spend your whole day transcribing words verbatim from another document.
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Rectus posted:It would be nice to have a single handed keyboard just so you don't have to take your other hand of the mouse to type something. Having to relocate your hand twice every time you need to type something just adds extra steps to a lot of computer use. I bought the Twiddler 3 chording keyboard when it came out. It's held to your hand with a strap so you don't even need a desk, and there's a tiny joystick thing on the top that you can use to move the cursor. The problem is that you have to learn basically all the chords to be able to type worth a drat, AND the default chords are extremely bad so you need to load an alternate chordmap from some rando's github. I've never been able to justify the hit to my typing speed long enough to properly learn it. It does seem like it would be really useful to hit hotkeys in something like Photoshop while holding the mouse in the other hand. I know the earliest systems with mice--Engelbart's NLS, PARC's Alto--all came with a little chording keyset to complement the mouse; it looked like 5 piano keys and I think you basically just entered the binary representation of the desired character.
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R.L. Stine posted:Y'all post for pages and pages about boring Trinitrons and I can't post a beautiful green ogre? Will these fit your demands then? VNC is cheating! It reminds me a bit of the Phillips IS-2630, a failed "screen phone" developed by Phillips+Lucent in the late 90s. It's hard to find any good contemporary pictures, but they ran Bell Labs' Inferno operating system. It wasn't for video calls, the screen was so you could have a nice contacts list and other utilities. When the project got canned, somebody acquired a bunch of them for cheap and resold them as Linux development toys, back in a time when ARM was kind of exotic. Here's a picture from an ebay auction, note that the coiled cable you see below the keyboard is for the (missing) handset--the keyboard was infrared.  Arsenic Lupin posted:Weren't Audreys being sold as the home/kitchen hub for use with recipes (it's always recipes) and browsing? Proposal: We'll make purpose-built kitchen computers to make managing recipes more convenient! Reality: A cheap hardbound notebook or a box of index cards works better than any existing software recipe managers
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LifeSunDeath posted:that's one hell of a fax machine Can't see any indication that it did faxes, but it did apparently have a modem built-in, and a web browser and email client were included.
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When the gently caress are we bringing back the hose & codpiece combo anyway? Fashion is cyclical, and I think we've spent enough time on the whole "trousers" thing.
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Trabant posted:This isn't lefty-vs-righty as much as something I've only seen in the US, this death grip on pencils that's aparently called "lateral quadrupod": Fascist teachers forcing me to hold the pencil one particular way--what does it matter as long as the results are there??? *grips pencil in fist, uses other hand to move paper underneath the pencil* Joking aside I see the "dynamic quadrupod" a lot; it looks intensely uncomfortable and also like you're a little scared of the pencil. I used the "dynamic tripod" as God intended, but that didn't stop me from gripping the pencil hard enough to develop a pretty significant callus on my middle finger.
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I've probably posted about it before but our keyboarding class had a leaderboard on the door and by god that motivated me pretty well--I spent most of the quarter fighting for first place. If I remember right, we'd print off what we typed each day and the teacher would score it by hand, then at the end of each week he'd print the new totals and tape them to the door. It was honor system to not correct your errors, but you were better off leaving the mistakes and just typing more anyway.
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ynohtna posted:Indiana JPG and the temple of TIFF: Mentions a Super Mario 64 PC port which I'd never heard of... I'd kind of assumed N64 emulators had to be pretty good these days, so I guess the main advantage would be that you can mod in the higher-res textures more easily?
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I've got unlimited PTO and I do take time off... but it's a very small company, a total of 5 technical employees and the 2 founders. I think in a bigger company, it's a drat good strategy for the company because instead of feeling like you're entitled to X days a year, you can end up feeling like you're imposing on your co-workers by taking time off. I don't take a lot of time, probably 10 days a year if you don't include the Christmas shutdown and federal holidays. No surprise, the Frenchman is a lot better about taking time off than the rest of us.
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sarcastx posted:I now have a fully working OG Nomad Jukebox (mfd 2000) and a way to get music onto it. A github repository is pretty much exactly what you want. Write a nice detailed README and you're off to the races.
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but I do also have an image of some kid's whole 6GB HDD complete with awful pirated MP3s, complete with spammy metadata. 
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endocriminologist posted:You can get one of those terrible Chinese emulation handhelds with fake wood Why not just use bamboo like every other cheap wooden thing? Fake wood won't develop that nice patina of sweat and cheeto dust.
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mobby_6kl posted:Aww awesome! I have a Zen Xtra that still works fine and has a somewhat useable battery even and of course all the original 128kbps music on it. I recall back in the day there was some software called Notmad Explorer or something that let you use it instead of the original Creative crap so that might be an alternative, but I never ended up paying for it. So any guide on how to get everything working on a modern PC would be great. The only way I was able to interact with my Zen Xtra was by writing scripts around libnjb's command-line tools: http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/. There's a GUI application called "gnomad2" but it crashes all the drat time; you're better off scripting. (the tools are packaged in Debian and Ubuntu as "libnjb-tools")
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Mescal posted:that's so mean imagine rationing out your porn tape...
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