Alhazred posted:

I recently bought a new laptop, it has a dvd-rom drive.

hackbunny posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

My Lovely Horse posted:

I almost entirely automated a job that was 90% sitting around watching progress bars to begin with, and productivity is through the roof. Six hours a day I browse the forums and listen to music on youtube, and we're five months ahead of schedule. Sometimes I look around the office and wonder if it's me or if they're all just loving around. I don't even know what you're supposed to do for eight hours straight.

Kelp Me! posted:

Cities: Skylines is relaxing as hell, I'm a huge fan of it, and I'm in the camp that says SC2K was the last good one. It feels very natural, I love the road-drawing possibilities, and it really plays the most like SC2K updated for today.

Traffic is really the endgame in it though, and it's something I'm still struggling with. I mean look at some of the poo poo people do:

treiz01 posted:

If you want the 2016 macbook pro, USB adapters.

No seriously, it doesn't have any loving traditional usb ports, just usb type C.

DicktheCat posted:

Word.

Every time they come up, I marvel at the design. I want to gut one and put the best poo poo I can buy in that sucker and, I dunno, be a moron carrying around their computer+ a bag full of cables. gently caress you, it's cool!

Lurking Haro posted:

Give it some more time

https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/794495951113220096

Sentient Data posted:

I'm pissed off at the move to a cashless society, because it will make less people go to casinos and a big part of my plans for post-retirement days revolve around being a constant feature in poker rooms. Less easy cash to chips means less rubes in casinos means less freash meat for the poker grinder. Obviously people will just use a debit or credit card to get a slip or something like that, but a slot machine coupon will burn a hell of a lot less of a hole in a person's pocket than some literal cash won at the blackjack table

Kwyndig posted:

Counterfeiters aren't that smart, usually, that's why they get caught. Also, as long as you defeat the security measure they're trained to check and it 'looks' okay a cashier isn't going to scrutinize your money. It's only anti-counterfeit cops who spend time poring over bills to spot the flaws. This makes $100 the best value to counterfeit because ink and 'paper' cost money, and you don't take up counterfeiting because you're already rich (if you are a rich counterfeiter, you sell the bills to other criminals, less risk).

WickedHate posted:

Cyberpunk in general often has a somewhat Japanese aesthetic because people in the 80s were convinced Japan was about to take over the world economically. Hilarious in retrospect, but the neat flavor has stuck because the defining works of the genre like Neuromancer and Blade Runner had it.

Cyberpunk aesthetic is kind of an outdated future in it's own way, like a raygun gothic for the eighties. Johnny Mnemonic was all about like, being able to store entire kilobytes in your head. Micro VHS tapes. Cars with gull wing doors.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Really people want a better plane experience, which is never going to happen.

Vanagoon posted:

In the days where flash memory was still ruinously expensive, i'd say it was a pretty good idea.

whiteyfats posted:

The fifth gen went to some weird places. Everybody smelled blood in the water towards the end of the SNES/Genesis era.

Platystemon posted:

Windows ME

Sam Hall posted:

Oh hey, I've got the keyboard off that Acer computer. Found it at Savers for 2 bux. Turns out it's actually pretty nice; uses clicky white Alps switches and is very solidly constructed.



camers's flash makes it look yellower than it actually is but it could still probably do with a bit of peroxide+uv.

Three-Phase posted:

Not having an RS232 port is a PITA talking to tons of industrial equipment.

I have used USB-R232 converters but the quality runs from “OK” to “complete garbage”.

Humphreys posted:

I used to love the 'no cameras' signs at industrial sites I would work for.

I loved watching the gate guards eyes light up when I have 3 DSLRs hanging off straps and my coworker has a video camera when we walked up to sign in. They ultimately won because I was creating my own hell: signing in on documentation I designed, watch a site induction I filmed the year prior, then do a eLearning test we also developed. Being the user of poo poo you make (and cannot have fun with most times due to corporate style guides and restrictions) is terrible. Then realising you are there to make an updated version of the exact same poo poo

Vic posted:

Gaslighting friends is the prank of today.

Vavrek posted:

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

Horse Clocks posted:

Cables, why are all cables still dumb as poo poo?


then some genius decided to come up with usb-c. Also great, no superposition plugs.

mostlygray posted:

Trabant posted:

You don't get it, he's Steve McQueen reborn.