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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Doc Block posted:

poo poo, why did I not know that ecchi is divorced?

spending time "apart" (he's living in her basement) so they can ~find themselves~ i think

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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eric posted:

lol important people don't sit in an open office. they get a private one.

Also, AirPods and iPad were the best selling electronics on cyber monday. iPad is back baby!

yeah i bought an ipad on cyber monday to give to my dad for xmas, then today saw that costco has them for cheaper through the end of the month. lol owned

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

syscall girl posted:

there are plastic mbps

when did this happen? im struggling to think of one that wasn't aluminum

Shifty Pony posted:

yo check your credit card benefits. if you have a nice card it probably has price protection.

it usually doesn't cover if the lower price is a "cyber monday" type deal but should cover you if the higher price is.

that is cool. it is like a $6 difference so im not going to bother in this case, but i didnt know that was a thing :thumbsup: non sarcastically

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Endless Mike posted:

there's never been a plastic macbook pro. he probably put the p there by accident.

that makes sense. macbooks, ibooks, pre-G4 powerbooks, tibook lol. but not a macbook pro that i can think of

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

pram posted:

also i wanted one of these so bad and still do



oh man same. those were the diamondtron ones, right?

it would go perfect with my dual 1.25 mdd

i check craigslist every so often just in case :shobon:

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

a Cinema Display HD goes even more perfectly with the MDD, honestly

also, put a cheap 120GB SSD in your G4 through an IDE-SATA bridge, it loving flies

like everything you can do in Mac OS 9.2.2, MPW, CodeWarrior, Macintosh Common Lisp, etc. feels instantaneous, it’s quite something

those are the ones with the two feet up front and the kickstand, right? hsc had a little 15" one that i played around with for a bit, and it was TN garbage

i already have an ssd in the mdd via that same adapter, although it's a 40gb one since i did that before the bigger ones were affordable. really should get one of those cheap msata laptop pulls from ebay and stick it in there. probably do like a 128

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

the one with the kickstand yeah, the 17 was OK but the 23in Cinema HD is the sweet spot, I used the original clear/kickstand model for many years and then replaced it with an aluminum

120GB is the sweet spot since the ATA controller may not support 128GB or larger disks

its a fw800 mdd so its about as late as you can get. i figure my chances are good, but ill test it with a larger drive first

if the larger displays are ok, ill keep an eye out. still gonna want to look at a functioning one before buying one sight unseen at a swap meet or craigslist or w/e though

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

The Management posted:

I live in an area with the sun in the sky about 12 hours a day and moving in a predictable pattern, which allows me to determine general directions

i live in the same place most of the time, and i know where it is

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

The_Franz posted:

i've had it happen where the terminal has nfc capabilities and pops up the wallet when i hold my phone over it, but after a few seconds it just makes an obnoxious noise with CARD READ ERROR on the screen and won't work until i insert the actual card

you would think that the payment companies would incentivize retailers to support mobile payments since they basically eliminate the possibility of compromising accounts via skimming or hacking

this happened to me a couple days ago, but with a tap card. i saw the logo, held my card up to the reader, and it angrily beeped at me until i inserted it

Endless Mike posted:

yeah, if you happen to have a tap card, then you can use it at places that accept nfc payments. i don't know of any banks currently offering tap cards, but i haven't really bothered to look into it, so it's possible some do.

costco (citi) visa

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Agile Vector posted:

the image of a network of wires running from pocket to pocket is probably the most cyberpunk thing in theory

scott-e-vest lol

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

it's not just your wallet

watch, phone, etc

are stolen phones even worth anything, with how trivial it is to remotely lock them down? i guess you could salvage the screen, but that hardly seems worth the effort

and i dont think millenials wear watches either

i mean i do, but im a weirdo. and its like a $25 casio, so not exactly worth stealing

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

echinopsis posted:

what’s a minimum. like a minimum sale? wtf? I’ve never heard of that

minimum amount to use a credit card

when i worked retail while going to school, it was $5. under that amount, we would lose more money to the credit card fees than we would make from the sale, supposedly

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Sagebrush posted:

all cheddars are good cheddars as long as theyre aged at least a little

i got one from ireland that had little crystals of tyrosine all over it and man it was good

costco has coastal cheddar which is much like this and also good. english i think

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Sagebrush posted:

don't buy wireless chargers unless you want to microwave your brain every night

dude theyre in the khz range and inductively coupled. you aint gonna heat your brainmeats at all, even if you wear the qi mat on your head as you sleep

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

when did you move to berkeley sebastopol

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

orientate is just a british thing like how they mispronounce aluminum

can we blame them for "administrate" also?

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

lancemantis posted:

also what’s the temperature of chicken is broken English as gently caress and you didn’t nearly get what you deserved

lol what teh gently caress kind of argument is this, posted in hte no caps no punctuation post zone even. nobody conversationally speaks perfect queens english either, and natural language processing woudl be broken as hell if it were to require that

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

classic mac os has a feature that no other operating system has been able to match

files, folders, and open windows actually stay where you put them and persist across reboots

i dont think this is true if the resolution changes, say due to a fullscreen game or w/e. its common enough for apps to gently caress it up and leave it at 640x480 or whatever that i remember getting pretty good mileage out of the control strip resolution changer thing

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Boiled Water posted:

not for the poor folk on the receiving end of posts

only if they're chumps

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

itunes has always has a custom bespoke interface that breaks the pattern set by every other application

itunes is to apple as office is to microsoft

youd think more effort would be applied to prominent projects like that

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

SRQ posted:

my iphone 6 looks fine tho
so did my 4s

the screens have never been a bad point

i thought the screen on my 4 was great, but comparing it against my 5s when i got it made the 4 look super blue and washed out. the 5s and se both look fine to me tho

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

indigi posted:

sincere question: we just got a bunch of iphone sixes to do some bullshit inventory/time management tracking where I work, and these things cannot maintain a consistent connection to our wifi for jack poo poo. I assume they're refurbs or something, but is this a known problem with that generation of phones or something? cause my Xs has no problem with the wifi here

i dont know if its endemic to the model, but my brother's six has had all sorts of radio issues, including wifi

anecdata :eng101:

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

i wonder if the new remote app will finally add the elusive functionality of adjusting volume

Doesn’t the remote do this by IR blasting the tv? Can’t do that with your phone

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Ruffian Price posted:

you cannot customize the imac pro without the shittiest mouse known to man. only the keyboard is optional. it's like they know that poo poo is just gonna be left in the delivery box

they brought back the mighty mouse?

if you say the hockey puck you are wrong

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

r u ready to WALK posted:

I think the titmouse was pretty good for its time

when it got dirty, which was often, it would only scroll down but not up (or the other way around)

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Chris Knight posted:

can i interest you in a 900MHz accelerator card? otherwise it's going in the recycling. possibly other bits

if he doesnt want it, i too hoard mac trash. i wonder if it would work in a cube

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Wild EEPROM posted:

nice of you to volunteer to throw it into the trash for him

i have so many trash receptacles.

infernal machines posted:

wth chris, we're practically neighbours, how could you do me like this?

sounds like this guy does too, judging by his username

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

SRQ posted:

(also to answer the cube question: yes and no, you'd need a specific mounting bracket for it but it would fit the socket.)

I had a cube for about a week, I hated it because of the dumbly mounted CD drive and that it has no native audio out and requires a USB thing for it, which is loving daft.

yeah i know it would work (i think any g4 that is cool with 100mhz fsb will) but idk if it would survive with the cooling situation in there.

yeah the optical drive is weird; tons of unused/wasted space, especially after you replace the hdd with an msata ssd

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Beamed posted:

i would honestly probably buy an imac g3 if i stumbled into one nowadays. they're just so pretty and iconic. im a sucker

there are two 600mhz snow ones at excess, i think they want 50 each

seems like too much to me, but thats pretty fast for a G3

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

there’s also an iMac G4 on SF Bay Craigslist for cheap

and someone has been trying to get rid of an eMac (calling it an “Apple eMachine”)

excess has an emac too, but its a first gen (so 700mhz)

theyre ok but the g4 imac would be way cooler

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

excess also has a pair of gorgeous Nicolet 4094 & 4094A scopes



the Nicolet 4094A is a digital storage scope from the 1980s that uses the wacky TI 9900 microprocessor

thats cool as hell; i didnt know dsos were a thing that far back. definitely above my impulse buy threshold tho

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

what if... it was half off?

maybe, thats borderline. they havent had the whole-store 50% sale in a year or two, though. maybe in a week and a half when they do their parking lot sale

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

The Management posted:

Sony made their own CRTs, and they made them better than anyone else.

wasnt mitsu's diamondtron superior to trinitron in that it had no/reduced damper wire lines? iirc that's what apple used in the crt studio displays too

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

qirex posted:

I used trinitrons for years and the shadow mask line was like “huh it’s there” once a month or so when I was really squinting at something. I can see steve getting mad about it but everything else about sony monitors was the best available in the 90s

yeah i had and loved my sony gpd400 19" trinitrons, but i remember being jealous of my friend's diamondtron. no wires and i seem to remember it had a slightly higher resolution or refresh rate, and of course was also a perfect flat geometry so whats not to like

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Binary Badger posted:

Yeah, even Parted Magic has been hawking better Mac booting under their breath and that's deffo booting Linux

USB booting has been around since the PowerMac G4 days.

pretty much for as long as macs have had usb. I’ve booted Mac OS and linux from usb on a g3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

fack you posted:

i had a book called learn c on the macintosh by dave mark [second edition] when i was much younger and I never learned C, but it came with a CD that had a version of metrowerks codewarrior but also a bunch of shovelware that had a bunch of game demos and stuff and I'd like to find this CD again so I can relieve my teens being all by myself on my macintosh performa and then iMac Rev. B. where is it. how do i get it

i remember having a "learn programming" book that came with codewarrior, but since i dont remember the shovelware its prob not the same one :shrug:

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

MrMoo posted:

My instagram is full of this today, it looks like two phones in one case



lol the screens aren’t even close to the same color temperature

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

infernal machines posted:

dos notches as they say

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
more like buenos notches?

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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

TOOT BOOT posted:

timb needs to chill the gently caress out with the iOS updates, it seems like there's one every few days

i prob got it from this very thread, but to your point:

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