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i think it means ppl that derive joy from scanning pdfs of dead, weird, unloved books and putting them out there for free because what, is karen johanssen of minnetonka going to sue you from 10 years beyond the grave because you put her cookbook up there
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Jonny 290 posted:i think it means ppl that derive joy from scanning pdfs of dead, weird, unloved books and putting them out there for free because what, is karen johanssen of minnetonka going to sue you from 10 years beyond the grave because you put her cookbook up there u can exorcise her with one grain of cayenne powder tho
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from what i understand, theres an app made by amazon that u can scan books and it'll tell you the approximate profit you'd make selling it on amazon so in the store, you can scan a book upc and if its enough profit you can just hit like "yes" or whatever right there in the app, and then u go and buy all the books u said yes to, box them up and send them off to amazon for the 'fulfilled by amazon' nonsense, and then sit back and watch the money roll in (from what ive heard the money will not roll in unless u basically treat it as a full time job)
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Jul 27, 2019 02:00
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you'll see people using their phone cameras for this but the serious people often have straight up legit laser barcode scanners hooked to their phones
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Jul 27, 2019 02:02
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:from what i understand, theres an app made by amazon that u can scan books and it'll tell you the approximate profit you'd make selling it on amazon lmao. oh poo poo. i do not do that, i fully misunderstood wtf you were talking about.
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Jul 27, 2019 02:09
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I like to imagine it meant people would pick up the books, think really hard, and explode a mans head nearby
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Jul 27, 2019 02:12
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infernal machines posted:lmao. oh poo poo. i do not do that, i fully misunderstood wtf you were talking about. good now i feel better i called them weirdos. for a quick way to see this in action, go to your local goodwill outlet, which i can best describe as "thrifting anarchy" wear gloves.
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Vomik posted:I like to imagine it meant people would pick up the books, think really hard, and explode a mans head nearby ae lmao
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:good now i feel better i called them weirdos. i think maybe we don't have this in canada, at least i've never seen it at salvation army, value village, or goodwill (goodwill shut down a while back up here) e: i am definitely a weirdo though, if only for spending up to an hour looking over all the shelves for unique old books for my collection
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Jul 27, 2019 02:18
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:you'll see people using their phone cameras for this but the serious people often have straight up legit laser barcode scanners hooked to their phones rude af, with sharp elbows
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Jul 27, 2019 02:59
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alexandriao posted:She probably could have sold them for a couple of thou on ebay. I wish I could resell old junk like that, but it would just make me feel dirty inside. they didnt have ram or disks and iirc they took weird sun-only versions of both
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FMguru posted:i see them all the time at library used book sales (speaking of garbage hoarding). specialized hand-held barcode scanners, hooked up to cellphones and an earpiece beeping to tell if the book they just scanned is worth anything Help your local library by sticking a credibly aged barcode to the spine of that 1997 edition of Java for dummies.
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:you'll see people using their phone cameras for this but the serious people often have straight up legit laser barcode scanners hooked to their phones all the really serious people have the scanners with WinCE devices in them because somehow the best software for this stuff is still based on that it must be a real gamble to play the book value game because i have stuff saved in my amazon cart that fluctuates between 50% of its cost from just yesterday like it were a fuckin bitcoin
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Jul 27, 2019 21:11
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oval office AND PASTE posted:
everything on amazon does this now, thanks to the A L G O R I T H M
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:from what i understand, theres an app made by amazon that u can scan books and it'll tell you the approximate profit you'd make selling it on amazon the books
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the shop near me separates out any books that look old onto a separate shelf. and people must have a sixth sense as to what is actually valuable because it will sell instantly and everything else will stay there for months. if something is there two days in a row then you know its worthless and if its gone then it was valuable and you missed out. i did once get a six volume account of WW2 by churchill for £10 which i sold on ebay for £150. god knows who actually wants to read it though as flicking through it it was just hundreds of pages of "...and then the minister handed me a note informing me that a memo would be released announcing a meeting to decide the agenda for the panel to be set up to determine the membership of the committee that would discuss the report produced at the hearing into...". i don't think the war even started until volume 4.
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Sweevo posted:i did once get a six volume account of WW2 by churchill for £10 which i sold on ebay for £150. god knows who actually wants to read it though as flicking through it it was just hundreds of pages of "...and then the minister handed me a note informing me that a memo would be released announcing a meeting to decide the agenda for the panel to be set up to determine the membership of the committee that would discuss the report produced at the hearing into...". i don't think the war even started until volume 4. one used bookstore near me wasnt too careful about checking incoming stock so i managed to score a copy of the dune encyclopedia for $5 (which i still have) and neil gaimans first book (ghastly beyond belief) for $2 (which i flipped on ebay for $140)
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Jul 29, 2019 14:48
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when I moved out of my "20s house" I donated/gave away/recycled about 30 odd computers. suns, sgis, decs, pcs, it was shameful. somehow my love life was way more active then so who knows
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Jul 30, 2019 01:47
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I got an HP RPN calculator in the thrift store a while back
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Jul 30, 2019 02:42
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no seriously what did people use sparcstations for like what was a sparcstation better at doing than other machines
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Jul 30, 2019 07:00
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pretty much any kind of unix development
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back in the day you ran SunOS 4 on a SPARCstation and it was basically a very fast BSD machine, but better lots of dot com boom companies put workstations on web developers’ desks because they were started by people who wanted the computers they shared in clusters for themselves, never mind that a Macintosh or PC was more representative of the actual users of the sites they worked on also a lot of engineering applications started and were primarily used on workstations, this only really changed with the introduction of Windows NT and Microsoft effectively paying all of those companies to port their applications (even if they didn’t directly pay, they often provided free licenses for tools, free tech support, even free hardware from third party partners, whatever it took to ensure that no other platform had an availability advantage) like this is why the most common HP-HIL hardware after keyboards and mice are the ID boxes: they’re basically HP-vended security dongles that the authors of these kilodollars-per-seat apps could bundle (and post-HIL they all used FLEXlm)
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Silver Alicorn posted:I got an HP RPN calculator in the thrift store a while back  Good find. yard salad posted:everything on amazon does this now, thanks to the A L G O R I T H M Gonna need an e-bay price sniping like tool for amazon now.
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a little bit ago I set up a SPARCstation 2 with SunOS 4.1.4 (“Solaris 1.1.2”) and Sun Workshop so I could see about writing some code on it want to eventually make a Mastodon thing for SunView or NeWS
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found a 486 motherboard for $4 today
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oval office AND PASTE posted:found a 486 motherboard for $4 today $4 too much
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Jul 31, 2019 00:29
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I used to work at a webhost and they would do a monthly hardware giveaway for employees to avoid paying for waste disposal. All these rubes lining up for 8 yo hardware that has the memory and power supplies stripped out lol
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Jul 31, 2019 02:44
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oval office AND PASTE posted:found a 486 motherboard for $4 today nice!
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Salt Fish posted:I used to work at a webhost and they would do a monthly hardware giveaway for employees to avoid paying for waste disposal. All these rubes lining up for 8 yo hardware that has the memory and power supplies stripped out lol i love when clients ask me how much some out of warranty hardware is worth and i tell them how much we'd charge them to wipe and dispose of it.
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