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FMguru posted:lol at the five hot minutes when pico projectors were going to be the next must-have cellphone feature I wish my phone was orders of magnitude hotter
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I wish my phone was orders of magnitude hotter and i say batteries last too long
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How else are you going to project the keyboard on the desk?
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Crazy Achmed posted:and i say batteries last too long
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remember for a brief moment when 3d phones were going to be a thing
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Wild EEPROM posted:remember for a brief moment when 3d phones were going to be a thing it would sure make them much easier to pick up 
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taqueso posted:How else are you going to project the keyboard on the desk? There was a PM at the place I worked 2 jobs ago who was one of ~those guys~ who used a projected keyboard for like a hot minute. (Also a big fan of funkos.) (Also played Hearthstone in a highly visible way on his work machine.)
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shoeberto posted:There was a PM at the place I worked 2 jobs ago who was one of ~those guys~ who used a projected keyboard for like a hot minute. (Also a big fan of funkos.) (Also played Hearthstone in a highly visible way on his work machine.) I have witnessed someone using one of those unironically in the last calendar year. It was a sharper image one too lol
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Hed posted:lol Iomega also started marketing a CD-R / -RW drive Called the “Zip 650” since they were getting their rear end handed to them by the late 90s by cheaper and ubiquitous optical drives. I'm not sure if the model I got had "zip" in the name but maybe. It was cool when computer stuff was just constantly improving.
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mystes posted:It was cool when computer stuff was just constantly improving. i get what you're saying but it's also cool that modern computers are reliable, quiet, cool, and fast. those incremental improvements are only nostalgic to us because we remembered that it was dogshit before them.
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Jonny 290 posted:i get what you're saying but it's also cool that modern computers are reliable, quiet, cool, and fast. Source your quotes please
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i am constantly impressed when an application opens instantly. things can keep iterating quietly now, so long as storage keeps getting dummy fast like it has
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Volmarias posted:Source your quotes please --me, talking about my loving fast rear end computer that never crashes? idk friend even the 2018 dell laptop i just got for $50 for music stuff is pretty nice
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Jonny 290 posted:--me, talking about my loving fast rear end computer that never crashes? idk friend haha, i do appreciate you setting yourself up for someone quoting when your were mad as hell about it bluescreening reliably but, yeah, honestly feels good that this expensive stuff isn't effectively disposable anymore
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my first cd burner was a plextor with the caddy thing, i thought it was cool
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just remembered that i got half-life 2 as the collector's edition which included a limited edition t-shirt (xl men's only) but look at that looooong box
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Yoooo Crazy flashback nostalgia trip. I used those jewel cases (I found in a box at school near trash) for my cheap PC games bought from staples that didn’t come in a box - just a hard cardboard thin disc case. I never knew the machine the cases were for but I for sure remember that jewel case with the hinge that was offset and bent all my manuals. And the spring metal tab on the back. What were these actually used for? Ritz On Toppa Ritz fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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i had one, it was just a cd drive, but instead of a slot (laptop style) or a retractable holder (desktop style) it accepted that cartridge with the cd inside. why? no fuckin idea
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you stuck the disc in the caddy and the drive only accepted the caddy... no tray mechanism or feed mechanism, just insert/eject.
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The Puppet Master posted:just remembered that i got half-life 2 as the collector's edition which included a limited edition t-shirt (xl men's only) sorta miss buying games that had manuals and stuff in the box. still have the manuals to e.g. return to zork and homeworld, as well as a bunch of n64 games, but had long since thrown out their boxes
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Jonny 290 posted:--me, talking about my loving fast rear end computer that never crashes? idk friend it’s wild that basically any i5-4xxx chip or above with a grip of ram and an SSD is still very usable in tyool 2022. it’s not a gaming pc, but as a web surfing/office device it’s practically good as new the biggest problem with laptops of that age is the garbage screens, not the horsepower.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:haha, i do appreciate you setting yourself up for someone quoting when your were mad as hell about it bluescreening reliably oh wow loving owned! guess ill go jump off a cliff. No that was a hosed up video driver i fixed it, it works fine now. dell's the problem not computers
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The Puppet Master posted:just remembered that i got half-life 2 as the collector's edition which included a limited edition t-shirt (xl men's only) when the 360 was coming out and mountain dew was doing a promo where you could win one before the official release, i wound up winning one and it came with a swag box, which included a bunch of xl t-shirts that wound up ultimately being cut into pieces for rags because they were more like a tent than a shirt, and there was no way i was going to be a walking mountain dew advertisement i do still have the original japanese metal gear solid collectors edition nearly mint in the box, including the t-shirt still folded up in plastic
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:haha, i do appreciate you setting yourself up for someone quoting when your were mad as hell about it bluescreening reliably do not ryzenshame, lest you imply that you are not, in fact jizzen for ryzen.
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The Puppet Master posted:just remembered that i got half-life 2 as the collector's edition which included a limited edition t-shirt (xl men's only) if im not mistaken the tshirt was a piece of poo poo. black shirt with the grey HL2 logo on the chest only.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:it’s wild that basically any i5-4xxx chip or above with a grip of ram and an SSD is still very usable in tyool 2022. I bought a $90 Dell optiplex with an i5 4590 as a living room general purpose computer. Still using a spinning disk, but with 8gig of ram, the only thing that makes it feel like an old computer is doing video editing. Starting to feel like things have been sitting at 4 cores and 3.some ghz for a while now.
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clock speeds aren't getting much faster, but processors are getting more efficient per cycle and 4 cores really is not that many any more. my processor has 12 cores, 24 threads
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my processor has as many cores as saint timb dictates it shall have, and if the number of threads exceeds said cores then it is a miracle, a grace performed only by stebe our lord
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Sagebrush posted:clock speeds aren't getting much faster, but processors are getting more efficient per cycle and 4 cores really is not that many any more. my processor has 12 cores, 24 threads But 4 cores is still the basic option for most any laptop or office machine the average person would buy. And it has been a while since any one has invented a new killer app that requires some major hardware upgrade. Even Facebook's dumb VR plans are being sold on souped up smartphone hardware.
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but how well does it run crysis???
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Funny tech poo poo I just remembered - kid in high school had his parents pre-order a p4 system. Then the benchmarks came out.
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The_Franz posted:when the 360 was coming out and mountain dew was doing a promo where you could win one before the official release, i wound up winning one and it came with a swag box, which included a bunch of xl t-shirts that wound up ultimately being cut into pieces for rags because they were more like a tent than a shirt, and there was no way i was going to be a walking mountain dew advertisement you don’t have pms so I’ll ask here. for real I will buy this from you. I’m a huge metal gear geek and I had the shirt when I was younger but I wore it too much and it got ruined. I have hayter’s autograph on my original copy of the game I got at toys r us
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that time that apple forced a U2 album onto everyone’s iPhone and it backfired so badly that they had to provide a utility to delete the songs
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:that time that apple forced a U2 album onto everyone’s iPhone and it backfired so badly that they had to provide a utility to delete the songs this was some real boomer poo poo
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Wish there was an app that would delete U2 irl
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Imagine being so into a band that you cannot fathom that like 2 billion other people might not love them as much as you do. Also that band is U2
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that u2 ipod was fully sick for the time, though. it rocked the same color scheme i used for a cobbled-together pc tower and a cheap cd player half a decade prior but only the ipod came with u2's signatures
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Imagine being so into a band that you cannot fathom that like 2 billion other people might not love them as much as you do. timb is a simple man. he loves u2 and oprah and optimizing logistics. 
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