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carry on then posted:safari for windows, which included porting most of cocoa including the text rendering engine from os x to windows i guess nobody used it but i'm still disappointed they dropped it
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SO DEMANDING posted:business card CDs showstoppers events have good food
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Jul 16, 2021 02:06
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:it's what happens when your turn your monitor off it would be cool to grow some bad-assed horns
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Jul 21, 2021 21:57
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why would you want pissed horns?? idgi
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Jul 21, 2021 23:30
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Wild EEPROM posted:the guy who got the blackberry storm tattoo the guy who got the zune tattoos and then didnt he get mad about it
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Jul 24, 2021 02:40
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polyester concept posted:and if the antenna was more concealed, this would fukken own this is ridiculous, i love it
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Aug 9, 2021 03:05
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polyester concept posted:i grew up in northern canada and the only stations we got were strictly local, i imagine in the 70s and 80s you couldn't tune to a dead channel in those countries yeah. thinking about this always reminds me how cincinnati’s wlw transmitted at up to 500kW in the 30s, and was able to compete with national radio networks as a result, with just their single station. caused a lot of interference in toronto.
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Aug 9, 2021 12:38
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Jonny 290 posted:WLW was amazing. they basically just kept saying "haha we're gonna install a bigger transmitter" over and over and FCC was like "as long as it's grounded and you're being safe that's ok sweetie" until every piece of metal in a 20 mile radius would receive their transmissions iirc texas could easily receive their broadcasts even during the day
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Aug 9, 2021 18:37
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:the class a clear channels turn up to like 100kW at night from 50 during the day. yea they were the only station ever licensed to go that high and it was eventually revoked outside of experiments
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Aug 10, 2021 00:25
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Jonny 290 posted:All the time. They actually just installed a voice repeater this year so there's a 50 watt voice fireball repeater that covers like a quarter of the US for 10 minutes at a time. this is cool
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Aug 11, 2021 13:20
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axolotl farmer posted:/msg Xx-W4r3zB0T_420-xX xdcc send #69 ah, memories
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Aug 13, 2021 13:09
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that’s awesome. my favourite drm was always the version of carmen sandiego that came with a copy of the world almanac and made you enter the heading on the top of a random page demanded by the game
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Aug 17, 2021 12:22
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we were able to get more than a couple of channels once digital satellites took off in the 2000s. we lived too far out to get cable unless the cable company said we paid for at least a full mile of cable and installation all on our own i remember being mildly jealous as a kid about nickelodeon
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Aug 29, 2021 02:39
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my road was at least tar, which suuuuuucked in the summer
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Aug 29, 2021 02:55
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:how hard is it these days to broadcast OTA TV yourself? I have to imagine that high end SDR’s have the capability? https://www.hackster.io/news/broadcast-your-favorite-tv-show-24-7-with-a-raspberry-pi-4ec9c7f8fe8e
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Aug 29, 2021 03:00
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Jonny 290 posted:honestly LTE only wouldn't kill me for a couple months a year. Keep a NAS up there loaded the gently caress up with a ton of movies and shows, convince my boss that video-off Zooms are more ecologically friendly, spend a lot of time on the ham rigs chatting with locals. Could be a cool decompression summer routine. you might be able to score an unlimited connection. i used to abuse the gently caress out of my work VZW account, pulling down like 500 gigs a month and this was almost ten years ago also wonder if it's close enough to somewhere to set up a point-to-point
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i managed to find some unlimited dial up isp as a kid that my mom had to pay with a checking account and i’d need to manually type in connection strings every time i logged on iirc it was called “your voice village”
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if i could get one of those 1080 HD CRT tvs for watching videos on i probably would, would be great out in the shop
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Oct 14, 2021 15:54
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The_Franz posted:i don't think any consumer crts actually had the dot pitch to fully resolve a 1080 signal. those "super fine pitch" sony models from the mid-00s came the closest with ~1400 horizontal lines, but that's it specifically the last gen were widescreen 1080i, which is what i meant. i haven’t forgotten all the downsides, i just think they were still good at watching video on and playing some games. i enjoyed them. here at least while you have to dispose of it yourself, it’s free to drop off at the ewaste recyclers.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:03
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eschaton posted:check your local Craigslist for “Trinitron” nope i check periodically and assholes want like $200 for people to have the privilege of coming and getting them (plus here as ive said recycling them is free)
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Oct 15, 2021 12:48
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Jonny 290 posted:and they're some of the hardest things to repair too. a VCR or cassette deck may need a belt kit. stereo might need an electrolytic cap job. CRT? enjoy seeing your life flash before your eyes as you do a high voltage filter cap replacement and attempt to replace a whining flyback transformer. pretty much same
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Oct 15, 2021 14:00
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The_Franz posted:come to think of it, when my friend's uncle died last year, he had one of those huge 40" XBR tubes as well as a CRT rear projection and they had to pay someone to haul them away because nobody would take them for free i have one of those edtvs. honestly it’s surprisingly not bad for watching anything 720p and below, playing ps4 on, etc. also have the commodore hooked up to it
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Oct 15, 2021 16:44
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Volmarias posted:I'm reading this as "I once accidentally hurt a CRT TV set and all of the other televisions in the back hissed at me" and I much prefer this version. 🎵i. hurt my set…today🎶
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Oct 15, 2021 17:05
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yes shockingly people younger than boomers like transphobic and homophobic "jokes" and libertarian bullshit. see: tech, anyone who likes dave chappelles recent special
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Oct 17, 2021 02:37
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eschaton posted:does it have a quadrophonic 8-track player with a copy of Quadrophenia permanently inserted? in some parallel reality the internet is much worse and we all carry little bags of high res audio cartridges and i want to live there
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Oct 18, 2021 00:33
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what’s wrong with the left channel, is it just softer for unknown reasons?
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Oct 19, 2021 02:42
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speaking of repair chat every few months here they run a repair café (i think this is a trend) where nerds go to a room and sit behind tables and the public comes in with busted poo poo to get fixed at low/no cost, depending
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yeah they focus on like, not ipads and stuff for obvious reasons but they also offer advice for those 
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May 1, 2023 14:51
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it’s a movement! sort of. y’all should try starting one near you. https://www.repaircafe.org/en/
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Volmarias posted:The "bwampf" that happened when you hit the degauss button on the monitor, despite not knowing what it actually DID beyond a delightful noise and image nothing has ever been as satisfying
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May 5, 2023 02:07
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lord funk posted:the engineering students on my campus do this and it rules. they just set up a tent in the common area and all the old people in the neighborhoods surrounding it haul in bigass fans and rice cookers and it's a big 'ol party boss
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May 5, 2023 04:16
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Beeftweeter posted:it was originally the complete jewish bible webring oh man webrings
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May 10, 2023 01:27
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rotor posted:i have a webring-like project on the backburner, maybe someday it will see the light of day just make an index and go straight gopher
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when i was in college our bio research labs all still had zip drives attached even though they’d already stopped being used lol. i think that’s the only time i ever saw them in the wilds
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May 11, 2023 14:05
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i bought my first flash drive to use as storage for sem pics for my sem class
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May 11, 2023 14:57
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:multipart zip archives and lots of disks are what you want ah memories of irc warez
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May 11, 2023 15:29
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Beeftweeter posted:lol remember when cd writes would fail if you breathed around the drive speaking of burning discs i loving loved lightscribe. everyone i gave one of the discs to thought it was like insanely awesome lol
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May 11, 2023 19:27
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echinopsis posted:no need to sign your posts around here hey aren’t u the usb shafts guy
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one of the carmen sandiego games came with a copy of the world almanac and the copy protection was you had to enter the page headings from a random page it picked in order to play the game
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