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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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queueqat

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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i still have an isa hardware clock somewhere in box still that i found in a junk bin a few years after

https://www.uxd.com/y2kbdy.html

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Jabor posted:

you pay a yearly fee to post???

lowtax isnt going to take it away for free!

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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unless its for the front page

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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fart simpson posted:

i paid extra money for one of these drives but never bought a pack of discs for it

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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piracy itself became so onerous that it made streaming convenient for certain things

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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cbs is making the best star treks a streaming only show can buy and nbc is selling quality ad space for nbc shows for their nbc shows

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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i hope the mlb org consumes all sports since they at least stream well and theyre all using the platform anyways

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Soricidus posted:

Picard is just on amazon prime everywhere else

so that would make it about midrange quality wise in the prime shows pool maybe?

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Michaeldim posted:

Dual Sided Widescreen and Fullscreen (lol) DVDs with microscopic lettering on the spindle as the label

yeah i have the blade runner dvd too

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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i remembered earlier that jeff bezos called his mistress his "alive girl" and the implications that brings for his past paramours

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Carthag Tuek posted:

seriously we need more details

it started off as an enquirer article, which sounds sleazy and maybe fake, then jeffy b pushed back and claimed there was some extortion going on. he said he was investigating them for being a possible political leak because of trump the enq owner being buddies which adds some legitimacy to his alive girl sexts

https://www.vox.com/2019/2/15/18223914/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-nude-pictures-leaker

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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the reremaster on steam with full 3d and free motion is nice too, sticks to the old puzzles, and has a little epilogue that ties into later games as an easter egg

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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myst, and the stoneship age in particular, were basically background music to my computer usage in the 90s and nicely relaxing

that reminded me of a funny tech thing: i didnt realize id gotten into a very early phase of testing for uru (myst online) because they had sent the acceptance email in-character and it looked like academic spam. it probably was super clever, arg style too, and fun for fans really tied into the development but it missed me entirely because i was too busy to follow them at the time

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

or you can just lean into it like pornbub? I don’t think they’re hurting

jon ronson did a thing for audible called the butterfly effect that goes into that and its basically they did a youtube but also cornered distribution by buying the smaller streaming sites and ignored copyright claims until the porn industry caved enough to have to need to partner with them, then started making their own stuff to muscle them out further

facebook is sort of doing the same with social platforms now

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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3D Megadoodoo posted:

yeah there will never be another fishmech

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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:drat:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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echinopsis posted:

if I knew how, i'd love to move the frames in the last half so her head becomes stationary. she bobs up and down just a little bit too much IN MY GOD drat OPINION

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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machine learns rice is hot and make elements not so hot e-z p-z

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Carthag Tuek posted:

p'zone phone

/pizza

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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eat pepperoni, m'lord

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Jonny 290 posted:

then brave took that model to adblock the rest of the industry and sell premium ad space in those empty slots lmao

still pretty gucking wild that that is even a thing. like 'what if adblock sold you to the highest bidder but as a browser' is a hell of a pitch and its working lol

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Cybernetic Vermin posted:

computer lifetimes are a lot longer in 2020 than they were back in 2000 though. 3 years is not old even in a lot of professional contexts.

yeah, if my old cpu didnt fry in may id still be using my i5 2500k, a 9 year old chip, to play 2020 games with only modest slider changes. the longevity of any decent cpu is so much better now

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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echinopsis posted:

this looks like it delivers hand sanitiser

if the pump cost $400 $700 usd then yeah lol

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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that much to smush a whoopee cushion of juice

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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mystes posted:

This would be more appealing if apple didn't go out of their way to prevent you from running real software. As dumb as chromebooks are, at least they let you run normal linux in a vm, apparently with decent integration into the desktop and everything, now.

or just directly run linux. I have an old chromebook running gallium os and it gets better battery life than chrome os as a browser with a keyboard and mouse

Silver Alicorn posted:

pocket devices with keyboards that can run a Linux are super interesting to me,

same. like for no reason, they just enamor me

SO DEMANDING posted:

extremely same and I HAVE NO gently caress IDEA WHY SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME

its me

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Tankakern posted:

last time i tried gallium os, it sucked big time. didn't even support hidpi. have they fixed that yet? is it still based on xfce?

i'd test fedora before resorting to gallium

it's still xfce with i think alternatives oob now, but if the chromebook has decent ram definitely go elsewhere

support for firmware and other models is way better now, and the hardware is beefier even for cheap models, so there should be better os and hardware options available

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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the securerom or whatever on morrowind required cd access to play and was so bad that cracking a legit copy added at least 5 fps to the game on a good system which was substantial due to the engine culling issue. i think mounting an iso was almost as good but the added hdd access still affected the game

pretty sure the steam version for a time used a nocd cracked exe until someone spotted it and bethesda fixed it properly


lol

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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i remember trying to convince people streaming was the future and theyd rightly ask me 'what can you watch on it?' which was nothing newer than the public domain cutoff

kitten emergency posted:

I had a copy of bleem, I remember playing chrono cross on an ibook

same, same, but on a windows desktop

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Jonny 290 posted:

i sure fucken do

remember the multi io cards that had 2 serial ports, a printer port, ide and floppy all on one?



fucken game changers

we had a ps/1 expert with one of those and it made that box a beast for the time

i pulled the 5.25/3.5 combo drive for an athlon tower build and those old dos games like captain power were unplayable since they were speed limited by the cpu clock lol

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I paid 995 marks for the Voodoo 3 3000 and it was fine for playing Half-Life, MDK 2, The Operative No-One Lives Forever, etc.

glide made hl games and mods run so smoothly. it was one of the few steps down in quality when i switched from a v4 4500 (lol) to a gf2 mx400

oh thats a funny tech i forgot doing; using a pci video card for secondary monitors, so a v3 3000 was my secondary even when i had a card that could do two because it handled the display acceleration well enough without eating into game video memory

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Carthag Tuek posted:

I used to sign up for all the social sites as soon as they opened

6degrees
myspace
friendster
orkut
etc

stopped sometime before Twitter came around tho

whoa, big same but it was instagram for me. i would have been even earlier for twitter but i was already waning then

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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jre posted:

:shepicide: slashdot

lol fark, but i read sa articles then

lots of irc for years before

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Silver Alicorn posted:

honestly? don't remember how I found SA. there was just photoshop fridays and weekend web in my browser one day. before that I was reading the brunching shuttlecocks

I think it was an friend on icq sharing the icq pranks with me

poo poo I wish I still remembered my icq number, it wasn't super low but it was slightly shorter

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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I think wow used it for client updates which, after many years of suffering everquest's patch day rush, was the smartest patcher idea I'd seen

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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greg the peanut posted:

Was realplayer funny or sad? or both?!?

funny when you thought about it sad when you used it

Jonny 290 posted:

realplayer would have been fine if we had any sort of decent internet at all in the us

its true, it certainly would have faired better with stable connections or modestly consistent speeds. I'm trying to imagine youtube trying to be a thing at the time realplayer was around and i think we'd be cracking jokes about buffering red circles and green blotchy red and white play buttons

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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echinopsis posted:

aria giovanni

I once knew a dude called giovanni. funny name. always said it spicy meatball style

apparently dr. giovanni now and happily doing research. very cool

astalavista was a rare breed then. a working search engine with useful results

so also rare now

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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SO DEMANDING posted:

lmao you're confusing altavista (search engine) and astalavista (:filez:)

altavista loving owned though, search engines are all trash now

yeah, thats it :ninja:

I recall trying to :filez: before someone pointed me to astalavista was a tedious gamble. it started to decline but for a few years it felt like it was the place to go

at the time i did use altavista. it was my go to search engine until someone showed me google and i slowly forgot how to write db-esque search queries

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Wild EEPROM posted:

googles search results are so bad that instead of making you wade through 200 bad results they put the bad result as an answer right up front.

also bad is how searching for how to do something will just bring up a hundred pages of youtube.

I saw a good example of this recently

i was looking to see if lockpickinglawyer had picked a lock i have and google suggested a set of questions, one being 'who is the lockpickinglawyer?'

the excerpt was from a wikipedia page for a different lock picker with a pile of legal and personal woes. the only connection was they both picked locks

google has figured out how to auto-defame people and hope you'll fact-check them

oh, and 'who is lockpickinglawyer' results in useful results and a wikia full of sport lock pickers with useful information, so google is tripping on "the" and how that affects the proper noun

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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that was one of them, maybe the biggest one? the trick i found was to ctrl-alt-del right as it connected and stop the process and enjoy my 6.3 kb/sec connection and some tfc

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