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MononcQc
May 29, 2007

the iPhone ran for years without copy paste as a functionality and users kept saying it didn’t matter that much

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MononcQc
May 29, 2007

opera mobile proxied traffic and compressed it into tiles that rendered faster

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

my posting career started on some forum for a Quebec music band where I wanted my post count to go up up up and I made all my mistakes there before someone drunk paid me an SA account

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

I just remembered albinoblacksheep forums

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

my ti80 story is I had a friend who memorized a quick program that faked a calculator but gave wrong results by a small fraction. it respected things that would mess an eye check like multiplying numbers ending in 5 end in 5 or 0, even vs odd stuff, etc.

If during a class you were not paying attention, he’d swap your calculator with one he put the program in, and then gently caress up all your calculations

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

The child in me likes the idea of a CD-ROM encyclopedia a lot more than wikipedia, just for the form factor and the "you gotta sit down and browse" sort of approach rather than searching and getting randos to pull in newspapers blurbs to get views on stuff.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

does anyone still use carpet sweepers that are like a non-vacuum manual vacuum cleaner

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

mystes posted:

No why would anyone want to use a simple low tech solution when they can buy more gadgets?

the one my parents had in the 90s was just a loving sad affair that worked less effectively than a broom on a non-carpeted floor and also worse than a vacuum on a carpet. I don't know if they got better since then though.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

echinopsis posted:

he’s actually an epubifile it’s a subtle difference

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

I liked coded phones, they never needed batteries or a charge and could work for 30 years

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

I just remembered the Yo app getting funding

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

(american) ding dong ditch — simple and evocative, but shallow and childish

(scottish) chappy — colorful, silly. what does it even mean?

(english) knicky knocky nine doors — bizarre, incomprehensible. feels vaguely racist

(quebec) sonne-décrisse [ring-fuckoff] — straightforward and uses charming local swear words in a load-bearing manner.

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MononcQc
May 29, 2007

I used LibreOffice to edit my first book with the editor (who used Word mainly for editing comments and history tracking, and used Word templates to directly translate poo poo to the final layout for semantic text types) 12-13 years ago, and I still use it to send and edit some documents with my tax guy.

Despite being ugly as poo poo and somewhat hot garbage, the loving thing still seems to adequately deal with all basic usages of word and excel in a mostly compatible manner.

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