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Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

axolotl farmer posted:

setting up EAC with LAME and getting ID3 tags from Freedb :fyadride:
...is there a better way to rip now? I still do this

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Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

echinopsis posted:

sometimes blue ppl go green for a few moments and you can’t sent them pictures and makes me want to throw my phone in the toilet
you can send MMS if you turn off wi-fi

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

rotor posted:

my favorite thing on the internet right now is when i go to a site and something goes wrong with the css loading and everything is just rendered as default html and it feels like 1996 again
Web browsing always feels like 1996, the client-side scripts either don't load at all or they force artificial delays on you to negotiate content inserts

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

i would take a plasma from 2006 over an lcd from 2020 and i'm not even joking (assuming both were brand new).
:yossame:

too bad nobody bought them because 90% of tv purchasing decisions happen on the store floor and lcds with cranked up brightness and saturation had the advantage under fluorescent lighting

at least oled is better about burn-in now, used plasmas are a sorry sight

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

somebody mentioned gardening in a conversation and I suddenly remembered csszengarden.com

loving 2003. some of the older ones (if you can't be arsed to browse them all go to the front page on wayback machine and enjoy trends changing over the years) look totally like modern landing pages, even if they're not ~responsive~
but even the newest submissions load in miliseconds

Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 12:54 on May 18, 2020

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

3D Megadoodoo posted:

IF is binary tho
Yeah fuzzy logic is just more statements. Having this finally explained to me felt like being pranked

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

I remember some lovely adventure game CD that had some demo tracks of the voice actors' band on it :allears: learned about it in another game that had the feature of automatically playing your audio CDs as background music

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

2012 Ivy Bridge is still good enough for games, all I had to upgrade to stay current was the gfx card and adding an M.2 drive bay in the second PCI-E slot. Gonna get a few more years out of it for sure

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/COCX-38295

enjoy your favorite NES themes in perfect Blu-spec quality :shepspends:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

netbooks were based on intel atom lmao
I remember buying into that promise

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

i can't believe nvidia even gives a poo poo. they made a single portable device 6 years ago and never released another.

my man have you heard of the nintendo switch

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

President Beep posted:

oddly enough I’ve heard it works well with periscope

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

lol alexa's parsing of speech is skill developers having to implement a giant list of every possible permutation of a sentence

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

you can't turn off ye light

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

rockbox owns and you can completely change the interface from clock+song name to MAXIMUM INFORMATION I NEED THE SAMPLE RATE AND BIT DEPTH ALWAYS VISIBLE IN 6PX FONT

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Dino Run championships :hai:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Progressive JPEG posted:

folksy banjo(?) music in tech ads
ukulele

and there are now multiple startups that generate it with ML

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

carry on then posted:

safari for windows, which included porting most of cocoa including the text rendering engine from os x to windows
god those fonts felt like a window to a better world. then you close the browser and it's back to ClearType :sigh: I ended up installing some janky utility that tried to emulate OSX's font antialiasing systemwide, it was so unreliable you could have a single context menu with different options displayed in different ways

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

yeah ideally you want to keep the source volume at max and change it on the speaker so it's not mostly noise floor either

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

shoeberto posted:

I dunno, the whole Chromebook-in-schools thing makes it so a lot of kids have no idea how files (or file systems) work at all, they can still probably get away with "I spent all night on it but now I can't find it on my Drive!"

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Martytoof posted:

It’s like Oregon Trail except instead of dying of dysentery you die of boredom

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

The only real world use the Apple Vision Pro ever got was people renting them out to make tiktoks where they go out in public and navigate pretend menus with Oculus Quest gestures

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

rotor posted:

mmmmm

just generally i feel like electronics used to smell better
extreme 2020s posting

:smith:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

You can get PCI-E cards with more ports so a card with a wider PCI bus is preferable to one with more built-in ports for maximum modularity

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

as usual buying gear and using gear are separate pastimes

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Neito posted:

dumbest thing i ever installed was from the disk on the back of a computer book in the library: tiny elvis, an application that would occationally animate the icon and say something like "ohhhh, look at that desktop, that thing is huge".

loving cackling

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Yes I'm sure the writers of EN 60900 were thinking of Windows themes.

:yeah:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I remember when us edgy teens started gostse'ing each other one friend going "you know there are other pages behind it right?" And us all going "sorry you actually stayed there looking for more pictures?"
why you say goodbye.jpg
I say hello

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

If you hide desktop icons it’s just another location on your drive :smug:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Neito posted:

last.fm used to be called audioscrobler iirc.

"Audioscrobbler began as a computer science project by Richard Jones while he was attending the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science in the United Kingdom.[5] The term scrobbling is defined as the process of finding, processing, and distributing information related to people, music, and other data."

so some term some nerd-rear end nerd made up, or some dumbass british slang.

port out, scrobboard home

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

If the liturgical calendar did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

aardwolf posted:

google's motto used to be "don't be evil"

quote:

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company…
Really it’s remarkable that “it’s better if we’re not just focusing on juicing next quarter’s results” lasted in the prospectus for as long as it did. Human paperclip maximizers must have been seeing red

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

root of all eval posted:

A friend in Sweden sent me a 3DS Max R3 iso over ICQ since I was on dialup and it allowed resumes
no dad, that’s not how you open pdf

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Jonny 290 posted:

like command line scp?

no sale

i love a good dual pane file transfer program

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Volmarias posted:

gently caress everything, we're doing five screens

I see we share the same recruiters

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

adhd means drinking 9loko to be regular tired

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

ime the SEA energy drinks don’t really have higher caffeine content, they’re just way more sugary
I really enjoyed the Vietnamese STING when they had it at the import store but it was like slamming raw syrup. 3.9x the sugar content of Rockstar apparently. similar deal with krating daeng (the austrian redbull has 50% more caffeine) or carabao

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

I was drinking it for a bit before learning it was tied to an influencer :saddumb:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

winners press Ctrl+W

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Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

There was Win+X for the Single Useful Menu, idk if that still works. But I do use the Windows key all the time on MacOS, it would be unusable without the Windows key

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