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Beamed posted:just remembered eric s raymond. what a fuckface.
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i hate him so much
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i cant believe my posts are being rate-limited here in 2020
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faxes are great because I can draw a picture of a butt and fax it to my friend dave at work and then call him and tell him I sent him a fax and he has to go to the fax machine and pick up the picture of the butt that's been sitting there for an hour where everyone can see it and it's got "HEY DAVE CHECK OUT THIS rear end" written on it
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vrml was cool and webgl or whatever really doesn't cover the same bases. x3d seems to be dead.
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love too set a blaster
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trying to figure out whether i should use XMODEM or Kermit to transfer some files over my remote forest towns crappy phone lines.
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SD vs MMC
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:You forgot MemoryStick MagicGate! memory sticks had the best form factor of any of the flash memory formats. Just the right size for normal human hands, had a little clicky thing to let you know it was plugged in, very good all around too bad about literally every other aspect of them.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:this and disc juggler and generally living in a time when you had to know which software to use for what burning task because each of them did something different and none did all of it until CDBurnerXP was released. dont forget Daemon Tools
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Midjack posted:that sounds like it would suck. xD
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it still exists: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
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yeah it was just a nice place to go if you wanted a quick summary of the current political situation in Albania or if you needed to know roughly how much oil Latvia consumed or whatever.
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Tankakern posted:spotify is missing lots of stuff yeah. honestly if you're a fan of oddball music and demand streaming, youtube is the place to go.
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man are shoutcast streams still a thing?
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remember when the iphone first came out the primary objection was that it was huge?
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Soricidus posted:I’m so glad they’re making matte screens again, even if it spoils the turn on your monitor joke what really? this is great news. Now if apple just brings back the powerbook keyboard I can die happy.
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Sweevo posted:people trying and failing to make that kibibyte/mebibyte/gibibyte poo poo catch on i fuckin hate this poo poo so much if you've ever said 'mebibyte' out loud unironically i hate you
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mebi you should get the gently caress out of here, poindexter
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rotor effortlessly claims the quad
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Progressive JPEG posted:lol christ it still exists can you imagine being the dude hired to port habbo hotel to javascript
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speaking of quark has anyone mentioned Kai's Power Tools or whatever it was?
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![]() oof, that's that mid-nineties UI i was lookin for
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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
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DID SOMEONE SAY NNTP?!?!
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UUCP news distribution will be important in the future when Newt Gingrich's Brain In A Jar rules the Holy American Empire with an iron fist
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lmao
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iirc its just generated from the filesystem and it turns out serving up static content from the filesystem is really fast.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:it took Apple way too long to make it a part of iOS its been there since the 5, at least. Not the 5S, not the SE, just the regular 5.
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so my old ridiculous mouse died, then the mx master i bought to replace it died, then i decided I'd replace that with a wireless version of my old ridiculous mouse.
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Wild EEPROM posted:pinky support thats why its the most comfortable mouse i've ever used. Everything else is just whatever, normal mouse stuff.
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Achmed Jones posted:join me as a trackball haver rotor i've got an elecom and it's good, i swap between em every now & then to keep the RSI at bay
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no massive pinky rest, gonna have to pass
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Kitfox88 posted:wait there are still modern trackballs that are half decent? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0735584RM/
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Ritz On Toppa Ritz posted:I knew someone in college that swore that was the best mouse. its not a thumb trackball, your thumb sits at the scroll wheel there, your index & middle finger on the ball and your other two on the other buttons
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speaking of funy old tech poo poo, i still maintain the logitech trackman marble fx is the best trackball formfactor
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Jabor posted:i gotta say, i feel like a trackball is one of those things where being wireless doesn't really add anything except for annoyance its good, actually, because i can plug in the dongle into the KVM and put the trackball in a drawer while i'm not using it
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i just dont find computers these days to be funy
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Plank Walker posted:screens should be rollable like scrolls
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2025 17:23 |
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i wonder if there's a dealership called the Lexus Nexus
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