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Mar 26, 2020 12:05
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:hummingbird eXceed haha poo poo we used to use that for uhhh poo poo I can't even remember now,running some ancient C GUIs I think
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3D Megadoodoo posted:the only ethical porn is Rakelin panokoulu (Rakel's fuckschool) which was a programme on MoonTV starring Rakel and a boyfriend. I think they never aired the assfucking episode. assumed this was a post about anime but then remembered that Finnish is a nonsense language
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Mr.Radar posted:good news, it's back in the form of the pinephone: people with the taskbar in vertical mode should be shunned
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Jabor posted:funny tech poo poo: putting a video game cd in your cd player and hearing the game soundtrack lol I remember putting the grand theft auto CD in the stereo in my mum's car also the banging quake 2 soundtrack
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speaking of which whatever happened to the magic D Wave quantum computer? Was that just a con to scam money out of Google?
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I remember having a creative SB Live! Cd drive and sound card in my first pc (a 486 sx25 from my dad's office) and it coming with that exact pseudo hifi interface and a "Q Sound" positional audio demo with a cowboy shooting at you from behind a cactus Q Sound was pretty funny iirc. Some guy sold it to creative as some kind of super fancy positional algorithm or something when it was just levelling based on putting two mics into a literal human skull where the earholes are and doing a basic positional sample. though tbh that's pretty much what my AV amp does to set its levels just without the skull, though it constantly over cranks the bass edit: I literally cannot find any mention of this at all. I swear I remember reading about this and how it was a "special skull" that they used that they claimed made it better than just positional mics but now I think maybe I imagined it Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Sep 13, 2020 |
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yeah I can't see myself upgrading for a long time from the 2 year old i5 9600 I have. also yes I am that sucker that bought the poo poo Intel cpu just before AMD got good again
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I think the thing that blows my mind a bit is how cheap ssd storage got. I have a 64gb ssd on my desk that I used as an os drive in 2007 and I need to get rid of, and a stack of hdds that got rendered completely obsolete. One has a post it not saying "windows vista" on it lol. I think the last hdd I used I got annoyed with the spin up noise of and just stuck another 1tb ssd in to replace it.
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BLOBby Newmark posted:
god remember people running those things in raid 0 for extra performance?
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Oct 29, 2020 18:47
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I'm short stroking right now
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Oct 29, 2020 20:16
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I think the new nvidia 3d nuclear gamer X founders edition takes something nuts like 4 pci slots up because it's so god drat big I mean I thought my 1070ti was big but this poo poo is insane And then you've got the xbox x which I assume is essentially just a gpu in a box now
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I'm short stroking right now
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that bit in iron man 2 when Tony Stank, a billionaire who has invented AI, has to phone up larry elison to use the oracle cloud for some calcs
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psiox posted:
I'm glad this place is thousands of miles away from me because that would give me a severe drinking problem One guy in our team is a gin collector and knows like every single place that sells negronis in Central London, sucks that this year we won't have our annual "go out for Christmas lunch and stay out drinking negroni for 12 hours" day because of covid. e: I mean more of a problem. At least at home I'm too lazy to back to back more than 2 negronis.
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idk why this is even marked as comedy because it's true
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Nov 17, 2020 23:32
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:idk why the laugh track plays when it does. the parts it plays over are distinctly non-funny British TV comedy was obsessed with laugh tracks for years, it was so bad that when you saw anything without one it sounded super bleak
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loving SACDs, did they ever release more than a handful of those things?
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:thousands huh I never remember seeing more than a few in the back of record stores, then again in the UK the players were insanely expensive so maybe there was less of a market
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Carthag Tuek posted:I used HotLine to download my warez and it could resume downloads so My dad lived in Hong Kong for a while around 2000 ish and would send /bring me random discs from the markets, like I think I remember one being various versions of autocad as I wanted to study engineering (i never used it) I think I also bought a pirate copy of 3ds max from a street vendor in Bulgaria in 2002 neither was directly useful for actual engineering, but messing around with 3ds and a demo of truespace did mean I was a bit ahead of the game when we came to using a real Cad package. It was just unfortunate the one we learned on was incredibly niche (I-DEAS if anyone cares)
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also I just remembered using the trial version of truespace I got on some demo disc to do a 3d model of the desk I built for my technology course at school circa 1999 and the teacher's mind was *blown* the demo version was time limited to like 45 minutes, I got really good at mocking that desk up quickly.
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ultravoices posted:people don't usually pay $700 to get a load across the face Not to you maybe
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I literally bought a pair of cargo trousers like 3 weeks ago. Sometime in the last few years they've passed from 00's legacy to "standard item of clothing" that you can but from "normal" shops like superdry they're v. Useful
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Achmed Jones posted:what's the alcohol joke? ISOpropyl? Jonny 290 posted:its this oh poo poo
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:bleem! I remember seeing a physical copy of this in a store once
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I had a voodoo banshee because I needed a 2d and 3d card, those were the days. I got half life free with it and that was like a third of the price so that was a pretty good deal imho
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PCjr sidecar posted:more like idpispopd amirite actual irl lol
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I posted a lot on the pc gamer UK forums in like 1999, I really hope that poo poo is deleted though they were a pretty chill place actually all things considered edit: i think I was maybe 15 idk.
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I just remembered that I bought a forums account instead of just reading it when it was free specifically to ask a question in shsc about fixing a hard drive that I'd totalled from torrenting in the days before checkpoints or whatever they were. I got through like 4 of those trash 80gb maxtor hdds idk where I heard about SA from. Maybe a link on (shudders) fark to a photoshop phriday?
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Why did torrents destroy hard drives? I never heard of checkpoints before. Jonny 290 posted:basically constant seeks back and forth as blocks got retrieved from a bunch of diff seeders yeah I can't remember what the proper name was but if you stopped a torrent part way through on early clients then later when you restarted it the client would thrash through every chunk to figure out what it needed to get from the rest of the seeders. do that enough on lovely hdds that were constantly getting maxed out and rewritten and it would kill them I think it was maybe Azureus that first fixed this or maybe it was a tracker side thing idk edit: gently caress this was like 16 years ago
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Volmarias posted:Whatever that dialup isp was that gave you internet in exchange for you having banner ads on your desktop from them, which people very quickly learned to work around. god I remember these. There was one that also had some referral/pyramid mechanic built into it as well, but it was so slow I just gave up in the end. swapping though free isp sample discs to min max the free 100 hours and still getting in trouble for running up a phone bill playing team fortress classic
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3D Megadoodoo posted:remember when you had a screen on the lid of your clamshell phone, and it could show the time which I guess was usefull, but it would go dark after like ten seconds of closing the phone so it was actually completely useless for that? nah that owned I had one of these  and it was actually useful having that little screen on the back. Good phone too, it was made of some indestructible plastic and had a rad game called "snowball fight" that I used to play in statistics lectures, causing me to nearly fail engineering statistics.
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:nearly failing a class for the sake of a tiny mobile game meant to kill time? while you were studying statistics, I was studying the... Well the point is I wasn't studying statistics ok It was first year so I was drunk all the time anyway. I mean I did the same thing in the second year too, but after that I got my poo poo together.
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Silver Alicorn posted:ogg bepis comin' in your ears!
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Sata felt like such a massive leap just because of getting rid of those old rear end ribbon cables. i remember buying a 3rd party zalman heatsink.... For the northbridge chip on the mobo because of how loud the lovely fan on it was
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Jonny 290 posted:going from rounded (yes i x-acto-knifed my own flat cables to rounded ones FOR AIRFLOW) ide to sata cables wasn't nearly as jarring as my latest build, which is where i put two one-terabyte disks the size of sticks of gum, that can move 5,000 megabytes per second in to magic slots and hit the power switch and turned it on. I actually kind of didn't believe nvme was real when I first saw it
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Sagebrush posted:i had only seen nvmes in pictures and thought they were like the size of a candy bar. i knew that they used pci so assumed they stuck upright in a pci slot, 4 inches long or something. i in fact couldn't find the nvme slots on my motherboard for a couple of minutes because they were covered with heat sinks and i wasn't expecting them to be so small. same. I should have known really, remember those pics if Samsung ssd that was 90% empty space because the chip is far smaller than the form factor? edit: or was that one of the fake ones with a USB to sata bridge to a USB stick in a 3.5 drive case
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