Leperflesh posted:

if I could click on someone's gang tag and get taken to a random post by some other poster who also uses that gang tag

in a well actually posted:

a pity it didn’t last longer

nudgenudgetilt posted:

i don't want rural, but i don't want urban either.

i want a small town with a healthy restaurant/shopping district near a train with access to whatever the nearest city is.

echinopsis posted:

Wild EEPROM posted:

ps3 and xbox 360 are not retro because they are like 2005 or something and its currently the year 2007 so it doesn’t meet the cutoff

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

it is imo very appropriate comedy that we have already moved bluesky to this thread

rotor posted:

docks are a neat idea imo and i wish those phone/tablet dock things hadnt been so lovely

Leperflesh posted:

Yeah I had to use COPY CON <enter the whole thing line by line with no mistakes not even using the backspace key> to update autoexec bat or control sys or something on one or two DOS machines back in the day because of things like an incomplete DOS install. If the folder with utilities like Edit is missing, you can still use the COPY CON command to direct the console entry to a file. It replaces the file, though, so you get one shot at it.

MononcQc posted:

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

First of May posted:

bragging about having 2 whole gigabytes of hard drive space (across three drives)

outhole surfer posted:

vast has a lot of good pitches. i'm fighting hard to land on vast instead of weka a work

anyone remember fusion io aka woz's last stand

Sagebrush posted:

I wonder how hosed up my computer would get if I reclaimed A: for what is currently C.

outhole surfer posted:

remember how apartments and offices advertised any broadband as t1, well past 1.544mbit being considered slow

Armitag3 posted:

didn’t know unpowered LCDs were that reflective

Jabor posted:

when "cigarette lighter" was the de facto standard for powering accessories in cars

Sagebrush posted:

that's perfect bmw yep lol.

my favorite one:

bmw's new cars have the alternator connected to the engine with an electromagnetic clutch. this is because the alternator load of 2/3 of a horsepower translates into like a 0.1 mpg reduction in fuel economy. so to minmax that figure, the cars are designed to disconnect the alternator from the engine under certain conditions.

when they introduced this system, it was designed to turn off during highway cruise. that boosted the highway mpg and recharging when driving in the city, when mpg is already lower, would be fine. great!

except they programmed this based on european driving patterns. europeans don't drive on highways anywhere near as much as americans -- so with an american driving pattern, the alternator was disconnected a far greater fraction of the time than they had planned for. after a few months of the cars being on sale in the usa, it was found that they were killing their batteries through perpetual undercharge. well, that sucks. easy fix though right? reprogram the logic?

well no, because that would change the fuel economy. only by a fraction of an mpg, but it would require recertifying the cars and potentially assigning a new fuel economy number. that would open them up to people demanding refunds, claims of false advertising, federal investigations into whether they were faking their numbers -- this was right after vw dieselgate. bmw didn't want to deal with any of that poo poo.

so the solution was: the battery is now a wear item. there is no mitigation, and that generation of bmws kills their battery every six to nine months if driven in a normal american driving cycle. bmw just replaces them with new ones whenever the cars come in for service. rip if you own one out of warranty lol

Manzoon posted:

There are absolutely mouse pads with RGB strips running along the edge now.

Agile Vector posted:

she jabber my friendster until i orkut

Kitfox88 posted:

[EXTREMELY LOUD MICROSOFT TEAMS ALERT SOUND]

theflyingexecutive posted:

that was probably the last time there was a concerted effort by big businesses to fix a big problem. during/after 08, they all realized they could just let the steamroller hit them and pass the costs off onto the consumer and government without any repercussions

Zamujasa posted:

if it was outsourced to the british would it be t_time

Jonny 290 posted:

shhh you'll resummon him

Kitfox88 posted:

sick as loving hell dual touchscreen briefcase computer is cyberpunk as poo poo

Zamujasa posted:

talk about going off on a wild tangent!

Cold on a Cob posted:

i've never zapped a component into oblivion but one time i had a computer case open in the high school computer lab to show someone the different components and someone else yelled "hey let's play craps", picked up the screws, tossed them into the case like a handful of dice, and that computer never worked again vOv

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

i mean, it's now 2024, lol if your idiot kids open all the rare lootboxes instead of building a portfolio of lootbox opening videos