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Mantle: May 15, 2004

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

and history proved microsoft right, in that no one have been able to even pretend to ship an operating system without a webview component for a decade+ by now.

Windows is a distro that calls itself an operating system

# ¿ Jun 19, 2021 19:17

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# ¿ Mar 22, 2025 01:02

Mantle: May 15, 2004

The Parlor

# ¿ Aug 16, 2021 08:35

Mantle: May 15, 2004

In my last job I was doing Stripe integrations and you can get direct access to dev support chat from actual engineers via IRC. The chat room wasn't that busy so setting up IRC must be a pretty effective barrier.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2021 16:12

Mantle: May 15, 2004

ADINSX posted:

is there a documentary on this or something? I'm a bit too young to remember all of this

The Black Sunday kill was pretty epic

https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/

# ¿ Aug 29, 2021 04:00

Mantle: May 15, 2004

There were books in the library that were printouts of programs (games even) that I borrowed and inputted into the BASIC interpreter.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2021 17:38

Mantle: May 15, 2004

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I use one to pay the few paper bills I still get.

How does the cuecat fit into that workflow?

# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 15:32

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Agile Vector posted:

that reminds me i have an old drive with a fried board from a time when those were still swappable

When and how did this stop being a thing? I still use platter drives a lot as secondaries.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 18:51

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Jonny 290 posted:

the handheld ham radio i use to talk to the other goon hams can send and receive texts, and features t9 layout. it rules

I want to get into packet radio. Link to project?

# ¿ Nov 15, 2021 17:41

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Sagebrush posted:

just fuckin...look at what we lost

just look at the contrast on that first screenshot. the crispness. the depth. flipping from leopard to monterey is like taking off your glasses. it's a disaster. a travesty

I stayed on the cats as long as I could to keep those jelly bean ui widgets

# ¿ Dec 11, 2021 08:28

Mantle: May 15, 2004

teaching a person how to open a file with a double click when they were slow clicking

then teaching the same person to rename a file using slow click instead of double clicking

# ¿ Mar 21, 2022 20:00

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Anyone here have a yaesu ft60r programming cable they're not using?

# ¿ May 15, 2022 06:58

Mantle: May 15, 2004

AnalogX

# ¿ Sep 27, 2022 05:26

Mantle: May 15, 2004

nudgenudgetilt posted:

my first isp was sorta like that -- by default upon logging in you were dropped in a unix shell and had to type ppp or something to start the ppp session. fortunately they shipped login scripts with their evaluation copy of trumped, so you didn't really have to worry about it

Looking back it's amazing how much the knowledge barrier has changed in order to get online. I don't even remember where I learned what PPP was or how to run scripts before the https://www. By reading usenet and README.txt files?

# ¿ Nov 9, 2022 18:40

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Nitr0 posted:

these stupid things on passenger airplanes so you can use your own headphones

I was on a flight in the 2000s that still had pneumatic headphones. No adapter possible!

# ¿ Nov 17, 2022 20:10

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

also those dvd dongles for the o.g. Xbox becuase of the dvd codec licensing or whatever it was

I have one of these and kept it for my rpi openelec build because it had native support. I'm not using it anymore so if anyone wants it I'll send it over for the cost of shipping.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2022 22:26

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Carthag Tuek posted:

i cut my mini-sim down to nano with a box cutter for one of my previous iphones

I bought a special hole punch tool to turn mini sims into micro sims. Ended up only using it once before nano sims came around.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2023 20:01

Mantle: May 15, 2004

I remember programming my first VCR that supported those TV codes that told it when to start and stop rather than having to manually enter that data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code

# ¿ Feb 17, 2023 23:52

Mantle: May 15, 2004

nudgenudgetilt posted:

nissan.com

Lol what's the story behind this?

# ¿ May 18, 2023 16:24

Mantle: May 15, 2004

rotor posted:

pars are cool tho

Seriously, this poo poo was the best thing ever in the small window of time where it was relevant. It was so awesome to have a single par file be able to replace ANY one missing file from the set.

# ¿ May 22, 2023 07:39

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Early Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Day of Defeat are all blended into one memory in my head. Can anyone tell them apart?

# ¿ Jun 28, 2023 19:09

Mantle: May 15, 2004

well-read undead posted:

i first played monkey island with pc speaker audio, was astonished when i later heard it at a friend’s house who had a sound blaster 16

At least that's a point and click game. I played Doom before I had a sound card.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2023 08:00

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Volmarias posted:

Machinima in the form of Q2 demo files.

That was actually very cool for the time, though, ngl.

I still save these in my junk drawer folder on my NAS

# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 15:56

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Beeftweeter posted:

which one was that?

i think the smallest phone i had was a motorola v60c and i loved that thing. i used it for almost a decade

I loved this thing, you wear it around your neck with a lanyard.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 00:12

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Carthag Tuek posted:

nice

when i was 13 i took a "survivalism" elective where we learned orienteering & morse code etc, then by year end we went on a trip to a major forest for a weekend to try it out in practice

i somehow got away from the group (lol) so i just walked in a straight line until i found a dirt road, then followed that to a paved road, then followed that until i saw signs for a village where i knew my cousins lived. probably some 20km total. they werent home so i asked the neighbor if i could borrow their phone & called mom who picked me up and got me back to the group

they hadnt even noticed i was missing for like 5 hours, mom was pissed lol

Other than not staying put when you were lost, I think navigating along landmarks *is* the right way to go. I teach navigation and so many people are just fixated on dead reckoning their way to the objective with a bearing and pacing beads instead of doing sensible things like follow the road, turn right at the fence, etc.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2023 08:57

Mantle: May 15, 2004

A Bad King posted:

Horrible ewaste. What a terrible idea.

It doesn't become ewaste if you never throw it out! Mine is a ps2 one but I am running out of computers with ps2 ports. Does it work with those ps2 to usb dongles?

# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 16:28

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Gubbinal Girl posted:

This reminds me of the pirated version of Alpha Protocol (should probably buy it and play it again) where all the UI sound effects were replaced with an injury "Ugh!" sound

Edit: wasn't there a game that had an anti-piracy thing make the game unbeatable a few hours in? I remember the idea was that the crackers would only play the first level so they wouldn't realize they hadn't fully cracked it

http://media.earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/index.html

Earthbound would crash on the final boss and delete your saves.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2023 22:04

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Since all vm is spam now and my carrier doesn't support visual voicemail, the pro move is to set your vacation responder so that callers can't leave voice mails!

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 18:35

Mantle: May 15, 2004

NoneMoreNegative posted:

lol I've had an upscaled and tidied logo in my 'to print' folder for ages.

If you want the full-size:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mfdmavfij9c0s824f2xed/psyglogo_print-transp-40cmW.png?rlkey=jx6nw26i55tax77xxo0luhsvp&dl=0

Would you mind if I uploaded this to Wikimedia or similar so that the effort to upscale it wasn't lost to time?

# ¿ Oct 30, 2023 20:26

Mantle: May 15, 2004

My first nice case was an Antec 300 after building beige box after beige box. It was nice to have thumb screws to open up and not cut myself on sharp edges. Then my next case was a Silverstone. My "final" case is an Ncase M1.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2024 22:19

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Wild EEPROM posted:

the turning point was the hand washing technique ted talk

Follow it up with the hand drying one

# ¿ Mar 2, 2024 18:08

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Branch Nvidian posted:

they're very into that mid-to-late 00s tech aesthetic. afaik they still have a working titanium powerbook too, though their main laptop is a 2011 mbp with a disc-drive delete ssd mod

I have this MBP. It is the last of the MacBooks with modular RAM, SSD and optical drives.

I'm about to retire it to the free cycler unless anyone here wants it.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 01:12

Mantle: May 15, 2004

njsykora posted:

also hilariously unreliable because of the same issue early xbox 360's had where the gpu will just get so hot it'll decide to not be connected to the motherboard any more. still want one though.

I have a CECHA PS3 that had the yellow light of death that I bought for $30. I think I sent it in to Sony for repair for around $200 around 2010 and it's been working great ever since.

I was close to just giving it away a few years ago but it's kind of turned the corner where I'm discovering new things about it, like apparently my ICO and Shadow of the Colossus has 3D TV support that only works on PS3 hardware.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2024 23:49

Mantle: May 15, 2004

njsykora posted:

there's actually a reason why it would be that reliable if you sent it in in 2010, after the ps3 slim came out if you sent a fat in for repair sony would've installed the more efficient gpu from the ps3 slim in it instead of replacing the horrible 90nm original gpu just because those would be the parts they had on hand. so they just removed the main failure point from your system. you can promote that fact if you ever sell it because some people specifically look for those repaired systems.

I just looked at the work order and it says the work was done in December 2009, and the PS3 slim was released Sept 2009 so that could be it. Is there a way to visually tell if I have the slim GPU or the fat GPU if I ever opened it up?

# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 00:16

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Beeftweeter posted:

isn't that just DLNA? a lot of devices from that era will do something similar. even the 360

That era? That's my current setup with the VLC app on Chromecast with Google TV. It has DLNA client that connects to my DLNA server on my Synology NAS.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 18:56

Mantle: May 15, 2004

axolotl farmer posted:

Google and MS who had been in the business of IP calls with GMeats and Skype for years, getting dunked on by no name Zoom.

then MS forgetting about Skype altogether and launching Teams.

Skype for business, we don't talk about Skype for business.

Is video calling really anything other than a race to the bottom of who can provide the cheapest service? There have been so many changes of "most popular" platform over the years and I don't see any economic moats between switching services.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2024 22:05

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Beve Stuscemi posted:

MXM was pretty good, you could upgrade the GPU in your mega beefcake gaming laptop without buying a whole new laptop. Also if (when) the GPU cooked itself to death within the confines of a gaming laptop, you could replace just the GPU instead of the entire motherboard.

I'm pretty sure you could get up to 20-series nvidia GPU's on MXM, I know they at least had a 1080ti on MXM, becuase that was the holy grail of the alienware laptop I used to own

I believe the Holy Grail MXM card is actually a Voodoo 4

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=100871

# ¿ Jun 18, 2024 20:51

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Google giving away $150 AdWords credit without copay

Using that credit to create ads for my Dropbox referral link to get 22gb of space

# ¿ Jun 20, 2024 08:13

Mantle: May 15, 2004

Sagebrush posted:

what is the name for the expression they are both making? it's not a smile, but their mouths are open, but not their teeth, just their lips. just their lips pulled back to show their top teeth without smiling.

i don't think my face even makes that expression. what is it

the Ron DeSantis

# ¿ Jun 27, 2024 21:16

Mantle: May 15, 2004

prompt $p$g

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 21:14

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# ¿ Mar 22, 2025 01:02

Mantle: May 15, 2004

It is common for lending terms to include prepayment penalties. Do you have a mortgage? Is there a penalty to pay it off before the term ends?

# ¿ Dec 27, 2024 22:35

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