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remember gateway cows? i ordered a friend a gateway computer using the dreamcast browser.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:toilet droppers local 219 part of the consumer tp shortage even with restrictions on purchase per person is because people are making GBS threads at home. commercial tp has had no shortages, but it's a completely different supply channel. you can get all the tp you want from uline or whatever.
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tumblr just came up conversation with my neighbor and i had a laugh again how yahoo paid $1.1bn for it then it was offloaded by yahoo's successor verizon for less than $3m.
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May 16, 2020 15:18
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aphid_licker posted:Samoyedic seems chill, just doing its thing on that little branch off to the side i think they're missing basque which would be in a similar type situation.
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May 19, 2020 18:27
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Truniht posted:Koreans can read most Japanese characters. They also can do that with Cantonese. kanji and hanja are descended from written chinese, but have nothing to do with spoken language.
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May 25, 2020 14:57
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old school rice cookers that use the curie point of a strip of metal are the best just because of how they work.
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the headphone jacks and audio cords were so you could pass audio directly without involving your cpu. you could power a cd-rom drive with a 12v source, never plug in the data cable, plug in your headphones, and press play on the drive and listen to music. you may have never hooked up that audio cable, but it could make cd music play faster and not bog down your cpu or anything. you didn’t need a software cd-player. could play a music cd while working in dos.
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echinopsis posted:I used to leave my dialup on 24/7 as I paid for a dedicated line and had huge collection of 700mb movies when i was a kid i convinced my mom to let me leave dialup running overnight so i could download the 50mb diablo trial installer. the download completed but was corrupted so i didn't get to play diablo.
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Nov 27, 2020 14:17
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Soricidus posted:vcd chat reminded me of that dumb thing games did for a while where they only rendered alternate lines of their fmv. god it looked awful, and I say that as someone with a glossy monitor that’s because crts have used interlacing or lit up only one half of the lines for decades. everyone has been using various lcd and similar displays for 10-15 years so interlaced video seems really bizarre on them. if you played those rendered scenes on an old tube tv they’d look fine.
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Nov 28, 2020 14:16
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Soricidus posted:I’m pretty sure I wasn’t playing games on an lcd display in 1996 i misunderstood your complaint.
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Nov 28, 2020 20:48
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right click is not allowed on this website
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Jan 15, 2021 14:52
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duz posted:always middle click all links i do this on everything except loving lexis because doing that just brings you right to the exact same point in the case or statute that you were looking at instead of opening up the actual link. you have to right click and click open in a new tab to get it to work right.
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Truman Peyote posted:Lol, remember when it turned out that the british navy was still running "windows for submarines", which was basically just win XP, in like 2016 or something? the us navy still had windows xp on a fuckton of computers in 2013 when i got out. i had a standalone win2k machine for one piece of software we had to use.
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mediaphage posted:you’re really misreading my point here which was that compared to a lot of devices at the time the hardware was great. the software sucked which is why it was a failure. normally non ipads had lovely hardware and lovely software both. is that not still the case?
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Apr 15, 2021 15:46
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rokr? how about this: steve jobs told george bodenheimer (then espn ceo) that this phone was the dumbest loving idea he had ever heard after george introduced himself at job's first disney board meeting. jobs then turned around and left the dude standing there slackjawed.
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when jobs met him and told him that, the iphone was already in development and would launch less than a year later.
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steve telling the head of espn that their phone with sprint was the stupidest idea he'd ever loving heard at a disney board of directors meeting when the dude was just trying to introduce himself is another example. the iphone was revealed a few months later.
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this sound brings me back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJYNtI2ul4
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so it wasn’t pronounced juarez? thats what my friends and i always thought as kids.
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Aug 14, 2021 11:53
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:imagine using irc in tyool 2021! its a major component of us military comms. irc is useful as gently caress at sea. much easier than any other form of communication.
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Aug 26, 2021 19:25
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FMguru posted:it also lets the military do comms in microsoft comic chat i.e. the jerkcity universe i was considered a wizard because i knew how to skin mirc so everyone wanted me to teach them my arcane ways. little did i know that being 11 and jumping on irc in the mid 90s would have one day led to such great heights.
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Aug 26, 2021 20:30
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i did some satellite smart card loading back in the day. we’d have to hotglue the telephone cord port shut because people would plug in the telephone and dtv would brick that card and soon after brick all cards loaded with that current crack.
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Aug 30, 2021 12:28
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i’ve still got a standard two button plus wheel mouse and never really needed anything else.
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Volmarias posted:Gonna need you to explain the vcr cleaning fluid one poppers, op.
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Oct 29, 2021 13:23
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RobobTheGreat posted:this is probably a stupid question, but...how did that happen? my guess is they did not use distilled water and did not ever cycle out old water. there’s gonna be some nasty poo poo living in there. the thing isn’t getting boiling hot, so it’s just a warm stagnant pool. dinguses didn’t understand this danger, and would get nasty water on them. easy enough to ingest if you don’t wash your hands and everything thoroughly after.
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Nov 2, 2021 13:29
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i deleted it just now without issue from the music app on my phone. didn’t realize it was there.
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i used mulatto butts from archer as a ringtone for a long time. i converted it myself, and previous poster was correct it is as simple as renaming an .m4a to .m4r and popping it into itunes. i used this for my text tone when my friend texted me for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhNDtSqPRA&t=31s
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just the “today, we are canceling the apocalypse!” part
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he did upgrade a bunch of things between the first and second visit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtKT9_1KXQ mtv wanted him to rent some big mansion which is what most people on there apparently do. he said gently caress that come to my house. i don't know if the revisit is still on youtube, but that's the og.
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Mantle posted:teaching a person how to open a file with a double click when they were slow clicking i just tried to teach a 77 year old how to use aerosnap via a lovely remote connection. 
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ganooooooo
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Sweevo posted:claiming credit for other people's work by attaching the word "gnu" to it is literally goal #1 of gnu see e.g. gnu/linux
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The_Franz posted:if you have to care about formatting, it means you aren’t using an auto-format tool in tyool 2022, and that’s bad it makes me sad when people don’t use the basic features build into word. like it will autogenerate beautiful tables of contents and tables of authorities but you have to actually use the heading tools and such built in.
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mystes posted:It's kind of hard to use styles in word well. I guess styles can be based on other styles, but you can't apply multiple paragraph or character styles at the same time? absolutely. i set up my own templates when i was a lawyer and i still use them. heading 1 is primary heading all caps, bold, and underlined. heading 2 is bold all caps no underline, and heading 3 is bold regular case no underline. normal text is double spaced justified and block quotes are single space double indent justified. works great!
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here's the default styles: you can make any amount of changes to those and save them as a template or even make your own!
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can you show me what you’re talking about because i’m not certain what you mean.
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mystes posted:Imagine you have a book that has text at multiple indent levels (call them indent level 1, indent level 2, etc.) and you have paragraph styles for each indent level. Imagine you also have a paragraph style that applies a border (ignoring the fact that using paragraph borders sucks in word for various reasons). ok i get what you’re saying now. i’ve never tried to do something like that because it would never come up in the drafting of documents i did as a lawyer or now as an academic, but i’ll dick around a bit when i get home and see if there’s a simple solution.
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mystes posted:Imagine you have a book that has text at multiple indent levels (call them indent level 1, indent level 2, etc.) and you have paragraph styles for each indent level. Imagine you also have a paragraph style that applies a border (ignoring the fact that using paragraph borders sucks in word for various reasons). i didn't actually try to do this yet, but i think you would have to just set up separate styles for the separate styled things. i don't think there's a way to make variable substyles, but i could be wrong. this is where you start to get into very niche things where you might as well use some form of tex or something.
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