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KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

I tethered my netbook to my feature phone via a USB Bluetooth dongle, dialing up like an old fashioned modem, to access my online banking, in order to transfer the money when I bought my car in 2012.

It felt so futuristic to me. Now I just have an app on my phone for that.

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# ? May 20, 2024 17:09

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

KozmoNaut posted:

I loved my netbook, it was so awesome and tiny and portable.

Then I got a smartphone.

Asus EEEPCs were the hottest thing when they came out. The modding community to make them better was great. Mod in a touchscreen overlay, a USB hub for multiple USB sticks of NAND memory to escape the 8GB internal storage. I dearly loved that thing. Then I too got a smartphone and a proper laptop. I still have an MSI Wind netbook for light duties when I can't be arsed dragging around my Toughbook (sometimes literally dragging).

# ? Mar 9, 2017 08:41

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

I worked at an electronics recycling/reclamation facility for a bit in college and those stupid Toughbooks always seemed like they were every bit as fragile and damage-prone as a regular laptop except 3 times the weight

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Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Toughbooks are the Hummers of the computer industry.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 14:43

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Kelp Me! posted:

I worked at an electronics recycling/reclamation facility for a bit in college and those stupid Toughbooks always seemed like they were every bit as fragile and damage-prone as a regular laptop except 3 times the weight

The screens break pretty easily if you're dumb with them. If you kneel on it or leave your keys in it and slam it shut it's going to break.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 14:57

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

The CF19 was a beast. We had them for years as charting computers, and I've accidentally flung one across a parking lot before and had them come out unscathed.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 16:47

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

The CF19 was a beast. We had them for years as charting computers, and I've accidentally flung one across a parking lot before and had them come out unscathed.

I've had a CF19 and loved it. Currently just a CF-74 which is just 'drop safe', not 'throw it into canyon safe'.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:10

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

My 31 seems like it could take a close proximity nuke.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 19:51

H2SO4: Sep 11, 2001; put your money in a log cabin; Buglord

We deployed them for home health nurses. If they can survive that, they drat sure live up to the name. They did have different flavors though, from fully rugged to "meh."

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:03

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Gah this channel is right up my alley and how about the Antikythera as a tech relic? This guy is amazing with his workmanship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_rCm1rAeg

# ? Mar 14, 2017 12:52

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

Clickspring is great. He's amazingly skilled (and patient) and easy to listen to. Definitely one of my favorite youtube channels.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 13:42

Gonz: Dec 22, 2009; "Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

Someone is machining an Antikythera replica? Holy poo poo.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 13:47

monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

Collateral Damage posted:

Clickspring is great. He's amazingly skilled (and patient) and easy to listen to. Definitely one of my favorite youtube channels.

He's like a more subdued version of the EEVblog guy, it's great!

# ? Mar 14, 2017 14:21

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

Gonz posted:

Someone is machining an Antikythera replica? Holy poo poo.

No.

CLICKSPRING is making an Antikythera mechanism.

That's SO much more amazing. Clickspring is my reason to wake up.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 20:37

EdEddnEddy: Apr 5, 2012

Frozen Pizza Party posted:

I wish it was a story worth telling

Tiko 3d Printer, had high hopes, they shipped 3000/13000 and just basically said sorry we spent all the money trying to make a working product, sorry the first 3k suck, we're looking for investors to invest in a lovely product and failed company.

I got in on the first batch of US Tiko's. While the printer does have its flaws, I still got a working printer FWIW.

Lubed it with some lithium grease (used the spray, bad idea don't do this even though it works) and have the weight mounts printed for the last .01% of slop the motors have in their gearbox, but for the most part the thing prints rather OK now. I just have to figure out the settings to make it print it's best depending on what I am printing and with what filament.

For $175 I can't complain too much since it does work and any printer at the time I KS'ed it the cheapest 3D printers were in the $499+ realm that I can remember, and also weren't very good.
Now there are a ton for $299 or so that are actually quite good and I may pick one of them up. The only big issue I have with the Tiko currently is its too bloody small (especially when I prints its stupid raft, I have to figure out how to get this thing to use Simplify3D or Cura or something).

One of my recent prints was a Business Card holder. Turned out ok and just needs a little sanding.

Man this thread is right up my ally otherwise... I have so much relic tech crap from my first PDA and Windows Mobile phones to Nintendo Virtual Boy hah.

On the talk of Netbooks which brings us to Atom processors, would anyone be interested in a barebones Atom powered HTPC? I have 2 atom boards, (One Intel board with a Atom 270 I bet, 4G ram and not much else, would make a great Nas board. Another Zotac with a D510 Dual Core Atom with Nvidia Ion and Wifi/BT, 4G Ram, etc which makes a capable HTPC) I need to find them good homes as they work great, but take up space I need to start cleaning out. I could part with the Boards+Ram alone or build it into a tiny case and an SSD for a little more.

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# ? Mar 14, 2017 23:34

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

No.

CLICKSPRING is making an Antikythera mechanism.

That's SO much more amazing. Clickspring is my reason to wake up.

Yeah, Clickspring is the important part.

Numerous Antikythera replicas have already been made, and range from cool to ho-hum. Hopefully Clickspring really turns out something amazing with his version though.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 01:34

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

He made a period appropriate vice, so it looks like it should be good.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 01:37

wallaka: Jun 8, 2010; Least it wasn't a fucking red shell

Cojawfee posted:

He made a period appropriate vice, so it looks like it should be good.

Vise.

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Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

A period‐appropriate vice would be pederasty.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 05:22

wallaka: Jun 8, 2010; Least it wasn't a fucking red shell

Platystemon posted:

A period‐appropriate vice would be pederasty.

Exactly.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 05:54

CaptainSarcastic: Jul 6, 2013

wallaka posted:

Vise.

If you're an American it's a vise. If you're British it's a vice.

It's a defense/defence sort of thing.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 06:19

Trabant: Nov 26, 2011; All systems nominal.

wallaka posted:

Vise.

Technically, non-US spelling of the word is 'vice.'

# ? Mar 15, 2017 06:20

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Grammar police: vice cops

# ? Mar 15, 2017 06:26

A FUCKIN CANARY!!: Nov 9, 2005

Trabant posted:

^

Technically, non-US spelling of the word is 'vice.'

Cool, now the "Vice Squad" segment of the old Sam and Max cartoon is 4% less stupid.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 06:32

Frozen Pizza Party: Dec 13, 2005

EdEddnEddy posted:

I got in on the first batch of US Tiko's. While the printer does have its flaws, I still got a working printer FWIW.

Cool that you got one that works, I'm just bitter because like 11k other people, I'm out $250.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 07:06

stuffed crust punk: Oct 8, 2004; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Mystical ninja had what I think is the only instance of an upskirt joke inan n64 game

# ? Mar 15, 2017 13:22

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

Regular Nintendo posted:

Mystical ninja had what I think is the only instance of an upskirt joke inan n64 game

Conker's Bad Fur Day probably had one

# ? Mar 15, 2017 17:10

EdEddnEddy: Apr 5, 2012

Frozen Pizza Party posted:

Cool that you got one that works, I'm just bitter because like 11k other people, I'm out $250.

Yea I can understand that completely.

The one major backing I did on KS was for Touch VR which turned out to be a great project with one bad dude that handled the money. Left all the devs high and dry and bought a house or something. That $600 I will never see again.

Luckily the only other fails were a few $15-20 games. The rest so far has come through.

I still hold a little hope with Tiko since they have a lot of good IP/Assets and a setup manufacture process so I would think if they can get some investors or another 3D printing company that wanted to get into building Delta printers, would make them an attractive buy.

Guess we will have to wait and see.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 17:45

Frozen Pizza Party: Dec 13, 2005

EdEddnEddy posted:

Yea I can understand that completely.

The one major backing I did on KS was for Touch VR which turned out to be a great project with one bad dude that handled the money. Left all the devs high and dry and bought a house or something. That $600 I will never see again.

Luckily the only other fails were a few $15-20 games. The rest so far has come through.

I still hold a little hope with Tiko since they have a lot of good IP/Assets and a setup manufacture process so I would think if they can get some investors or another 3D printing company that wanted to get into building Delta printers, would make them an attractive buy.

Guess we will have to wait and see.

Yeah, I'd be ecstatic if they found an investor to take over the project or something, but I'm not putting my eggs in that basket. It really is appealing, as a DIY delta owner, the frustration and tribulation that I've gone through to get this printer working the way I want it, and working well has been a ton, but that's all part of the game. I really wanted the Tiko to just churn out simple poo poo for my etsy shop, which it would have been great at doing. So all in all, it's just the money that's got the bad taste in my mouth, and I'm pretty bummed about the project not being fulfilled as planned.

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