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Zopotantor posted:Just make sure the paper doesn't get tangled in the bell that announces a new message. Oh Christ, what is this??? Dr Strangelove? E; found it! You had my brain working for quite some time. Andromeda Strain spog has a new favorite as of 21:58 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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spog posted:Oh Christ, what is this??? You can't tweet in here, this is the White House!
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Platystemon posted:You can pry my document feeder from my cold, dead hands. I have one purchased second-hand about 15 years ago which I tried to use for the first time recently and the feeder wheels aren't working very well. They seemed to have some coating on them, maybe mold. I looked up the instructions for how to clean them, and it specified that I use some particular chemical, but when I googled it it says it's now considered carcinogenic. I'm not sure I need the document feeder that much. I suppose there must be some other way to clean rubber wheels though, maybe I'll try to figure that out next year, I've done enough this year 
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Buttcoin purse posted:I have one purchased second-hand about 15 years ago which I tried to use for the first time recently and the feeder wheels aren't working very well. They seemed to have some coating on them, maybe mold. I looked up the instructions for how to clean them, and it specified that I use some particular chemical, but when I googled it it says it's now considered carcinogenic. I'm not sure I need the document feeder that much. I suppose there must be some other way to clean rubber wheels though, maybe I'll try to figure that out next year, I've done enough this year Ask the FOOF thread about how bad the chemical actually is. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3602006
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Zopotantor posted:Just make sure the paper doesn't get tangled in the bell that announces a new message. That only matters when a Directive 7-12 is involved.
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It’s probably a solvent you can pick up in the paint aisle. Most of the good ones are carcinogenic.
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Platystemon posted:
Perfect thread title for FOOF or OSHA threads
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Wait, are we talking like actually carcinogenic, or just California carcinogenic?
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Sep 10, 2017 13:17
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Horace posted:And they deserved it. Those earbuds were terrible. I have that exact head unit in one of my cars, although I don't use the internal iPod dock any more and just Bluetooth it up to my iPhone.
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So the TI-99/4A isn't working. It just emits a horrible noise through the TV and no picture. Hopefuly, taking it apart and reseating things will be enough, 'cause I dunno how to do much omre than that.
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Telex is still in use on ships, sorta. The GMDSS console has some Telex capability as some posts still is it, but honestly email/Inmarsat has replaced it.
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Keiya posted:actually carcinogenic, or just California carcinogenic? lol, I'd never seen it put quite that way. Sometime I might go and dig out the manual again and post to the FOOF thread as suggested and report back.
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Obsolete: windmills, thanks to the LIMPET - Linear Induction Machine Programmed Electric Turbine - a prototype wind-powered generator from the 1980s. (From an article on renewables in the 1990 edition of the Collins Encyclopaedia's yearly science update supplements.)  It looks like a shorter version was originally published in the more entertainingly obsolete Radio Electronics, May 1987, which has a whole supplement of its own about life in 2001. 
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uvar posted:Obsolete: windmills, thanks to the LIMPET - Linear Induction Machine Programmed Electric Turbine - a prototype wind-powered generator from the 1980s. (From an article on renewables in the 1990 edition of the Collins Encyclopaedia's yearly science update supplements.) But isn't the point of a windmill the fact that wind direction doesn't really matter?
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That thing has to have crazy frictional losses
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No way could that work unless the roof is being blown off.
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Fo3 posted:I have to admit I know next to nothing about telex. All I knew was businesses had them for written comms before they were replaced with fax. I had no idea that were typewriters used for chat sessions. afaik a Motorola moto g is the best price/performance choice right now. they're amazing pieces of kit.
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the 2nd-gen Moto X is the greatest smartphone I have ever owned and you can get a certified refurb for $110 outright e: the only real downside is they stopped releasing Android updates for it at Lollipop (even 6.0/M is tricky; they released an OTA update for it on some versions of the phone so you can manually apply that patch with a bit of fuckery but it's literally never been an issue for me and I'm sure it would never come up for someone who hasn't had a cell phone in 3 years. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 12:07 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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Kelp Me! posted:the 2nd-gen Moto X is the greatest smartphone I have ever owned and you can get a certified refurb for $110 outright This doesn't really count, but I got a Moto Nexus 6 cheap a few months ago. All my Samsung/iPhone fanyboy friends like it. I mostly enjoy the "oh what Motorola are still around?"
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Humphreys posted:This doesn't really count, but I got a Moto Nexus 6 cheap a few months ago. All my Samsung/iPhone fanyboy friends like it. I mostly enjoy the "oh what Motorola are still around?" yeah, I dunno why they had separate names, the N6 was basically the Moto X2+; slightly better specs and a bigger screen. One of the reasons I like the X2 so much is it's the perfect size for me, even the very-slightly-bigger X Pure and N6 felt a bit too large in my hand.
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The downside to getting one of the slightly older but otherwise good phones is the lack of security updates, though. It certainly helps that the apps and the frameworks still get updates through play store, but you're still theoretically vulnerable to whatever OS-targetting badness goes around. I'm genuinely unsure how much of a real problem that is, but it's not ideal. I lay a lot of the blame at Qualcomm and the other component manufacturers for giving up very quickly on driver support; hopefully Google's Treble effort (to standardise a base OS that both drivers and new android versions can target for longer) will eventually help with this. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 18:12 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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You can pry my waterproof, replaceable battery and sd card S5 from my cold, dead hands.
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Im happy enough with my waterproof micro-sd S8, and by the time the battery begins to fade I'll have to replace it to get software updates anyway. Which is annoying on multiple levels, by all means. I'm personally of the opinion that phones should be sold with prominent "will get security updates until at least X date" and "will retain 75% battery capacity for at least Y years of realistic use" labels on the packaging.
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I believe one of the big changes with Oreo is that they're changing the way they develop to make software updates more available across phone models e: yeah https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-8-0-oreo-thoroughly-reviewed/2/#h1 
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Oreo seems fine so far. No big deal difference at all.
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Kelp Me! posted:I believe one of the big changes with Oreo is that they're changing the way they develop to make software updates more available across phone models Thank god. It's ridiculous that over half of Android devices aren't even on Marshmallow because currently updates need to be signed off by both the OEM and, for some bizarre reason, the carrier.
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i still carry a nexus 6 because it's awesome getting the new android versions right away and its big and fast and you can pry it from my cold dead hand oh and theres no bloatware
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Efexeye posted:i still carry a nexus 6 because it's awesome getting the new android versions right away and its big and fast and you can pry it from my cold dead hand Yeah that was a big deciding factor in picking up the Moto X2, it's about as close as you can get to a Nexus as far as the "pure" android experience. The original Moto X was similar, I loved that phone as well. Hell, I'm pretty much a Motorola fanboy, my cell phone history was Nokia candybar->Samsung Alias 2-> Motorola Razr -> Treo 650 -> Motorola Q -> Moto Droid X2 -> Moto Bionic -> Moto Razr Maxx -> Moto X -> Moto X2. I've never had a single issue with any of them, and some of them (the Q and the Bionic, notably) were pretty far ahead of the pack for their time. Shame the Moto Z and Z2 are supposed to be pretty meh.
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Motorola needs to stop using the X. No poo poo I've thought that the droid X or whatever was a fanboy phone that was still popular 3-4 years on because people shorten the name the same. This conversation is actually what cleared it up.
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i broke teh screen on my first nexus 6 and when i told the guy in the store that i wanted to use the jump program to get a reconditioned nexus 6 instead of something new he looked at me like i was insane. i'll be sad when something happens to this one and i can't get another one
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Kelp Me! posted:Yeah that was a big deciding factor in picking up the Moto X2, it's about as close as you can get to a Nexus as far as the "pure" android experience. The original Moto X was similar, I loved that phone as well. I went from Motorola cheap flip phone (T720?) -> Razr v3m -> Moto Droid -> Moto Droid Razr -> Moto Droid Maxx -> Moto Droid Turbo 2 -> Google Pixel I loved the original Droid because it weighed a ton and you had no fear of breaking the thing. The only truly bad experience I had was with the Turbo 2.
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Still using my 5x. I really like it and the perfect size for me.
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Sup 5X buddy. It really is a great phone, especially at its price.
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Kelp Me! posted:Yeah that was a big deciding factor in picking up the Moto X2, it's about as close as you can get to a Nexus as far as the "pure" android experience. The original Moto X was similar, I loved that phone as well. You'd think. Lollipop came out...Fall of 2014 I think. I just looked up when my Moto X finally got 5.1. October of 2015. So a year, on one of the purest Google phones not called a Nexus (originally sold when Google still owned Motorola). After waiting 8 months for Android 5, I ditched my Moto X for an iPhone. Sucks because it was a nice phone. And I know OS versions aren't as big a deal on Android, but Google really shouldn't have to backdoor updates via the Play store. It's like Apple is the only one who can strong arm carriers.
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Collateral Damage posted:Sup 5X buddy. It really is a great phone, especially at its price. They own  . I'd get another if this one was lost.
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also the Motorola Droid 4 was the single greatest slide-out-keyboard Android phone of all time by a wide margin look at this indestructible motherfucker 
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They don't even make phones with keyboards anymore that don't cost like 600 bucks.
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Probably because it's redundant since they have keyboards on the screen.
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With practice you can type really quite well on those. I'd like a quality Android keyboard phone for <moonbucks.
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I loved the androids with keyboards, I had the first tmobile android phone and that swing down keyboard was awesome. So much better than using the on screen.
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