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I suggested an iPad, but that didn't go anywhere. He's going to music school, so he needs a word processor and something to watch Netflix on. He could have also gotten music related apps like a metronome or something and it would have been easy for him to load up sheet music too.I think she ended up getting a Windows 10 2-in-1 so he has some tablet advantages and there's no chance they stuck a platter drive in there. I will now have to help them install a free virus detection program and Malware Bytes because he's 18 years old and he will download viruses. Also I feel really smart for buying a lifetime license for Malware Bytes years ago because now it looks like everything but the most basic free option is subscription based.
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Just get e'm one of these https://usb.brando.com/10-x-micro-sd-to-sata-ssd-adapter-raid-quad-2-5-sata-converter_p13939c46d15.html (Legit amazed I'd never seen a cheap one of these used in budget computers)
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T-man posted:Just get e'm one of these You never see them because they suck rear end and are more expensive than cheap SSDs that suck much less rear end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3frnBoqqI_Q
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T-man posted:Just get e'm one of these Because those SD cards would be dead in a matter of months.
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Mr.Radar posted:You never see them because they suck rear end and are more expensive than cheap SSDs that suck much less rear end: That's a shame, it's cool as gently caress in a ridiculous over the top way.
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Mr.Radar posted:You never see them because they suck rear end and are more expensive than cheap SSDs that suck much less rear end: well you got me to sit through a linus video, and yeah it's exactly what I expected, slow as poo poo not worth the cost.
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LifeSunDeath posted:well you got me to sit through a linus video, and yeah it's exactly what I expected, slow as poo poo not worth the cost. The card or the Linus video?
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Shut up Meg posted:The card or the Linus video? Yep.
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Peanut Butler posted:internet went down and you can't pay it off for a week? no problem, the neighbor's SSID is just LINKSYS This was awesome in college. I spent my first year off campus leeching from the neighbors. Eventually somebody must have moved or wised up and the only place you could get signal was with your laptop basically touching the wall, so I started splitting the bill with a buddy who lived in an adjacent building. I guess video streaming is a big reason WiFi networks got so locked down. Who's gonna notice if somebody's looking at a forum or whatever people did on the internet before Netflix?
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I used to drive around with a Frankenbox laptop and a lovely homebuilt antenna, doing Wardriving and marking open wifi locations on a paper map, and with chalk on the sidewalk. Those were the days, stacks of 2600 magazine in the car, Code Red by the Liter, Aircrack-NG running constantly. Wasted youth. Do people still run custom firmware on routers? I remember banging my head against Tomato and DD-WRT for hours, constantly flashing that poor old WRT54G with poo poo for essentially no reason.
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Antioch posted:I used to drive around with a Frankenbox laptop and a lovely homebuilt antenna, doing Wardriving and marking open wifi locations on a paper map, and with chalk on the sidewalk. Those were the days, stacks of 2600 magazine in the car, Code Red by the Liter, Aircrack-NG running constantly. Wasted youth. I ran Tomato for a few months back in 2015 because I needed a wifi-ethernet bridge and all I had handy was a WRT54G. It worked... ok.
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DD‐WRT had the most features but half of them were traps that cratered the stability of the device. Tomato was the most stable firmware I found hat had the ability to create a bridge. I do not miss the wireless hardware of the twenty‐first century’s first decade.
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I am running Tomato on my router simply because I've been using the same router for the past 6 years.
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I remember using ddwrt on an old piece of poo poo router to turn it into a bridge because I was too broke to afford a wireless card. It actually worked completely fine.
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I still have one set up as a bridge for my cube, because I can't be bothered to track down an airport card for it. Don't even remember what firmware I set up, because I have had no reason to gently caress around with it once I got it working.
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Cojawfee posted:I am running Tomato on my router simply because I've been using the same router for the past 6 years. 
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Chairman Mao posted:I remember using ddwrt on an old piece of poo poo router to turn it into a bridge because I was too broke to afford a wireless card. It actually worked completely fine. Same. It's now serving as a wireless repeater to get wifi out to the garage. Although I'd have to replace it if my internet got any faster, half-duplex 802.11G plus overhead is slower than Christmas. There's just something unbreakable about a 12 year old WRT54G and DD-WRT. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 04:09 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Still using a first gen AirPort Express at home, it's ok.
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Antioch posted:Do people still run custom firmware on routers? I remember banging my head against Tomato and DD-WRT for hours, constantly flashing that poor old WRT54G with poo poo for essentially no reason. I still run DD-WRT on some D-Link poo poo - not used on main network, mainly for hooking up the XBox LAN.
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OpenWRT is good. The gui is easy to use for simple stuff and it also makes it reasonable straightforward to do more complicated routing stuff that's hard or impossible in other alternative router firmwares. I'd generally rate it pretty close to Ubiquiti's software.
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I bought an old Craigslist Dell Poweredge to learn some ESXi and I realized only after getting everything set up that I threw out all my VGA cables during my last tech purge. So I get to buy a new VGA cable in the year 2019. On the plus side it's a good excuse to go on a MicroCenter run! On the negative side I can't get anything newer than ESXi 6.0 and VMware only wants to let me download 6.7 which will not run on hardware this old. 
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Krispy Wafer posted:my last tech purge not saving every wire you've ever gotten is a strong indicator of criminal intent or insanity
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Don Gato posted:When I lived in Vermont, I found out there had been small remote towns with party lines well into the 90s, because that whole state is a throwback My Grandmother had a party line in Arizona until they moved her into a home in '97 or '98. After the early 80's everyone else in town got a regular personal line so grandma just kept the party line as she basically had a private line for 1/4 of the cost. stevewm posted:Its funny how everyone thought in the future every call would be a video call. Then the future arrived. Video calls are possible from just about every cellphone. And a myriad of devices. Yet a good majority of calls are still done audio only. It's hard to call in to work sick when your boss can clearly see you are at the movie theater. uli2000 has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1161641852489076739
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"See Page 650" That's alotta loving pages about radios.
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Johnny Aztec posted:"See Page 650" They might have kept the sequence between issues.
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Maybe it's like those old PC mags in the 90's where 85% of them was mail order ads.
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Those were the best. I miss full page black & white ads with every product categorized and priced that I could just gaze over, wishing I had the money for a Voodoo video card or 128mb’s of RAM. Maybe a 52x CDR to replace my horrible 1x CDR.
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The early 80s was weirder for that. Half the magazine would be 1/6th page black and white ads with a hand-drawn image and the titles of a few clearly home-made games you've never heard of. No screenshots or even descriptions, just titles and prices: <badly photocopied pencil drawing of a dragon> Gorilla Attack (ZX81/VIC20) Cave (ZX81/VIC20/Spectrum) Martian Saucer (VIC20 only) Stalag XIII (Zx81/Spectrum) Space Cruiser 2 (ZX81 only) Typing Teacher (ZX81/VIC20) Send £4.99 each to: <some 15 year old's home address> The actual content wasn't much better. You'd get eight games reviewed in the space of one page, then a four-page feature on some lovely spreadsheet that was only available for an obscure platform, then a nine-page Basic listing (full of typos) for a game that was no fun to play. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 16:31 on Aug 15, 2019 |
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A half-page ad that promises to speed up your Commodore 64 for just $30, and shows a full picture of the circuit board being sold. It is at best a bunch of resistors, inductors, and timing ICs and at worst none of it connects to the card edge.
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Sweevo posted:The early 80s was weirder for that. Half the magazine would be 1/6th page black and white ads with a hand-drawn image and the titles of a few clearly home-made games you've never heard of. No screenshots or even descriptions, just titles and prices:  I like how they often included a calculator watch.
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Computer Shopper was awesome
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Shut up Meg posted:
That, straight to my veins. I still love finding random Best Buy circulars from the mid-90’s.
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I remember the cheap-newsprint smell of the old Radio Shack catalogs. When I was a kid I used to look forward to reading through them from beginning to end.
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Shut up Meg posted:
I had one of those unbranded calculator watches. It was difficult to use, too big to be comfortable and then I got mugged for it on the top deck of a local bus.
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Horace posted:I had one of those unbranded calculator watches. It was difficult to use, too big to be comfortable and then I got mugged for it on the top deck of a local bus. I've always been curious: did the watch bear any resemblance to the Casio calculator watch of the time? That sold for more than £10 at that time, I am sure. (your name/avatar is very apt for this conversation)
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Horace was my first video game! The calculator watch was kinda like the Casio ones... I think it looked a lot like this: But I only had it for about a week so the memory's a bit fuzzy.
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Krispy Wafer posted:That, straight to my veins. I still love finding random Best Buy circulars from the mid-90’s. I have the 1990 Australian Personal Computer Hardware Buyers Guide on my bookshelf and it is a terrifying array of under-specced computers for premium dollars. Not cheesy at all, but it's amazing to see how many different manufacturers there were back then. Anyone remember graphics cards made by Number 9? Their Pepper Pro-1280 had 256 colours (a trade-off for the amazing 1280x1024 resolution) which was a steal at AUS$5,000. The laptop listings are truly frightening. A Zenith SuperPort SX with a 16MHz 386SX CPU with 1MB of RAM (up to 8) and 100MB of HDD was $11,000. Weighed 7.5kg (16.5 lbs).
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Shut up Meg posted:
So I'd never heard of this and did a cursory search, http://pixelatron.com/blog/cassette-50-the-interview/  quote:I was 14 at the time, I guess. There was an ad in our local newspaper, The Argus. It was probably the smallest ad in the paper – a tiny little box, black-and-white, asking for Spectrum games to be sent to some address. I don’t think it even had a company name on, just an address somewhere not too far outside South Wales. It was just an approachable ad – it didn’t scare me. If it had been a bigger software house, someone I knew, then I wouldn’t have sent anything off. But I’d written this thing, so off it went. I didn’t hear anything for a couple of months, and then a cheque arrived for £10. I thought, this is it! I’ve made it! £10! That’s fantastic!
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Gromit posted:Anyone remember graphics cards made by Number 9? Their Pepper Pro-1280 had 256 colours (a trade-off for the amazing 1280x1024 resolution) which was a steal at AUS$5,000. I thought I remembered them, but it was a different manufacturer that had a number in their name:  It was always horrible to see those awesome resolutions in the list but have to pick VGA. I assume they must have been one of the very early ones to have drivers shipped with Windows 3.x. So was that $5K for just a graphics card!?
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