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Lotion Tester posted:My current phone is a Nexus 5X and I wish it didn't have a headphone jack. About once a month it gets so packed full of crud that it thinks headphones are connected when they aren't and I have to swab it out to get sound again. Oh, I thought you were actually being serious before. Egg on my face I guess.
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Reported for filth and anatomical inaccuracy.
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thepopmonster posted:Reported for filth and anatomical inaccuracy. Is the duck penis you're seeing not corkscrew shaped enough for your approval?
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SubNat posted:Oh, I thought you were actually being serious before. I'm being completely serious. My phone rides in my front left pocket so it gets all sorts of pocket fluff and junk in it, sometimes even getting the charger to make a good connection is a challenge.
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Dec 20, 2019 14:39
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thepopmonster posted:Reported for filth and anatomical inaccuracy. Ah, yes...thumbnail-sized it does have a certain look.
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Lotion Tester posted:My current phone is a Nexus 5X and I wish it didn't have a headphone jack. About once a month it gets so packed full of crud that it thinks headphones are connected when they aren't and I have to swab it out to get sound again. Whoah. A working 5X in the year 2019.
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Dec 20, 2019 15:23
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Lotion Tester posted:I'm being completely serious. My phone rides in my front left pocket so it gets all sorts of pocket fluff and junk in it, sometimes even getting the charger to make a good connection is a challenge. My old iPhone 4S always had a kind of a wonky 30-pin connector so it went in a bit uneven on one side. Or so I thought until years into the device's life I used like a toothpick or something to clear out any lint that might've gotten in there and surprise surprise, the connector finally fit in straight and flush. Never gave me any trouble though, even if the connector always seemed like one of the most wonky, unreliable designs outside of Sony Ericsson's absolutely dreadful connectors that had a 100% failure rate.
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Dec 20, 2019 15:35
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azurite posted:Whoah. A working 5X in the year 2019.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I loved my 5X until it died in the exact way that they all did, about two weeks after Google stopped giving full refunds for that exact known issue. same
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Dec 20, 2019 16:54
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You're all going to be so jealous when I post pics of my still working 5X in this thread in 2040.
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Dec 20, 2019 17:29
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 i couldn't kill this motherfucker back in the day
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Dec 20, 2019 17:48
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I bought the 5X at $200, probably got a year and a half or so out of it before Fi gave me $150 to trade it in. I didn't have any sort of failure yet, so I think I made out on that deal.
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azurite posted:I bought the 5X at $200, probably got a year and a half or so out of it before Fi gave me $150 to trade it in. I didn't have any sort of failure yet, so I think I made out on that deal.
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Lotion Tester posted:I'm being completely serious. My phone rides in my front left pocket so it gets all sorts of pocket fluff and junk in it, sometimes even getting the charger to make a good connection is a challenge. This is a problem I've had with literally every phone I've owned. Contactless charging has been a godsend.
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Pham Nuwen posted:same 0k b00m3r
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Dec 20, 2019 21:05
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Kind of thrilled to learn about tiny little headphone jack butt plugs
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Dec 20, 2019 21:25
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I guess it makes sense that there'd be people sounding an audio jack.
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Dec 20, 2019 23:59
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 Vanagoon posted:It annoys me that Apple has removed ftp.apple.com and not replaced the contents elsewhere. archive.org has this covered too: https://archive.org/details/download.info.apple.com.2012.11 Well, it's not "ftp.apple.com" but I think it's the same 
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I used to have 2x DVDRs that had every single Windows installer from the original release all the way up to something like XP, plus all the DOS releases. Never needed them, but I made sure I always knew where those discs were just in case.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I used to have 2x DVDRs that had every single Windows installer from the original release all the way up to something like XP, plus all the DOS releases. Never needed them, but I made sure I always knew where those discs were just in case. You can still find them.  They're handy if you like experimenting with old tech.
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Dr. Quarex posted:The Nexus 5X is actually the reason I now have a $20 ZTE smartphone. I had already been burned on a couple of moderately expensive phones breaking for seemingly no reason, but I was not sure it was NOT my fault. Then my Nexus 5X bootlooped itself to death, Google replaced it for some fee, and then the replacement started doing the same thing the predictable like one week after they would have replaced it for anything less than full price. I believe my explanation on the "why are you cancelling your service" form had the highest number of obscenities per capita of any service cancellation message in history, and that $20 is the most I have spent on a phone since. I would rather have a dumb phone at this point than buy another $400-to-$0 six-month finance reduction plan. I just had to replace my $40 smartphone with a $125 smartphone because after 3 years the touchscreen on the old phone started failing. I wanted at least a mild upgrade, and I figure the $125 price isn't that bad for a one-time purchase. I don't have really high demands in terms of how powerful my phone is, but is nice having it be faster and more responsive. I should probably get a case for the new one, as that is as close to insurance I am willing to pay for. My only experience trying to use the "phone insurance" was with a previous carrier and would have required a fee high enough that it was much easier to just buy a new phone. It also soured me on Verizon. Since 2008 every time I have changed carrier I ended up with better service and a lower price.
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Buttcoin purse posted:
I couldn't remember the exact name of the site but this is what I meant. The page with the System 7.5.3 disk images is broken though  This was officially the last version of the old mac system software that was offered for free.https://ia800501.us.archive.org/vie....3%2Findex.html Not much use without working disk image files.
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Vanagoon posted:The page with the System 7.5.3 disk images is broken though Looks like there's an issue with their archive viewer where the links in index.html files don't work at all, but if you just click on the links to disk images in that directory in the directory listing they seem to work. Or just download the entire 7.4GB mirror just in case 
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rndmnmbr posted:You can still find them. I’m pretty sure Windows 3.11 for workgroups isn’t really in the sense that anyone cares about. Microsoft isn’t making money off your 486DX computer anymore. It’s all here: https://winworldpc.com/home
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Dec 21, 2019 16:02
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Can we just link to anything on archive.org without it being ? I think that it should be ok to do that.
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Dec 21, 2019 16:27
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m pretty sure Windows 3.11 for workgroups isn’t really You can still download floppy disk images from Microsoft via MSDN; I think since it could still be used as a low end embedded OS, since the specs to run it now are so low.
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Pretty good posted:Can we just link to anything on archive.org without it being Yeah the version on archive is the XISO one I had, except likely updated since. https://archive.org/details/all_windows_dvd Surely YouTube rules apply when dealing with stuff posted on archive.org
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah the version on archive is the XISO one I had, except likely updated since. Once you tell someone to go to archive.org, you then have to tell them to watch a white nationalist propaganda video?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m pretty sure Windows 3.11 for workgroups isn’t really This site also has the old Mac OSes, along with BeOS and a bunch of others. Need a copy of DOS for your Atari 800? They gotcha covered.
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Yeah it’s a really good resource actually. I remember some of the classic macOS’s being hard to track down
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Drastic Actions posted:You can still download floppy disk images from Microsoft via MSDN; I think since it could still be used as a low end embedded OS, since the specs to run it now are so low. it's not even useful for embedded things. it has no drivers for anything remotely modern and a $45 arm board will leave a 486 in the dust while using a fraction of the power
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The Fool posted:There was a Sony Ericsson MP3 player phone that came out before the iPhone.  The iPhones wasn't the first phone to integrate iTunes either. Motorola and Apple released a phone together a couple of years before the iPhone that synced your iTunes playlists and purchases. The Moto Rokr E1, based on an existing Motorola phone, had a UI similar to ipods of the day, but held a whopping 100 songs due to firmware limitations imposed by Apple. Oh, and Apple released a little thing called the iPod Nano the same day. Hmm, I wonder which one consumers chose?
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The Fool posted:There was a Sony Ericsson MP3 player phone that came out before the iPhone. The data port, headphone dongle bullshit sucked though
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uli2000 posted:
I may not be remembering this correctly, but I think that this phone was the reason the iPhone was created. The iPad had already been in development, but Steve Jobs hated the Rokr’s interface so badly that he had the engineers working on the iPad switch directions and use that tech to make the original iPhone.
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uli2000 posted:
I remember being at the MacWorld when Jobs announced this phone, and considering everyone was clapping and whooping every time he spoke, the response to this phone was pretty muted.
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empty baggie posted:I may not be remembering this correctly, but I think that this phone was the reason the iPhone was created. The iPad had already been in development, but Steve Jobs hated the Rokr’s interface so badly that he had the engineers working on the iPad switch directions and use that tech to make the original iPhone. I think the Rockr thing was a contractual obligation from an agreement before the iPhone was being worked on. by the time the rockr was announced, apple was already investigating touchscreens and working their way towards a phone. They were researching touchscreen/tablet tech in the early 00s and decided to make a phone with it first instead of a tablet. this decision probably killed any/all enthusiasm for integrating itunes syncing with other phones and devices. in the early days of itunes there were other non-apple mp3 players here-and-there that supported itunes officially and the rockr thing seems like an extension of that, but a little too late
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Last Chance posted:I think the Rockr thing was a contractual obligation from an agreement before the iPhone was being worked on. by the time the rockr was announced, apple was already investigating touchscreens and working their way towards a phone. They were researching touchscreen/tablet tech in the early 00s and decided to make a phone with it first instead of a tablet. Yeah I remember that, there was a window of like a year when you could hook up your Diamond Rio or Creative Nomad to iTunes and it would have a nice custom icon and everything. When the iPod came out one of the lines I remember in the keynote was "iTunes knows all about it, and it knows all about iTunes" and that was a huge deal The ROKR was like 4 years later, I remember the general reaction was "wtf"
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Was it the Pre that had some hacked-together iTunes functionality that was constantly playing Cat and Mouse with Apple? That was a fun year or so.
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FilthyImp posted:Was it the Pre that had some hacked-together iTunes functionality that was constantly playing Cat and Mouse with Apple? That was a fun year or so. Yeah. The Pre was kinda weird, and came out of the gate with a lot of neat ideas that it really just refused to follow up on. But frankly, you gotta remember that "Phone what works with iTunes" was about 80% of the iPhones gimmick at the time, so that was a hard move.
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Neito posted:Yeah. The Pre was kinda weird, and came out of the gate with a lot of neat ideas that it really just refused to follow up on. It also innovated app-switching Cards, which is pretty much what we do now.
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