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insta posted:Sir do you run a delightfully quirky YouTube channel about how people Connect with Technology If they did it would be much more delightful that the actual channel you are thinking of.
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Feb 13, 2021 19:08
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Star Man posted:Wait, is Techmoan bad now? I believe Technology Connections is being referenced here
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Humphreys posted:If they did it would be much more delightful that the actual channel you are thinking of. Rude!
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Qwijib0 posted:I believe Technology Connections is being referenced here Is he bad now?
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Cojawfee posted:Is he bad now? He's started doing this thing where he stops talking and stares at the camera with a weird look on his face for a second before cutting to something else a lot lately but other than that IDK.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:18
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Cojawfee posted:Is he bad now? I still find him entertaining 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:He's started doing this thing where he stops talking and stares at the camera with a weird look on his face for a second before cutting to something else a lot lately but other than that IDK. That can be annoying but is easily overlooked.
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You Am I posted:Got my Tower of Power 90% working. That's awesome. I have an older Yamaha Natural Sound stack sitting in my garage, receiver + tape deck + multi-CD (cartridge) deck + equalizer. I need to fix the receiver though, no sound out of the left channel... guessing it'll be something easy enough to fix, but just haven't had time. I really love that set, great aesthetic and great sound.
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Mister Kingdom posted:That can be annoying but is easily overlooked. Yeah it's not like I've unsubscribed.
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Star Man posted:Wait, is Techmoan bad now? Techmoan is utterly tasteless.
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Watching Techmoan Man use a stylus to enter MiniDisc titles reminds me: I haven't picked up a Palm device in about 18 years, but I bet I could still write fluidly in Graffiti.
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Code Jockey posted:That's awesome. I have an older Yamaha Natural Sound stack sitting in my garage, receiver + tape deck + multi-CD (cartridge) deck + equalizer. I need to fix the receiver though, no sound out of the left channel... guessing it'll be something easy enough to fix, but just haven't had time. I really love that set, great aesthetic and great sound. Yep, I do like the look and quality of Yamaha's 80s and 90s gear. Kinda on the look out for a AM/FM receiver to go with it to complete it. The only non-Yamaha item will be the record player, as it is my mum's quadraphonic JVC/Nivico from the late 60s.
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doctorfrog posted:Watching Techmoan Man use a stylus to enter MiniDisc titles reminds me: I haven't picked up a Palm device in about 18 years, but I bet I could still write fluidly in Graffiti. k, here's a can, go tag up your local political party office you hate
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doctorfrog posted:Watching Techmoan Man use a stylus to enter MiniDisc titles reminds me: I haven't picked up a Palm device in about 18 years, but I bet I could still write fluidly in Graffiti. 
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https://twitter.com/NanoRaptor/status/1360504094679470081?s=19
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What problem does that solve, exactly? It seems like it would need more engineering than a standard display, in order to ...snag on things easier? E: Ah, OK, I get it now. It's a recession for the headphones: 
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She’s a designer who has an ongoing project of creating “false” Apple nostalgia items. Here’s an article about her work.
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Stink Terios posted:Techmoan is utterly tasteless.  CHIPS!
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Stink Terios posted:Techmoan is utterly tasteless. But my homemade Egg McMuffins!
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Blue Moonlight posted:She’s a designer who has an ongoing project of creating “false” Apple nostalgia items. I smell an upcoming Dankpods collaboration.
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You can’t post Cool Box Art without reposting the best box art of all time: https://twitter.com/coolboxart/status/1188481226505670657?s=21
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I’ve recently come into possession of a bunch of older macs One Power Mac G4 (mid 2003) One Power Mac G4 quicksilver And like a pallet of dual proc g5 Mac pros and some manner of very early Xeon Mac pros A few questions. 1) Can you download and burn installation media for these machines in tyool 2021? Google is surprisingly dodgy on this. All of these need a fresh install of something on them. Most of them have 10.4.x or 10.5.x on them already but I’d like to do a fresh OS install. 2) The Xeon Mac pros don’t have any video cards. I also plugged in a generic Radeon card I had laying around and it didn’t work, so I’m guessing these need some specific Mac version of a video card? Is there a way to make a normal video card work on them? 3) outside of the normal OS that comes on there is there anything interesting they can run? I’m guessing various flavors of Linux for the G4/5 machines and basic windows or Linux for the Xeon machines? Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 01:09 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’ve recently come into possession of a bunch of older macs 1. Yes. Macintoshgarden and macintoshrepository have disk images for download. You might need to use imgburn to get a bootable disk. You can also do it from usb. 2. Afaik, no, but it's not something I'm super knowledgeable about. Google or the Mac games thread in retrogames might know more. 3. The 2003 G4 should be able to natively run OS9 if you have any nostalgia for classic mac os. Also I want it, the one on Craigslist never replied to me. The case on the g5/pros is/was rather desirable for a time too, and makes a decent table leg.
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You can get ISOs of macOS at archive.org, user uploaded bit as close to guaranteed safe as you'll find. The Xeon will run boot camp windows fine, and yeah there are several Linux flavors that ran on PowerPC, not sure if any are still maintained. As for GPUs, yes you need to flash the bios, not all cards have a big enough rom to do it though An ancient thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-golden-guide-to-flashing-graphic-cards.877441/
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’ve recently come into possession of a bunch of older macs It's been years since I had access to a Mac but I did for a while there, and got OpenSUSE up and running on Macs 2008-2009, and I'm pretty sure at least that distro has a PPC port. If memory serves the only thing that didn't work at the time was Flash, and at this point Flash is gone so shouldn't be an issue.
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Macintosh Garden is a great repository of PowerPC/68k software and OSes - http://macintoshgarden.org There is some early Intel stuff there as well
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Old operating systems are also archived at https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems but look up each model on https://everymac.com/systems/apple/index-apple-specs-applespec.html to check what the minimum and maximum version of macOS is If you want something particularly dumb to do with the G5s you can install Morphos and become an amiga weirdo (https://www.morphos-team.net)
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I was hoping i could run BeOS on the oldest G4 but even that’s too new
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r u ready to WALK posted:If you want something particularly dumb to do with the G5s you can install Morphos and become an amiga weirdo (https://www.morphos-team.net) I did not know about this, and having an old G4 in the basement...it intrigues me.
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A few more LDs arrived today.
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Humphreys posted:A few more LDs arrived today. Nice.
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r u ready to WALK posted:Old operating systems are also archived at https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems but look up each model on https://everymac.com/systems/apple/index-apple-specs-applespec.html to check what the minimum and maximum version of macOS is  It's nice that there is now a maintained OS for my dumpster dived G5 imac since Linux dropped support for big endian PPC. Just doesn't seem worth 80 Euros though.
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While a lot of us aren't huge fans of David/8 bit Guy, this news sucks:
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Dingus or no I hate it for the guy. Hopefully they get back to something approaching normal soon. I hope his paper clips are ok.
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You Am I posted:While a lot of us aren't huge fans of David/8 bit Guy, this news sucks: You should always leave the taps running a bit when it gets really cold, especially if you're not home and thus not using them. I guess no-one teaches that to people in Texas? But a FYI just in case one of the five people reading this thread are in the same position!
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Yeah, if he had found his water cutoff valve, turned his water off, and then opened all the faucets before leaving, he wouldn't have had that problem. Most people in Texas probably wouldn't know that, but dallas sees it's fair share of cold winters and he should have known some basics about protecting his pipes.
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Cojawfee posted:Yeah, if he had found his water cutoff valve, turned his water off, and then opened all the faucets before leaving, he wouldn't have had that problem. Most people in Texas probably wouldn't know that, but dallas sees it's fair share of cold winters and he should have known some basics about protecting his pipes. Heck, I know people here in Finland who say they've never heard of such a thing, even though it's in the papers like, every Winter. e: Tech relic: unheated water pipes. (We have them at work and some idiot scratched off the sticker with the big "NOTICE TO FUTURE PLUMBER: THERE'S ELECTRICITY IN THIS HERE PIPE" in one of the toilets.) 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 08:10 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Cojawfee posted:Yeah, if he had found his water cutoff valve, turned his water off, and then opened all the faucets before leaving, he wouldn't have had that problem. Most people in Texas probably wouldn't know that, but dallas sees it's fair share of cold winters and he should have known some basics about protecting his pipes. Do you guys not have public safety advertisements advising on things like this as X season approaches? We get poo poo non-stop during cyclone season and same with bushfire season. All radio stations (including commercial) broadcast what to do, who to tune into and other useful information.
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