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Trabant posted:What exactly is obsolete or failed in that pic? Y'all post for pages and pages about boring Trinitrons and I can't post a beautiful green ogre? Will these fit your demands then? A Pre-9/11 3Com Audrey named after Audrey Hepburn for some reason that was discontinued within a year, running QNX!  Quadraphonic vinyl records! I gave up on this after replacing the power transistors and I've regretted the decision since! 
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Crap I just noticed the tiny little Shrek face. In my mind's eye, I can see a youthful William Shatner asking it whether it's safe to leave town yet, and waiting, filled with anxiety, for a straight answer.
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Mar 24, 2021 21:12
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'twas a joke! I was saying that the monitor is neither obsolete nor failed!
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Mar 24, 2021 21:16
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R.L. Stine posted:Quadraphonic vinyl records! I gave up on this after replacing the power transistors and I've regretted the decision since! That's purdy
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Mar 24, 2021 21:31
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Trabant posted:'twas a joke! I was saying that the monitor is neither obsolete nor failed! In fact, we failed it by not producing more.
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Mar 24, 2021 21:33
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Trabant posted:What exactly is obsolete or failed in that pic? You can have my corded mouse when you pry it from my cold dead mousepad!
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Mar 24, 2021 21:44
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Weren't Audreys being sold as the home/kitchen hub for use with recipes (it's always recipes) and browsing?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Weren't Audreys being sold as the home/kitchen hub for use with recipes (it's always recipes) and browsing? There was a trend for about 10 minutes of "netpliances" for that yeah. Where you wouldn't want/need a full computer. People were trying to make tablet computing a thing for a long time before the iPad.
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R.L. Stine posted:Y'all post for pages and pages about boring Trinitrons and I can't post a beautiful green ogre? Will these fit your demands then? VNC is cheating! It reminds me a bit of the Phillips IS-2630, a failed "screen phone" developed by Phillips+Lucent in the late 90s. It's hard to find any good contemporary pictures, but they ran Bell Labs' Inferno operating system. It wasn't for video calls, the screen was so you could have a nice contacts list and other utilities. When the project got canned, somebody acquired a bunch of them for cheap and resold them as Linux development toys, back in a time when ARM was kind of exotic. Here's a picture from an ebay auction, note that the coiled cable you see below the keyboard is for the (missing) handset--the keyboard was infrared.  Arsenic Lupin posted:Weren't Audreys being sold as the home/kitchen hub for use with recipes (it's always recipes) and browsing? Proposal: We'll make purpose-built kitchen computers to make managing recipes more convenient! Reality: A cheap hardbound notebook or a box of index cards works better than any existing software recipe managers
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Mar 24, 2021 21:57
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Pham Nuwen posted:VNC is cheating! that's one hell of a fax machine
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Mar 24, 2021 21:59
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LifeSunDeath posted:that's one hell of a fax machine Can't see any indication that it did faxes, but it did apparently have a modem built-in, and a web browser and email client were included.
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Pham Nuwen posted:VNC is cheating! I think about .02% of websites still display correctly (or at all) on Voyager, and SA surprisingly isn't one of them. I couldn't be bothered to fool around in the OS but apparently this thing became quite popular in the hackaday kinda scene. I also tried playing Ninja Gaiden on it, and it worked about as well as you'd think. Maybe the world is ready for the Google Hepburn Home now in 2021.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Proposal: We'll make purpose-built kitchen computers to make managing recipes more convenient!
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Pham Nuwen posted:Can't see any indication that it did faxes, but it did apparently have a modem built-in, and a web browser and email client were included. If it had a modem it almost definitely did faxing. Digitally, that is, rather than actually churning out thermal paper prints.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:the Paprika app, which strips out all the stories and advice and gives you a well-formatted recipe you can take into the kitchen. But how else will I know the connection between maple shortbread bars and the 9/11 attacks?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Weren't Audreys being sold as the home/kitchen hub for use with recipes (it's always recipes) and browsing? Oprah promoted the hell out of it during an episode of her show. I think it was also being promoted as a hub for the technologically-impaired. Why that memory has suddenly emerged after all these years, I have no idea.
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Another month...more LDs on the brown couch. The first movie I bought on DVD. I still absolutely love this film and am adamant it is a documentary not fictional (same as Idiocracy)  Random shock movie to go in the stack with Cannibal Holocaust  NSFW for titties on the back of the sleeve. https://i.imgur.com/J3FEC9q.jpg I really dig the alternate Japanese cover art to Johnny. This was the main purchase to slowly get to the end of a silly collection of techy movies from 1995 that for better (Ghost in the Shell, Hackers) or worse (The Net, Virtuosity) represented some form of 'Cyberpunk'.  Really did enjoy Species when it first came out. Unknown actress did a lot of special effects work like a champ. It's also an AC-3 release so great audio.  Why not the lovely sequel too 
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I'm painfully reminded that Shrek is old enough that CRTs were still a thing when it was made.
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm painfully reminded that Shrek is old enough that CRTs were still a thing when it was made. It's score years old.
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Dick Trauma posted:Throw your old synths away and build yourself a Space Bass like Constance Demby ( Getting some pretty awesome "Alien" vibes here.
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). Earth-shaking otherworldly sounds in the comfort of your living room...
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Trabant posted:But how else will I know the connection between maple shortbread bars and the 9/11 attacks? Serious answer is there's a "description" field for storing that kind of thing.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:18
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Paprika is worth spending money on. Excellent app.
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But how can I maintain my perfectly waxed mustache when I must consume endless cups of hot tea?  https://twitter.com/wikivictorian/status/1375088027626782727?s=20 https://twitter.com/wikivictorian/status/1375088284670517249?s=20 https://twitter.com/wikivictorian/status/1375088484386488332?s=20
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Dick Trauma posted:But how can I maintain my perfectly waxed mustache when I must consume endless cups of hot tea? You may know them as sippy cups now.
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Mar 25, 2021 18:09
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I guess no one was left handed then.
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Mar 25, 2021 18:10
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Cojawfee posted:left handed "He's been touched by the devil!"
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Cojawfee posted:I guess no one was left handed then. Usually that was beaten out of you (often literally) in childhood.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Usually that was beaten out of you (often literally) in childhood. This still happened in the south, probably until the 80's
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Iron Crowned posted:This still happened in the south, probably until the 80's Midwest too? I have a coworker born in the 80s Illinois who was forced to be right handed. Meanwhile I grew up in the 90s in Ohio but my left handedness was accepted. When she told me her childhood I was stunned
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Midwest too? I have a coworker born in the 80s Illinois who was forced to be right handed. Meanwhile I grew up in the 90s in Ohio but my left handedness was accepted. When she told me her childhood I was stunned Happened to me. Born in the early 70s. Dad from the midwest forced me to be right handed. No beatings (he’s a good Dad), but he took things out of my left hand and put them in my right until I started doing it naturally. His argument to my Mom was that the world was built for right-handed people and my life would be easier. He had a point, my life was easier as a righty, especially when I was young. There was not a lot of accommodation for lefties back then. I remember left handed schoolmates struggling with stuff and was glad I didn’t have to deal with that. I don’t agree with forcing handedness, but I don’t resent my Dad or anything.
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My older brother was vaguely ambidextrous until the school system (California, 90s), or I guess some specific teacher, insisted that he be either right- or left-handed. Apparently they accepted left-handedness but not his ambivalence. He started writing solely with his right hand so they'd stop complaining. He can still with his left hand, he tells me, it's just that he never got any better at forming letters with it since he stopped practicing with it. (In what must've been like 6th grade?)
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Baseball parents do the opposite today and train their sons to be left-handed or ambidextrous to give them an edge in Little League.
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Dick Trauma posted:But how can I maintain my perfectly waxed mustache when I must consume endless cups of hot tea? Back when men were men! 
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When men were men OH NO! My mustache got all melty welty during my tea party, I need my special mustache boy cup!
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When the gently caress are we bringing back the hose & codpiece combo anyway? Fashion is cyclical, and I think we've spent enough time on the whole "trousers" thing.
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Konstantin posted:Baseball parents do the opposite today and train their sons to be left-handed or ambidextrous to give them an edge in Little League. I had a friend who wrote left handed, but played all sports right handed because that's what all of his older brothers hand me down stuff like baseball glove, golf clubs, street hockey sticks... Etc were right handed
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Iron Crowned posted:This still happened in the south, probably until the 80's My step-mom forced one of my little brothers to be right-handed. She's not a great person
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Pham Nuwen posted:When the gently caress are we bringing back the hose & codpiece combo anyway? Fashion is cyclical, and I think we've spent enough time on the whole "trousers" thing. You could probably get close in spirit with really tall socks and some leather underwear (spikes optional) - but yeah, cycling back to putting on your legs one pant at the time would almost make sense.
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I let my beard get too long on occasion, and I can say with certainty that mustaches are bad, useless, smell bad, tickle your nose when you're trying to sleep, and just generally suck.
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