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Too bad Dick these days has become anti-immigration by using overpopulation as a smoke screen
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https://twitter.com/beta_collector/status/1501618247564767238?s=20&t=Yx7B4tvsqaFNuSfEdAdy8g
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I hope that person dumps it instead of sitting on it for clout
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He's put stuff up on archive.org before: https://archive.org/details/@betacollector p sure in this milieu that sitting on it would bring the opposite of clout
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Mar 9, 2022 21:06
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Hello, I've made a terrible financial decision.
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Cojawfee posted:Hello, I've made a terrible financial decision.  Sending techmoan a freebie must surely be one of the most cost-effective marketing campaigns there is
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an actual frog posted:
Yes. I would also recommend having at least one photo of it assembled in your listing. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:00 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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Mar 10, 2022 08:41
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I love 80s/90s maximalism. All the pointless words.  That paragraph next to the power button reads "new class A" CIRCUITRY WITH SYNCHRO BIAS ELIMINATES SWITCHING AND CROSSOVER DISTORTION ENABLES HIGH POWER AND EXCELLENT WAVEFORM FIDELITY
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Horace posted:I love 80s/90s maximalism. All the pointless words. I think I had that component system as a Winamp skin
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RIP early 2000s skeuomorphic interface design.
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Bargearse posted:RIP early 2000s skeuomorphic interface design. Die in a pretend-materials-appropriate fire, you goddamn abstract concept.
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Humphreys posted:I think I had that component system as a Winamp skin I don't think I ever truly understood Winamp skins before.
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Remulak posted:Die in a pretend-materials-appropriate fire, you goddamn abstract concept. The "pretend 1990s HIFI" was still miles better than the "pretend brushed aluminum everywhere" that came after. gently caress you, Steve Jobs.
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I still say that someday all the buttons and knobs will come back because style is cyclical and I just pray I'm still alive for it. I want every button every knob I want a media playing device with at least 30 different switches and displays and all that stuff.
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Mar 13, 2022 08:16
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I miss that period of time when everything on computers looked like it was made of crystals
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I don't miss everything being piano black.
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I do miss whatever the hell this was: There was a point when stuff like this was not only allowed but encouraged.
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Mar 13, 2022 14:48
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All those hours spent downloading visual equalizers, including crazy poo poo like dancing 3d people and poo poo, for absolutely no reason.
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Mar 13, 2022 15:26
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Before everyone just used milkdrop for winamp visualization, there was the dancing coke can plugin.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I still say that someday all the buttons and knobs will come back because style is cyclical and I just pray I'm still alive for it. I'm sure it will come back. Look how drop shadows and gradients have started creeping back in after years of ultra-minimalist UI design. My favourite bit of classic iOS design is the version (iOS6?) which used the accelerometer so the light was accurately reflecting off the spun aluminium volume slider as you moved your phone.
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Vavrek posted:I don't think I ever truly understood Winamp skins before. Look at this tower of power. From the days when playing one song from a CD involved more button presses than a pilot starting a commercial airliner. 
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Horace posted:Look at this tower of power. From the days when playing one song from a CD involved more button presses than a pilot starting a commercial airliner. so many homes used to have stereo cabinets  always with the glass door you would click in then it would pop open.
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You'd click them because they used tiny magnets and moving them slightly would take the door outside the weak magnetic field.
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i still have an old sony stereo tower, although i don't use it anymore. something i used to find cool about it is that it had this big volume knob on the unit, and if you used the remote instead to adjust the volume, the knob would turn by itself to match the new settings
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I miss pixel-sharp interfaces and icons, so sharp you could cut a finger on 'em. Mac OS 8 Copland, bb4win, pixel fonts, all that stuff that had to die because everything got all soft and round and decadent and scalable to high resolutions. e: I know blackbox for windows is still (maybe?) limping along, but I just never got around to fiddling with it in Windows 10.
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Shibawanko posted:i still have an old sony stereo tower, although i don't use it anymore. something i used to find cool about it is that it had this big volume knob on the unit, and if you used the remote instead to adjust the volume, the knob would turn by itself to match the new settings  Now that's some excessive attention to detail.
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My old Pioneer amp did that too, it was the only cool thing about it.
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Shibawanko posted:i still have an old sony stereo tower, although i don't use it anymore. something i used to find cool about it is that it had this big volume knob on the unit, and if you used the remote instead to adjust the volume, the knob would turn by itself to match the new settings motorized knobs and sliders are so cool. 
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Kwyndig posted:You'd click them because they used tiny magnets and moving them slightly would take the door outside the weak magnetic field. The magnets were in the click part and were always stuck to the metal tabs of the glass door. What opened the door was the spring action moving the door fast enough that the magnet couldn't hold on anymore. If you clicked it open and held the door there, it would remain stuck to the magnets but just be slightly more open than it was before. I spent way too much time as a kid messing with the doors.
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LifeSunDeath posted:so many homes used to have stereo cabinets my folks still have one of these and we use it occasionally! works great, it's a kenwood
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Cojawfee posted:The magnets were in the click part and were always stuck to the metal tabs of the glass door. What opened the door was the spring action moving the door fast enough that the magnet couldn't hold on anymore. If you clicked it open and held the door there, it would remain stuck to the magnets but just be slightly more open than it was before. I spent way too much time as a kid messing with the doors. Yeah, sounds like Kwyndig never closed one of those glass doors we know.
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Horace posted:Look at this tower of power. From the days when playing one song from a CD involved more button presses than a pilot starting a commercial airliner. Huh. So 1's a record player, 3's a CD player, 6 is a tape deck. 4 looks like it's an amp, and I guess 5 is a hardware EQ unit, but what's 2? Picture's low res enough that I can't read anything I don't already recognize. Through to ... maybe 2004 or 2005, my dad's amp for the home theater setup was the same amp/tuner (I think it was an AM/FM radio) he'd bought new in the 70s. Gorgeous thing, brushed aluminum front, all fine needles and sharp-printed lettering. Stood out alongside the late 90s / early 00s VCR, CD player, cassette player, DVD player. I wonder if he still has it somewhere. I forget if it was replaced because it started to fail or if it just wasn't compatible with some new thing.
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Vavrek posted:Huh. So 1's a record player, 3's a CD player, 6 is a tape deck. 4 looks like it's an amp, and I guess 5 is a hardware EQ unit, but what's 2? Picture's low res enough that I can't read anything I don't already recognize. It's a radio tuner.
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Vavrek posted:Huh. So 1's a record player, 3's a CD player, 6 is a tape deck. 4 looks like it's an amp, and I guess 5 is a hardware EQ unit, but what's 2? Picture's low res enough that I can't read anything I don't already recognize.. AM/FM?
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Ahh, that makes sense. Like I said, I was used to that being integrated into the amp, so I don't think about them as their own devices after... some threshold year, not sure when.
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Nocheez posted:All those hours spent downloading visual equalizers, including crazy poo poo like dancing 3d people and poo poo, for absolutely no reason. Oh I can think of two big reasons for downloading that dancing lady!
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Also, the history of providing something neat to look at while listening to music is older than computers - the path from a fireworks concert to milkdrop is not that long. (And if you include choreographed dancing as a "neat thing to look at" it goes way back.)
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Computer viking posted:Also, the history of providing something neat to look at while listening to music is older than computers - the path from a fireworks concert to milkdrop is not that long. (And if you include choreographed dancing as a "neat thing to look at" it goes way back.) Yeah, I remember when planetariums had those laser shows that always seemed to be set to Dark Side Of The Moon for all the stoners to oooh and ahhh over.
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I mentioned in Discord how I was getting into MiniDisc, and turns out the friend who is a couple of houses down from me had this beauty. Battery is long since dead but it's in very nice condition. He offered to give it to me but it's much too nice for me to keep for free, so I'm going to return it after my player arrives from Buyee.
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A challenger appears.
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