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I still have the Zelda one. It stopped working decades ago but I’ve managed to hang onto it.
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Nov 11, 2022 03:34
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imagine asking your parents for zelda + nintendo and getting that watch lol.
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Nov 11, 2022 04:15
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 gently caress Windstream. e. I'm paying half of a >$100 phone bill for 6mbps service plus a landline. When I contact customer service, I get a shrug and "speeds not guaranteed" boilerplate. I have no other options. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 06:15 on Nov 11, 2022 |
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Nov 11, 2022 06:10
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rndmnmbr posted:
Same, but also my connection drops for about 30 seconds once every few minutes from 8:30-11:00 AM. They just tell me to test the wiring in my house. My wiring goes bad and then fixes itself at the same times every day? The real kick in the balls is that I'm about 100 yards from being able to get 5G home internet. I still have some of the later Nintendo watches, Mario World and Star Fox.
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Nov 11, 2022 06:30
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Dip Viscous posted:Same, but also my connection drops for about 30 seconds once every few minutes from 8:30-11:00 AM. They just tell me to test the wiring in my house. My wiring goes bad and then fixes itself at the same times every day? The real kick in the balls is that I'm about 100 yards from being able to get 5G home internet. Oh my god I'm not alone anymore. Same, except my connection chooses to flake out 9p-1a. And I would be eligible for 25mbit fixed-base wireless if it wasn't for the wall of massive trees on my neighbor's property blocking LOS with the tower.
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Nov 11, 2022 06:39
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Argh, I'm sorry you two have to deal with that. The ISP I worked for did the whole wireless broadband thing, and some of our older towers were LOS and poo poo like the neighbor parking their RV in their driveway could knock some of our people offline. Even working there I paid for my own DSL because it was faster than what I could get through work. 1.5mbps/256k was about the best our service could manage, as I recall.
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Nov 11, 2022 08:06
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I had an ISP from around the dawn of cable internet once tell me there was no way the cable modem they supplied me could be overheating, because there is nothing inside their cable modem that gets hot. Thermodynamics aside, I felt like the fact it was getting hot enough to hurt if you touched it and would only stay connected if I ran a little desk fan next to it said otherwise but it still took two hard argued for engineer visits to agree.
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Nov 11, 2022 08:46
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It doesn't really bother me - at least my upstream doubled in the last year. It rarely comes into play for me, aside from being faster on those rare occasions I'm uploading pictures or, even more rarely, video. In most of my town if you want actual broadband you're stuck with Xfinity, but the service has been good for me and getting a little better year over year. Where I live, there's a concert venue that's had a few name changes, but Comcast bought the rights and it used to be called the Comcast Center, now it's the Xfinity Center, but everyone still calls it Great Woods.
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Neito posted:Where I live, there's a concert venue that's had a few name changes, but Comcast bought the rights and it used to be called the Comcast Center, now it's the Xfinity Center, but everyone still calls it Great Woods. I grew up down the street from there! And yeah, it's always gonna be Great Woods.
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Nov 11, 2022 18:02
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 Verizon isn't cheap and they can be absolute hell to work with, but at least you get what you're paying for.
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Nov 11, 2022 18:21
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LifeSunDeath posted:imagine asking your parents for zelda + nintendo and getting that watch lol. I got the tetris one and it was great. I still have it
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Nov 11, 2022 18:25
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George RR Fartin posted:I grew up down the street from there! And yeah, it's always gonna be Great Woods. I think the only name that kinda stuck was Tweeter Center back when Tweeter (a local bespoke stereo system company) owned the rights. I'm pretty sure we all went back to Great Woods just to spite Comcast. Of course, this is part of the Grand Massachusetts Tradition of Ignoring Name Changes, dating back to the 95/128 debacle.
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Nov 11, 2022 19:00
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Sonic Internet is the bomb. Best customer service I've ever had. No complaints ever.
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Nov 11, 2022 19:11
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This is a really cool video of stuff I used to fantasize breaking into for 'hacker' reasons when i was a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_u8x8V4YYs
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Nov 12, 2022 17:17
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Humphreys posted:This is a really cool video of stuff I used to fantasize breaking into for 'hacker' reasons when i was a kid: this room is rad: 
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Nov 12, 2022 17:31
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LifeSunDeath posted:this room is rad: Great pole fan cooling solution
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Nov 12, 2022 17:37
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History Comes Inside! posted:I had an ISP from around the dawn of cable internet once tell me there was no way the cable modem they supplied me could be overheating, because there is nothing inside their cable modem that gets hot. Lancity? 
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Nov 13, 2022 06:17
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Humphreys posted:This is a really cool video of stuff I used to fantasize breaking into for 'hacker' reasons when i was a kid: these gatesair boxes just stop sending audio if you so much as look at them wrong and I am very sorry for the station still using it. 
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Nov 13, 2022 06:31
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On your mark Get set We’re riding on the Internet Cyberspace Set free Hello virtual reality Interactive appetite Searching for a website A window to the world And to get online Take a spin and you're in with the techno set You're going surfing on the internet https://twitter.com/Todd_Spence/status/1591225142784708609
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Nov 13, 2022 07:27
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Gonz posted:On your mark Don't dox my e-girlfriend from 25 years ago.
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Nov 13, 2022 07:44
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Gonz posted:I had the Mario one.  One time I pulled one of buttons off because I was a dumb kid. All 4 of the buttons were one piece, so my dad saw right through my bullshit that I caught it on a wall.
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Nov 14, 2022 20:55
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First of May posted:Don't dox my e-girlfriend from 25 years ago. wtf she told me she was single
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Nov 14, 2022 21:01
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Desperate for a return to the grey background/blue hyperlink/Times New Roman internet.
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Nov 16, 2022 01:15
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Whaaaaaat is this weird add-on thing on this Mac?
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They’re usually called monitors OP.
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Nov 16, 2022 02:55
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Whaaaaaat is this weird add-on thing on this Mac? It's a Kensington System Saver, a fan that sits on your mac, and also have power dongles to let you easily power on your system from the front 
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Nov 16, 2022 03:03
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Fan modding anno 1985
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There’s one called a Fanny Mac. Up until the mac SE in 87 macs didn’t have fans and overheating was a real problem so these tried to fill that gap. https://twitter.com/foone/status/1236514605930704896?s=46&t=4KNQs6VdzEuPAxsCgXsYuw GutBomb has a new favorite as of 05:39 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Nov 16, 2022 05:35
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We had a fan specifically for our C64's floppy drive.
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Computer viking posted:The Norwegian national telco pushed ISDN for everyone back in 90s, so that's what we got for our first internet connection. We used it a fair bit, so it was nice to have separate lines for phone and Internet- and I could sneak in some hours of using both lines if I wanted to download something. Exactly this. It’s why I budgeted for a single line to be connected 24/7 and bonding as needed for important downloads  Think it was around 2500 NOK/mo. for that single line.
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Nov 16, 2022 10:14
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That's something like $430/month, with inflation from 1996 and today's exchange rate - not cheap, but given the alternatives at the time ...
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Nov 16, 2022 11:58
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CaptainSarcastic posted:We had a fan specifically for our C64's floppy drive. did this improve load times
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Code Jockey posted:did this improve load times I'm not sure it did anything at all, really.
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Nov 16, 2022 20:50
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Documenting some of the floppies in the box I grabbed last time I was home visiting family.   I need to find my USB floppy drive so I can back these up. Album of most of 'em: https://imgur.com/a/bDCXgXE
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Nov 16, 2022 21:10
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I made an arduino Amiga floppy reader thing and was successful restoring a backup from floppies from 1989. Found a bunch of bbs logs like code:
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Kazy posted:Documenting some of the floppies in the box I grabbed last time I was home visiting family.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKNo4Q3VXE
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 MattO posted:I made an arduino Amiga floppy reader thing and was successful restoring a backup from floppies from 1989.
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The runway lighting system for Essendon Airport in Melbourne is built around two old HP workstations running Windows XP. Ask me how I know this.
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