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I try to avoid Samsung because they're evil. Last time I mentioned it (though, in the gpu thread so my bad) just in passing I got hit with a wave of "umm, but all companies are bad braindance!" Like people were taking personal offense to me trying to avoid that brand when I can. Which true, but gently caress man just let me avoid a brand that I have a strong personal aversion to. I know I won't be avoiding every tech they make but I do what I can. I don't even know who makes good tvs now though I got on the projector train and there's no going back. Feels like nearly all the disadvantages of a projector are just things that were relevant 5 years ago but are totally not an issue anymore.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 01:58 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 21:23 |
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Reality and history has an anti-American bias
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 02:07 |
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BrainDance posted:Last time I mentioned it (though, in the gpu thread so my bad) just in passing I got hit with a wave of "umm, but all companies are bad braindance!" Like people were taking personal offense to me trying to avoid that brand when I can. Which true, but gently caress man just let me avoid a brand that I have a strong personal aversion to. I know I won't be avoiding every tech they make but I do what I can. No you're right. The point of "no ethical consumption under capitalism" is that any rejection of a particular capitalist is valid even if it means shifting over to a different capitalist anyway It's not supposed to mean "they're all unethical, it doesn't matter"
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 02:09 |
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BrainDance posted:I try to avoid Samsung because they're evil. its still way more annoying to connect up a speaker system to a projector because you want your speakers in the front but the projector is in the back. thats the big issue imo
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 02:11 |
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all of the tvs in china are tcl wall mounts as far as i can tell by which i mean theres this weird metal apparatus on the walls youre supposed to physically hoist them on that needs to be tough because the tvs are heavy and adding any peripherals quickly turns the whole thing into a giant mess of cords china in general seems to be really good at recycling their antique electronics because i havent seen any here except one time at an old time curio style candy shop at a hutong where they were clearly there as a bit they also had what i think was a hacked famicom mini playing a game in chinese most of the retro games here are off of these pandora boxes where you pay about a quarter per credit via qr code of course discovered to my irritation that chinese tvs appear to have leapfrogged the component hd era entirely and only output in av and hdmi so here i am with my pandora style antique playing final fantasy adventure since it can only output in black and white
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 05:13 |
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https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/top.../story/?just_in Remember Natalie Jaresko?
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 05:15 |
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Some Guy TT posted:china in general seems to be really good at recycling their antique electronics because i havent seen any here except one time at an old time curio style candy shop at a hutong where they were clearly there as a bit they also had what i think was a hacked famicom mini playing a game in chinese most of the retro games here are off of these pandora boxes where you pay about a quarter per credit via qr code of course I know a lot about these, and they're really cool. They're (mostly, in China) not hacked famicom minis or even emulators/fpgas at all. There are a bunch of different NES cpu clones that are still made in China. Like if you cracked open a 小霸王 it's not a fpga in there but roughly just an NES. The cpu clones are sometimes not very compatible, sometimes very close, the biggest most obvious difference usually being that they have terrible audio. And then they don't have a list of roms in them either, but a little bit of flash memory soldered in there and on that flash memory is one big multigame rom. I've ripped a few open, some of them are really hard to rip the rom from (not that they usually have much worth preserving but, for the sake of preservation everything must be dumped and some of them are technically unique.)
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 05:26 |
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really want to get down to the hangzhou electronics market before i leave to see if i can find some of their weird old junk if they dont have any stalls with stuff like that i dont have a clue where else to even look for it
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 05:42 |
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the plot of taiwan's greatest film partly involves the dad trying to rip off japanese videogames
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 05:49 |
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Antonymous posted:the plot of taiwan's greatest film partly involves the dad trying to rip off japanese videogames
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 06:01 |
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fart simpson posted:its still way more annoying to connect up a speaker system to a projector because you want your speakers in the front but the projector is in the back. thats the big issue imo That is true yeah. And even if you got space for them you gotta be careful they end up somewhere they won't get whacked by anything. I did a whole specific room for this, turned an extra room into a theater. And it took a lot to get everything good but still sometimes one of cables gets touched and it will make the projector get a little angled. And the smallest difference matters so much it's a pain to redo. But if I didn't have a room specifically for this it would be even more annoying, lot of cables going from the receiver to the speakers. Probably gonna eventually put an area rug down to cover the wires. The thing though that I always hear from people (who play games) is they won't do it cuz of input latency. But you go look at the newer projectors from BenQ, less latency than most tvs. Some Guy TT posted:really want to get down to the hangzhou electronics market before i leave to see if i can find some of their weird old junk if they dont have any stalls with stuff like that i dont have a clue where else to even look for it Yeah that's one of the coolest things about China. For retro console games it's its own thing and I've got some really cool unlicensed stuff, but for actual official console stuff, it's got no Yongsan or Akihabara. But for weird/retro PC stuff its the absolute best. I'm building a retro computer, trying to be the fastest thing actually compatible with Windows 98. Read some stuff and watched some videos and it's full of people being like "this is the best but good luck finding it." Go on Xianyu and a bunch of people in Shenzhen got it all for almost nothing. Or sometimes new but weird hardware is for some reason a whole lot cheaper. Common new hardware is more expensive cuz taxes I guess, but I got a usb3 to fiber and back to usb3 converter, same exact product, for about a fifth the price it was in America. Edit: sorry this is super off topic for the China thread. Just get real pumped about old/weird hardware.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 06:05 |
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??? no its not talking about arcane computer stuff in general is offtopic talking about arcane computer stuff specifically in china is extremely ontopic thats why i brought it up
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 06:10 |
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Antonymous posted:the plot of taiwan's greatest film partly involves the dad trying to rip off japanese videogames What film is that?
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 06:16 |
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Fastest hardware to boot up win98 and crash? What hardware is that?
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 10:15 |
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The China second hand PC hardware market was what got me back into gaming with cheap Intel server-grade CPUs that were so plentiful they made off-brand desktop motherboards for them They've even done stuff like take laptop GPUs and put them into desktop-type PCBs to make more affordable versions
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 10:30 |
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Eminent DNS posted:What film is that? Punkin Spunkin posted:What's it called? It's called "A One and a Two" or actually better known by its chinese name 一一 "Yi Yi" quote:In Yi Yi, life is a constant act of becoming. Wu's daughter (Kelly Lee) struggles with guilt as she considers taking on a friend's discarded boyfriend as her first. Wu's initially morose younger son (Jonathan Chang) comes into his own when he discovers a camera's ability to reveal the world. Meanwhile, Wu struggles with past and future as he reconnects with the first love (Su-Yun Ko) he abandoned 30 years before, while trying to persuade his business partners to ally with a visionary Japanese video-game creator (Issei Ogata). I remember they talk about just ripping it off it has an 8.1 on imdb and won best director at cannes
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:03 |
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i also wanted to get a motherboard for a busted notebook but i dont have the busted notebook on me is that going to be a problem or is just the model number of the notebook and the chinese word for motherboard enough to get me what i want at a price thats not just the price of a brand new notebook
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:05 |
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I do not remember video games being part of Yi Yi at all lmao
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:10 |
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Mantis42 posted:I do not remember video games being part of Yi Yi at all lmao its hard for me to remember but the dad wants to reconnect with his old lover in japan and that's ostensibly why he's there. and his business partner almost dies somehow who is the guy who says why not just steal it, someone in taiwan has probably already done it. and I like to think the guy he's meeting represents Kojima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXTrOuG5sI
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:27 |
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You probably want to get the mobo on taobao. I have brought replacement screens and screens online. Pretty straight forward. These kind of stuff is hard to source in person in the electronic mall.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:29 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:You probably want to get the mobo on taobao. I have brought replacement screens and screens online. Pretty straight forward. These kind of stuff is hard to source in person in the electronic mall. yeah uh you dont know me well so thats really a much much worse idea to the point id be better off not getting a motherboard at all i just spent half an hour trying to fix outlook repeatedly downloading the same file attachment this is kind of why i prefer to use antiques in the first place im pretty sure the internet is out to get me
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:35 |
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Antonymous posted:its hard for me to remember but the dad wants to reconnect with his old lover in japan and that's ostensibly why he's there. and his business partner almost dies somehow who is the guy who says why not just steal it, someone in taiwan has probably already done it. and I like to think the guy he's meeting represents Kojima makes sense. the name of the movie is also a reference to gtav's franklin and his haircut
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 12:06 |
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I don't remember any plot of Yi Yi except it was good. Is there a ranking on the best movies from this director? If you speak Chinese, there is a youtube channel that talks about alot of old Taiwanese PC games from the 90s and early 00s when Taiwan made most of the Chinese language games. Most of them are Wuxia RPG obviously. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:17 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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idk about ranking all their work.but I love terrorizers
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 15:33 |
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people on twitter and itf extrapolating from unreliable crematoria anecdotes and uncritically posting jennifer zeng videos, it's 2020 all over again
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 17:56 |
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R. Guyovich posted:people on twitter and itf extrapolating from unreliable crematoria anecdotes and uncritically posting jennifer zeng videos, it's 2020 all over again yeah. there are enough boners to report on in official China state media, the other stuff is noise.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 17:59 |
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wow I can't believe 500,000 Chinese people died of the novel coronavirus yesterday
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 18:00 |
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my favorite 2020 hysteria was billions of chinese people dead because they stopped buying data. On their Cellphones. Because of a lockdown.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 18:05 |
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lol http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/09/WS6392fa9ba31057c47eba3a43.htmlquote:Jia Zhongwu, an official from the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at a news conference on Friday that traditional Chinese medicine is an indispensable and irreplaceable part of the "Chinese plan" for the epidemic prevention and control. “TCM is for when we think it doesn’t really matter”
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mawarannahr posted:lol http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/09/WS6392fa9ba31057c47eba3a43.html lol. yeah for asymptomatic sickness I mostly use an AoE healing spell and it works great but if I get a headache I take a Tylenol too
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 18:12 |
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Some Guy TT posted:i also wanted to get a motherboard for a busted notebook but i dont have the busted notebook on me is that going to be a problem or is just the model number of the notebook and the chinese word for motherboard enough to get me what i want at a price thats not just the price of a brand new notebook my experience of buying a replacement laptop mobo on Alibaba was that you’ll need the motherboard model number at least
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 18:46 |
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In Training posted:idk about ranking all their work.but I love terrorizers terrorizers is a prototype inñaritu film
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 19:46 |
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How many clowns are in that one?
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 20:25 |
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https://twitter.com/Yurobeat_/status/1605885584777416705
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 21:44 |
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some stuff about china's housing market from a dec 12 michael hudson Q&A: https://michael-hudson.com/2022/12/china-the-change-agent-patreon-qa-3/ quote:Michael Hudson: The idea of making fortunes by borrowing money to bid up real estate prices for debt-financed land value gains, is not really a way to get rich. Just by inflating the counters of what a house or an office building or a home is worth by going into debt is the Western way to get rich and also, to impoverish the economy. And Xi is not doing that. He didn’t specifically talk about real estate and the financial problems that are occurring there but he made it clear that he’s going to end the whole idea of the government providing credit simply to increase the price of real capital investment, housing, factories, plant and equipment that are – he’s more concerned with economic reality than the financial image of this reality that is inflated by prices. He didn’t quite say it that way but we still have a few days for him to spell out everything. president xi my people plead for housing controls
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https://twitter.com/JMSDF_21aw/status/1605835537738215430
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https://twitter.com/Yurobeat_/status/1605885584777416705?t=GkXj_FN1s8GJ2eIbEbSm3Q&s=19
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I don't know wtf am I looking at but Congratulation.gif
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close enough
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Truga posted:
if by close you mean that plane exactly down to the tail number
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