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Beve Stuscemi posted:Well, I haven’t gotten around to washing this PC yet but I did discover that it does not in fact have a 386 as the case badge implies, but it has a 486 DX4 100mhz, which is the fastest, most powerful 486 that intel ever made iComp extended far enough into the p2/3 range to roughly guestimate 6 iComp points are worth one geekbench point. An i9-13900 at 2.4ghz base clock would have an icomp score of 397,986.
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It’s wild that the benchmark is printed right on the chip. Can you imagine said i9-13whateverK coming with that emblazoned on the heat spreader? Weird times. It’s also wild to consider that the top of the line of any chip could run without a heatsink
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Beve Stuscemi posted:It’s wild that the benchmark is printed right on the chip. Can you imagine said i9-13whateverK coming with that emblazoned on the heat spreader? It's an Intel-specific benchmark rather than any sort of third-party evaluation, so it was just their word on how to rank their CPUs in terms of net performance in the 386-PIII era.
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Revision demo party was again last weekend and the most interesting prod was this demo for the Arkanoid arcade cabinet. They reverse engineered the board and wrote new ROM chips for it. And also wrote a crack and a trainer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDNFkfxhOGo
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Humphreys posted:Wow this channel is a litteral blast from the past and wondering if we knew each other in various comminuties, heck I'm 100% some info he got from reading my .txts. my god. seeing the guy run tppatch shook loose some very old memories
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Beve Stuscemi posted:It’s wild that the benchmark is printed right on the chip. Can you imagine said i9-13whateverK coming with that emblazoned on the heat spreader? The dx4 absolutely needed a heatsink. Amd even printed.on their silkscreen that it was required.
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Saw a Got Milk?-branded DVD player at the Goodwill today.  
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Depending on the company you keep that ad campaign may have aged poorly or terrifically. 
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c0burn posted:The dx4 absolutely needed a heatsink. Amd even printed.on their silkscreen that it was required. Well thats good to know, because I was gonna fire it up without one once I got it cleaned up
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I was at my local Amiga meet yesterday and one of the members had done reprints of old Amiga ads on glossy A3 paper and as well as some of the stickers. I grabbed these two posters as they are the models of Amiga that I own.  
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drat, Roadkill was such a blast to play.
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Just remembered this one: AND SO THE WINNER'S SEXUAL ORGANS GROW! (could also be read as "and so the winner's equipment grows" but... no-one would say that). e: Speaking of nostalgia, the dude who decided to put that lovely WRONG joystick here should be slapped: 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just remembered this one: That does have many familiar things. Of course the yellow Donald Duck binders, but also that "Suuret löytöretket" ("Great Expeditions") book that everyone apparently had. And the scrooge piggy bank. I would have liked a Hakki Hamsteri or Jeans Club reference. And Myrkky magazine.
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Ha, I had that cassette carousel. I think most of my Donald binders were red, though? E: apparently they changed to red ones in 1992 [at least in Norway]. Huh. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 12:47 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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There's a few other Bad Anacronisms in the picture, apart from the poo poo joystick. e: I'm looking at that lamp and thinking "is that my brother's old lamp?" and, of course, it could be. I'll try to dig up some old photos to see if the stickers match.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:There's a few other Bad Anacronisms in the picture, apart from the poo poo joystick. Yeah. That photo is more a general 80s/90s nostalgia mix instead of a single point in time.
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The top right book...Shelf? Nook? Also contains, among others, Asimov's Naked Sun, Clarke's Childhood's End and Bradbury's Illustrated Man. And a bunch of books which I'm assuming are popular space science stuff. This is a good nostalgia image 
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I don't like posting a lot of the same youtuber in a row but THIS is really fucken interesting. A. Cos its a VAIO and B. CPU that emulated x86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6xbDiDuFU0
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Since I watched those couple of old phone hacking videos of theirs, Youtube has been recommending a bunch of stuff from them and I cant say I'm mad about it
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Humphreys posted:I don't like posting a lot of the same youtuber in a row but THIS is really fucken interesting. Cathode Ray Dude made a video about another Sony device with that CPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-BRBmv34k
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These are awesome.
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Humphreys posted:A. Cos its a VAIO and B. CPU that emulated x86
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Humphreys posted:I don't like posting a lot of the same youtuber in a row but THIS is really fucken interesting. Two notes: One, excellent use of the windows xp welcome music, a+ Two, I have a compaq tablet with that cpu and it was also neat at the time Edit: this fella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_tc1000 Qwijib0 has a new favorite as of 05:44 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Since I watched those couple of old phone hacking videos of theirs, Youtube has been recommending a bunch of stuff from them and I cant say I'm mad about it I just keep watching them!!! Then I realise I'm watchign 3 year old videos, but the video quality is really up there.
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This just came up on SAD, and will be a cross post in several threads of pyf. If you have items that are on imgur you want to keep, now would be a good time. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1648883351233896448 It seems like imgur may become a tech relic
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The Saddest Rhino posted:This just came up on SAD, and will be a cross post in several threads of pyf. If you have items that are on imgur you want to keep, now would be a good time. Who could have foreseen that this image host would do the same thing every image host eventually does? signed, a guy who uses imgur in his posts all the time
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The Saddest Rhino posted:This just came up on SAD, and will be a cross post in several threads of pyf. If you have items that are on imgur you want to keep, now would be a good time. Hmm. I have a bunch of images that are in my imgur that would actually be sad to lose. Guess I need to do some downloading.
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History Comes Inside! posted:If they’re in “your” Imgur then I’d assume that means they’re tied to an account and so they’d be safe given the criteria set out? Oh right. I read that badly.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:This just came up on SAD, and will be a cross post in several threads of pyf. If you have items that are on imgur you want to keep, now would be a good time. Most people don't use Imgur to store porn but thanks I guess.
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Good time to share the birth of imgur. It was a great service before it got delusions of grandeur and tried to be its own social platform. https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Most people don't use Imgur to store porn but thanks I guess. I thought they'd purged it already glad this at least doesn't affect stuff I put in through my account which I guess is anything I'd care about, but poo poo that sucks
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My understanding was that right up until now you could upload the most depraved poo poo imaginable as long as it wasn't tied to an account/shared to "the community". Sucks for the forums and anywhere else people have ever posted images. I'm at least enough of a packrat that I still have everything I've made and every image I've found interesting saved locally, but at this point the directory is a giant gently caress-it-bucket of hundreds of thousands of files. At least it's something.
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The idea of a free image hosting service for the entire internet is already a tech relic that was only possible in the first place because of immense amount of loose cash sloshing around in the web economy. That well has finally dried up and the effect can also be seen in how Meta and Twitter are scrambling for some kind of actual income structure that is not completely tied to venture capitalism or the whims of corporate advertisers. On the other hand it means that old forums threads might turn unreadable, on the other hand gigatons of all kinds of random poo poo that was posted anonymously will be wiped out from circulation, so I'm not too negative about the whole thing. Embrace the transience of all things and all that.
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I don't see anywhere they can really go with it, I mean the moment they bring in hosting fees everyone will drop it like a hot potato and I doubt anyone is gonna tolerate having ads stuck to their images.
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coldpudding posted:I don't see anywhere they can really go with it, I mean the moment they bring in hosting fees everyone will drop it like a hot potato and I doubt anyone is gonna tolerate having ads stuck to their images. They've already done it twice.
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Some people enjoy repeating their mistakes, go figure. I'll bet they'll come back crawling.
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I agree that this is a dumb move, but they really should just disallow uploading without an account. Purging everything not related to an account seems like they're band-aiding the real problem, or at least the problem as they describe it. No more imgur without an account is a much easier pill to swallow
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Yeah like... this is loving garbage bullshit, though if not for the fact that I manage a big yearly picture-heavy convention thread I admit I would mostly be like "welp another traitor to the Internet, no surprise there" and move on
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Someone really needs to make a distributed bittorrent-like thing where we all run our waffleimgur client and every time the page requests an image from it, it goes and grabs it from the distributed network.
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