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Last Chance posted:What The original tweet has a reply of a guy saying "NFTs have value, several have recently sold for 55k." It's money laundering.
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I understand that usage, it's the wild cultists surrounding the corrupt oligarchs that confound me.
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Last Chance posted:What Enn Eff Tee
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Perestroika posted:To make all that even dumber, at the height of the NFT nonsense there were people arguing for making NFTs of/pointing to actual physical things. And not in the halfway reasonable sense of "this would be an alternative way of notarizing transfers of ownership", but rather whatever the gently caress this is: Gonna make an insurance company. And when people make claims about their burned down houses or whatever I am just going to give them an NFT picture of their assets.
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The tweet is 100% accurate, if you buy an NFT of a diamond and the original diamond is destroyed, or sold, or anything else, you do have exactly the same asset as you originally did 
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Dec 20, 2023 21:56
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Well when you think about it matter can't be destroyed. It just takes a different form.
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wesleywillis posted:Well when you think about it matter can't be destroyed. It just takes a different form. Yes ashes and smoke is a form. Not really usable or transformable back into a diamond with current technology, but a form nonetheless.
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The General posted:Gonna make an insurance company. And when people make claims about their burned down houses or whatever I am just going to give them an NFT picture of their assets. This is essentially what insurance companies are already doing. Or is that the joke?
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galagazombie posted:This is essentially what insurance companies are already doing. Or is that the joke? I may be old fashioned, but I thought they typically gave you money, assuming your claim went through?
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In theory but if you make a claim what you are more likely to get is "drat that sucks"
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Yeah at least in the US, insurance companies have gotten so good at dodging claims that many contractors now have their own insurance negotiators to get your insurance to pay out. This is not a cottage industry, to be clear, and is not even slightly the exclusive domain of scammers as some would have you believe. This is just how it works now.
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Dec 21, 2023 07:18
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOMEONE FUNGED A TOKEN?!
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Language, please. Someone gently caressed a token. Police are investigating.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Yeah at least in the US, insurance companies have gotten so good at dodging claims that many contractors now have their own insurance negotiators to get your insurance to pay out. This is not a cottage industry, to be clear, and is not even slightly the exclusive domain of scammers as some would have you believe. This is just how it works now. God bless our beautiful job creators. 
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AlternateAccount posted:WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOMEONE FUNGED A TOKEN?! 
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gently caress your thread title:
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I mean, from, a certain point of view it wasn't false advertising... Weren't those machines bad even when they were first introduced?
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In theory that is a nice idea. Get the fastest current computer every two years for $99. But yeah I don't think any Celeron was ever considered top of the line, so not sure how good they were. And if that company lived long enough to even offer the first two year updates.
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Celerons have varied greatly in quality over the years, from the enthusiast favorite Pentium 2 based Celeron 300A to the absolute dogshit Pentium 4 Netburst based ones (though tbf everything based on netburst was trash). I don't think anyone has ever been able to call a celeron future proof.
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It's not like it needs to be "future-proof" if you're just going to replace it in two years anyway. Those seem like perfectly fine specs for a computer using windows 98, and it's obviously not meant to be running anything terribly complicated anyway. After all, if you knew what you wanted/needed out of a computer, you wouldn't be buying one of those, would you? Also yes I'm pretty sure e-machines existed for more than two years.
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Collateral Damage posted:Celerons have varied greatly in quality over the years, from the enthusiast favorite Pentium 2 based Celeron 300A to the absolute dogshit Pentium 4 Netburst based ones (though tbf everything based on netburst was trash). My memories of netburst was that the higher end performed fine enough, it was just hot and overpriced? I got a 2.8 GHz netburst Xeon and a workstation motherboard as payment for some work I did in 2003, and that was a perfectly good gaming desktop for years. I would never have bought it for my own money, but at "nearly free" it was great. 
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eMachines had an expected lifespan of about 6 months before their weird off spec power supply blew up and they got exchanged for a new machine.
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Wiki says they started in '98, lasted until '04 then got acquired by Gateway & eventually Acer bought Gateway in '07. Wonder if the quality changed at all when Gateway got them, I still kinda miss the cow-print boxes (there was a store near me back then & the whole building was done in the cow-print theme)
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Wiki says they started in '98, lasted until '04 then got acquired by Gateway & eventually Acer bought Gateway in '07. Wonder if the quality changed at all when Gateway got them, I still kinda miss the cow-print boxes (there was a store near me back then & the whole building was done in the cow-print theme) It’s piebald because they’re from the Silicon Prairie
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My first job was tech support at a place that was approximately 95% Macs (would've been 100% if my boss had his way). The four-ish people who determined they JUST HAD TO HAVE Windows computers all got eMachines and they sucked to have to do anything to because they were so slow. Weirdly enough, those were the bullet-proof computer that just would never die, no matter how many sacrifices to eSatan we made.
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Goddamn I miss Gateway. Whatever happened to having an aesthetic? The cow boxes and all that. My first "real" (not a vic20, basically) computer was a Gateway 2000 with a p2 233. I remember going to the gateway store, seeing them show off this computer with a monitor that could switch to portrait mode, and thinking "lol who the gently caress would ever want that?" I miss those cow boxes so much
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BrainDance posted:Goddamn I miss Gateway. Whatever happened to having an aesthetic? The cow boxes and all that. I remember being amazed when I saw an Acer in a computer store that was black. In a world of beige it stood out in the coolest way.
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In the late 90s I did tech support for a local company. Think Geek Squad, but local. And Acers were the worst. I guess they've gotten better, but they were the bane of my existence at the time. That and AOL.
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Celerons are supposed to be a toothbrush for my colon but frankly I find the process quite excruciating.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Celerons are supposed to be a toothbrush for my colon but frankly I find the process quite excruciating. Lol you want to use the cartridge version, not the square ZIF package
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TotalLossBrain posted:Lol you want to use the cartridge version, not the square ZIF package  Now how do I go about extracting the - quite frankly deceptively-named - ZIF packages?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
A big core dump
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
You need the registered version of WinZif
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Rap Game Goku posted:In the late 90s I did tech support for a local company. Think Geek Squad, but local. And Acers were the worst. I guess they've gotten better, but they were the bane of my existence at the time. That and AOL. My experience with Acer laptops have been that they're still kind of cheap - sometimes quite fancy, but never convincingly solid. However they do seem way better that they used to be: 15 years ago I would stop people from buying them, but these days they're good enough. Not my personal choice, but they'll do fine.
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What was really stopping computers in the 90's from being cool colors??
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What was really stopping computers in the 90's from being cool colors?? Not SGI that’s for sure
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What was really stopping computers in the 90's from being cool colors?? Businesses being boring as gently caress and the market for "gaming" PCs not really taking off until the late 90's/mid-00's?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What was really stopping computers in the 90's from being cool colors?? Skip to 2:30 if you're in a hurry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skbgEGEn80
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I seen to remember the Pentium II era celerons were really good value and also generally overclocked with basically no effort to a pretty high clock speed increase. Like Intel was basically clocking the things lower than they probably needed to because the whole point was to take back the low end market from the other manufacturers while still charging for the high end. Edit: the 566mhz in that machine is apparently the generation after that. No idea how that architecture went
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If i am remembering right, my Celeron was like 75bux cheaper than the equivalent I could turn it into by drawing a tiny line on it with a pencil. Just an absurdly good deal. Maybe not so much for the normal buyer, but upping the speed massively was easy fast cheap and pretty safe.
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