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Strangelet Wave posted:one girl in my class with 1-1/2” acrylics could expertly use every single device on campus except 1) the disc sander and 2) the parking meter, which was one of the ones that required you to fully insert your credit card lengthwise into a recessed slot its a skill you definitely wonder if it needed to be honed
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Carthag Tuek posted:this is really cool Ours it slightly different looking but works exactly the same! It does a solidly consistent job and has for ages, to the point I'm not sure how I even got it (as a gift?), and the little metal plate is discolored but it still soldiers on making a half dozen eggs loudly Zamujasa posted:probably the same way rice cookers detect when the rice is "done"; water boiling off keeps it from heating up past a certain point, once the water's gone there's nothing stopping it so brrrrrrrrrr That's really cool. I always wondered how it detected it
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Agile Vector posted:Ours it slightly different looking but works exactly the same! It does a solidly consistent job and has for ages, to the point I'm not sure how I even got it (as a gift?), and the little metal plate is discolored but it still soldiers on making a half dozen eggs loudly I know the World-Wide Web is full of completely bullshit "YOU CAN USE VINEGAR TO" but you actually probably can use vinegar to clean it. Worked for me. Just fill the base with vinegar and turn the cooker on. Boil for several minutes or until the machine turns itself off.
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Beeftweeter posted:i got it ended up buying a 20 year old usb floppy drive. newer ones couldn't deal with a double density floppy
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outhole surfer posted:ended up buying a 20 year old usb floppy drive. newer ones couldn't deal with a double density floppy a usb 5.25" drive? where in the world e: hmm i guess if you could find an IDE 5.25" drive, an old CD enclosure would work on that note, funy tech poo poo i just remembered: external enclosures for IDE 5.25" CD/DVD drives, and then getting rid of it + the drive when SATA became a thing like two years later Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Agile Vector posted:That's really cool. I always wondered how it detected it I think this was posted before, but it was how I learned how a rice cooker works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI
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echinopsis posted:SCSI I’d love a SCSI rice cooker to hook up to my Power Mac.
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echinopsis posted:SCSI yes, your scsi-ness is well known around here
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echinopsis posted:idk it wasn’t obvious to me when I learned water boils at 100C but you can’t heat water in a pot past 100c it’s impossible.  Actually, it turns out that you c-echinopsis posted:strictly you can heat water above 100 or below 0 and keep it liquid, you can do it in a microwave and create a future steam explosion or a cool tiktok where someone taps a bottle of water and it freezes in front of you. which is why I said in a pot in case someone  Damnit.
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echinopsis posted:SCSI wait'll you find out what USB Mass Storage is...
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You can heat water to below 0? the actual reaction where the water molecules stack up into a crystal requires a nucleation point normally they’re everywhere so water just freezes, but there’s a way to I haven’t watched this but it looks like this is what I am talking about https://youtu.be/hd4Z86sIJGk?si=Uf83TQPoSYDdNudX
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the login to ibm's programs, where it would show a series of pictures as you type in your password
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The_Franz posted:yes, your scsi-ness is well known around here i'm too SCSI for my posts
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and yet, almost nobody wants to use the names cardbus or expresscard, despite them being way easier
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I had this drum machine thing and it was sweet that you could store samples and data on one, cheap and easy now if we talking about funy : compact flash wasn’t it literally ide?? I had an older canon camera and let my son use it and somehow he bent one pin, and for all intents and purposes the camera was hosed
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echinopsis posted:
yes. i use passive adapters to put cf cards in old arcade games
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echinopsis posted:I had this drum machine thing and it was sweet that you could store samples and data on one, cheap and easy he probably tried to put the card in backwards and forced it when it didnt go. the edge keys on those aren't very robust if people can fix bent cpu pins with no issue, surely you can fix one cf card pin? get in there with some tweezers and a pick, i guess
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I know the World-Wide Web is full of completely bullshit "YOU CAN USE VINEGAR TO" but you actually probably can use vinegar to clean it. Worked for me. Just fill the base with vinegar and turn the cooker on. Boil for several minutes or until the machine turns itself off. ooo, thanks! I'm gonna try this next time. I've been unsure how to clean it, since I don't want to get he rest wet NoneMoreNegative posted:I think this was posted before, but it was how I learned how a rice cooker works: also thanks! I don't know how I missed this. gonna plop down to watch since his stuff is great echinopsis posted:eh I gave it a shot with the tools I had on hand, but couldn’t get it down that skinny slot one of the best handy gifts I got was a pair of small needle nose pliers specifically because they've helped me straighten out hard-to-reach pins like that. I want to say it was an ide connector I had bent somehow in an old frankenstein parts machine? anyways, they were usually for pulling jumpers and the long, narrow tip was perfect for gently correcting hasty error I also flattened the thin video connector fins/pins on a laptop mobo once, which I stressfully corrected by slowly pushing into place with an exacto blade. the reason it was disassembled? repainting a worn silver laptop case black, literally fixing something that wasn't broken
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echinopsis posted:PCMCIA It was input-autput to connect your personnel computer to your McIntosh Apple.
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echinopsis posted:PCMCIA my tv still has a pcmcia card slot because some european cable operators used it for their account cards
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njsykora posted:my tv still has a pcmcia card slot because some european cable operators used it for their account cards oh is that what that's for? I always wondered
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Jonny 290 posted:people can't memorize confusing industry acronyms
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since we're on dumb connection stuff, dell d/bay, their attempt to have a proprietary connection for their external drives that could also just be a usb port on the laptop
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echinopsis posted:eh I gave it a shot with the tools I had on hand, but couldn’t get it down that skinny slot it's pretty easy to fix bent CF pins with a strong, thin tweezer. i've done it probably hundreds of times over the past 20 years Raluek posted:he probably tried to put the card in backwards and forced it when it didnt go. the edge keys on those aren't very robust this was likely the exact problem. literally every time i'd bent a pin this was why. sometimes with really lovely cheap devices (readers, always be sure to get a decent one for CF) they break off, but a reader is way cheaper to replace than a camera
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CF is still pretty good imo, it was also way faster than SD for a very long time (and still is really). i picked up a bunch of toshiba 32 gb CF cards on clearance for $15 each that do UDMA7 and they regularly hit a sustained 150 MB/sec, so i use them for storage and because they're NOR flash they don't have the same problems with slow fragmented writes that SD cards do echinopsis posted:PCMCIA fun fact, PCMCIA is pin-compatible with CF, so you just need a passive adapter, and boom, instant SSD for your old-rear end laptop
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SO DEMANDING posted:there was also something about having to put firewire ports on cable boxes. not sure if those were ever used by anyone for anything ever. i used it to transfer recordings from a comcast dvr in like 2007. they didn't set the copyright flag (which was always easy to defeat anyway). slice out the commercials with ffmpeg and boom you got your own pirating material there you could also use it to program the dvr, so being a tremendous nerd i wrote my own program to do that (but pretty much never used it). apple used to offer a framework for it
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