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True story: I would download zelda speed runs and burn them to video cd so I could watch them via portable dvd player on long car trips.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 14:16 |
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# ¿ May 4, 2024 09:01 |
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How's support for the magic trackpad on non-osx OSes? I'd say give that a try. For content: The HP Jornada 720 (Or 'Handheld PCs' in general) I wanted one so bad when I was in middle school. I would always go play with them in Best Buy and dream about one day having the money to afford such a small computer. Years later I got my first job and bought one off ebay for ~$200. This is still pre-smartphone proliferation, btw. I installed doom, but the screen ghosting made it unplayable, so I used it as the most awkward mp3 player ever. Also, if you let the battery die, it would resort to its' backup battery (a CR2032) to keep its' memory. Leave it dead for too long and you'd have a completely factory resetted device and a bunch of warnings about your dead backup battery. It's still sitting in my room. quote:The Jornada 720 was released in 2000. It featured 32 MB of RAM, a Compact Flash slot, a PC card slot, a Smart card slot, 56K Modem, 640x240 16-bit display, a 206 MHz StrongARM CPU, and has 9 hours of battery life[2]. It ran under the Windows CE 3.0 based HPC2000. The Jornada 728, released later, was identical except for the doubling of RAM to 64 MB and 14 hours of battery.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2012 15:25 |
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buttopticor posted:imagine something you connect to your Xbox to play PS2 games or something. How about playstation games on your dreamcast?
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2012 18:41 |
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Fuzz1111 posted:Anyway, back on topic, I present to you the Toshiba T3100SX: Awesome. I have one of these. Found it at a thrift store. When I booted it up it still had a bunch of insurance company software on it. One thing that may not be obvious to those that have just seen the image: It's not really a "laptop", it's a "portable computer". I believe they made battery packs for it, but to use mine, I have to plug it into a wall with a standard computer power cable. The thing weighs about a million pounds, but has a built in handle. I've thought about bringing it with me to a starbucks for comedic effect, but I'm just not that goony yet.
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# ¿ Aug 9, 2012 13:57 |
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Apparently there are, in fact, enough places where you need to type stuff that don't have electricity to warrant the manufacture of a manual typewriter in 2012. When I worked at CVS, the pharmacist told me that all stores (maybe all pharmacies in general) had to have one on hand so they could make labels even if there was a prolonged power outage. (Natural disasters, etc.)
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2012 15:48 |
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Yeah, I know rich dudes will still wear gold watches and stuff, but I'm talking about 30 and 40 dollar run of the mill wristwatches. I didn't realize how much they've gone out of fashion until someone called me old fashioned for still having my trusty analogue wristwatch. I wear this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F91W because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees_accused_of_possessing_Casio_watches
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2012 16:17 |
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I had this one: Never had an issue with short battery life. I loved that thing. I think it got stepped on, and that's why I stopped using it.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2012 15:35 |
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Cleretic posted:Hell, you can't give the GBA and DS credit for being durable as gently caress without mentioning the original Game Boy...surviving a Gulf War bombing. Manky posted:Nintendo can have some silly ideas now and then, but drat if they can't make solid hardware while their competitors make consoles that ship with 1 in 8 failure rates. My Gamecube once fell three feet while I was playing Smash Bros. and it was fine. A few months ago a drunk friend peed almost directly into my Wii. It's still fine! Have one, love it. If you have small hands and good eyesight, it's easily the best handheld ever made.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2012 13:32 |
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Landerig posted:Yeah. Then twenty years later you decide to replace it with a more modern TV only to realize that heavy son of a bitch isn't leaving your living room without a fight. I want modern tech in this style.
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2012 02:53 |
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Mousepractice posted:It's great showing people how to do this for the first time. "Just touch it on the top there ... and now your money's gone! No receipt." As a former CVS photo lab manager, gently caress APS.
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# ¿ Oct 3, 2012 14:09 |
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I was turned away from a Norwegian McDonalds because they wouldn't take my (US) Visa. They said they only took "Norwegian credit cards". I guess this is because it wasn't tied to a Norwegian bank?
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# ¿ Oct 3, 2012 16:39 |
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Physical posted:All you have to do is write an app that generates those tones. What frequency are they? I know most tones are actually two tones played simultaneously, so I wonder if these ones are constructed any differently. It'd like to hear them. It's been a while since phone systems used the actual tones to dial.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2012 22:11 |
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BoutrosBoutros posted:Christ alive if it takes a few days you might as well mail them a check. There's no point in changing banks for that. Western Union is almost instant, takes like 5 minutes. I used to have to transfer money to my dad once a week and he didn't have a computer or a bank account he could use, and not once did the money take longer to get there than it took me to tell him it was coming. It's instant if both parties are members. My brother and I make bets all the time and use this for payment.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2012 19:38 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Also if your kid is 8 and wants to walk around listening to music a tape player is like 5 dollars and some random Beatles tapes from goodwill are like fifty cents. It's not like your kid is going to care a lot about audio fidelity and you as a parent don't have to worry about them breaking a hundred dollar MP3 player when they fall off their scooter or run through a sprinkler. This is a great point. I'd like to do this once I have kids. It'll be something fun and cheap for them to collect.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 15:14 |
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stealie72 posted:"Daddy, how come Dakota and Raine have ipods and I have this stupid old boring walkman thing?" I was mostly talking about the before school era. "Gotta run some errands but if you're good at the grocery store we'll go thrifting!" (We would go thrifting regardless.)
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 16:10 |
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a RAID of ps1 memory cards
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2022 21:23 |
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That one looks to be able to pick up 13 channels, including channel 1 (this is rare). Source: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/crosley_9_408.html quote:Notes You can make your own analog signal with a decent enough modulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3k4e-0_Wy8 Note: This is probably very much against FCC regulations, but may depend on the amount of power you put behind it. edit: lmao the first 10 or so seconds of that video
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2022 05:29 |
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I want to be his friend
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2022 06:08 |
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That is some real life star trek right there
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2022 22:02 |
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I got a 3 handset home phone system that can connect to two cell phones via bluetooth so you can leave your phone on the counter and just use a home phone if someone calls you. It works great, I used it to help break my phone addiction. I don't use it anymore though.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2022 21:59 |
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goblin week posted:I just wish someone would make an actual new good tape player like they do new turntables. I havw a hankering to collect physical music but vinyls are so loving expensive & shipping overseas is a nightmare Collect CDs. It's easy and they sound good.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2022 20:07 |
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I tried casting a halloween playlist to a speaker outside, but it kept cutting out. Instead, I hooked a discman up to a boombox and put in a spooky sfx disc. Way more reliable! The only downside was the discman is too old for a repeat function, so I had to start it over every hour.
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 18:58 |
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Chainclaw posted:Where do people get old, obsolete tech online nowadays? I want a compact video camera with RCA out to use in a live streaming setup, and eBay isn't what it used to be. I get all kinds of neat stuff from shopgoodwill.com
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2022 20:01 |
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holy poo poo!!!!! I was going to make this specifically for clip art but I gave up because http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/11027/12,000%20Clip%20Art%20Plus.iso/content/people/04/08560pe.wmf I love this
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2023 21:00 |
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A YOUU AITCH EFF STATION!!!
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2023 02:18 |
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good lord that would wreck my neck
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2023 23:25 |
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Dicty Bojangles posted:What on earth would be the circumstances in which this would be a wise decision? I could see this making sense at a check-in counter like at a hotel or doctor's office. Use of a computer is transactional, so the amount of time looking down at it is smaller. I miss desks where the computer isn't the main character.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2023 18:30 |
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We have a pretty decent CD collection. Takes up less space than vinyl and you still get the same joy of choosing something intentionally rather than just hitting shuffle or starting a themed radio station. Taking turns picking out the next one while cooking or baking is really nice! Plus, very good quality.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 19:40 |
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GreenNight posted:Want. Lady Radia posted:i would pay an unreasonable amount of money for this
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2023 21:03 |
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Arrath posted:A classier, vintage version of those people building raspberryPis into pelican cases (which are rad and I want one) I'd rather have one of those colorful iBook G3s with a modern raspberry pi in it. I would pay way too much for that, especially if it was easy to swap out/replace the pi over time.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2023 22:58 |
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Mantle posted:Isn't it so they can force you to buy their headphones on the plane instead of using your own? On delta at least they go up and down the aisle with a basket of individually packaged earbuds and give them out for free to anyone that wants them. The more people that use the built in infotainment the fewer they have to babysit.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2023 23:09 |
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holefoods posted:Watched some laserdiscs tonight, it had been a while. I really miss all of the “…and now our feature presentation” and THX intros and whatnot. The downside being that (in the case of VHS at least) it was coming after a ton of trailers, but just the overall presentation of home video being this amazing novel thing is something I miss. It’s such a normal thing now, who cares to spice it up anymore. Laserdiscs are great, we've been building out our collection. We display them and watch them. Nocheez posted:A Plex server loaded with high quality media, skip intros and skip credits buttons is a far superior experience to flipping a disc every 45 minutes or so. I like both.
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# ¿ May 26, 2023 22:44 |
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Laserdiscs being displayed on wood paneling??
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# ¿ May 28, 2023 06:03 |
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steckles posted:Incomparably blessed. I've got my copy of Independence Day on the mantle next to wedding photos, family portraits, photos of favored decease cats, etc. Hell yeah! We have the VHS with that hologram card too!
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# ¿ May 29, 2023 03:04 |
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The perfect vehicle is the 1987 Subaru BLT https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/1987-subaru-blt-concept/
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 00:56 |
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Isn't most of nostalgia rooted in a desire for the simpler times of youth? It's not that things were better, it's that we didn't know enough to fear life. also things were better
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 01:43 |
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I got a knife from IKEA and a sharpener and that IKEA knife is sharp as hell. Real good knife.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2023 03:24 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is it cyeramic? stainless steel
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2023 21:28 |
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AlternateAccount posted:I still have a chefs knife from IKEA I paid about $40 for 10 years ago. Use it constantly, sharpens easily, really good. I can't imagine this one was more than $10 edit: oops, meant to combine those into one post.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2023 21:28 |
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# ¿ May 4, 2024 09:01 |
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pelotons and teslas
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2023 22:14 |