Vanagoon posted:

The latest Technology Connections has the guy poking around in an old full deck CD player with the leads to an oscilloscope trying to reverse engineer it, it's great.

Cojawfee posted:

Is that the thing it sucks the disc out of the cartridge and you take the empty cartridge out?

Barudak posted:

For some of these in more recent years they have different phone numbers in the ad so they know what programming drove you to call them.

Horace posted:

From 1984, an "illegal" cordless phone with a 1500ft range. "imagine walking your dog while talking on the phone".



The tl;dr of this million word ad is that the phone is way overpowered but legal to sell until the FCC finalise the regulations, so buy NOW.

Vanagoon posted:

Duet of the Broken Hard Drives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGCp4ZowMg

UxWbill's channel is great, he's kinda rambly and long winded but he's a nerdy nerd. One of us!

Cojawfee posted:

Excel runs like poo poo sometimes too. And I hate how it doesn't accept scroll wheel inputs when not in focus, when everything else does.

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

what else should i read if i loved exploding the phone? analog telephony history is preferred, but vintage hacking in general is good too. don't be afraid to get technical; i won't understand it but i'd like to try anyway

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I want this to be a real thing

is it a real thing?

stevewm posted:

I used to be a gigantic Winamp nerd... then I moved onto Foobar and spent hours meticulously tweaking and customizing the interface.

I have a several hundred GB music collection, a good chunk of it lossless that I ripped myself from my uncle's massive CD collection. Spent untold hours arranging, tagging, renaming, etc... And these days I never touch it. I haven't played a file from it in a couple years actually. Went to streaming services some time ago and never looked back.

Last Chance posted:

no but I remember calling Google 411 when i moved to a new city to figure out where to go out to eat and how to get around a few times

ishikabibble posted:

It still is up, just under a new name iirc? Still invite only with tons of dumb hoops.

mobby_6kl posted:

Trabant posted:

Here's an interesting video that has nothing to do with screaming YouTubers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGWZpKYYc_Y

namlosh posted:

TechnologyConnections is so good that I hoard the episodes... which I know is dumb.

Is there some rule about having a playlist of content that starts at the beginning and ends at the last, most recent episode? It seems like such a nobrainer, but very few have it at all.

If someone knows such a playlist for TechnologyConnections I will be ever grateful

Humphreys posted:

Just found this fella and I kinda like how he seems to hate everything he talks about. It's low quality so no stupid transitions, just in depth reviews. He did a really good one on mobile AOL messenger devices and you can feel the loathing.

This one is neat for camera nerds, and stay for the serial killer basement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqVyLH3f9w

And this is actually a very good primer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQF_K9MqpA
"Disclaimer, don't do this, you might go to jail!"
And the cheeky fucker is wearing a shirt that will zebra everywhere.

Dip Viscous posted:

Are safety broadcasts are close to being relics? The last TV my parents bought didn't have any sort of built in tuner, and I didn't have anything to receive over the air broadcasts until I got a portable AM/FM radio a while back specifically for listening to local weather alerts and news. Cars still have radios, but everyone I know with a car listens to their phone instead of FM.

It doesn't seem like there's a good replacement for them, either. My phone is supposed to receive emergency alerts, but it's never once shown me one even as tornados rolled through.

Code Jockey posted:

Wait you could do video on shoutcast too?

Man I feel like I missed out, pirate TV over shoutcast sounds awesome

EL BROMANCE posted:

They massively screwed up and the backend got overloaded so a whole ton of people who paid for the service weren't able to watch the first episode of the show, whereas a scene group managed to get it as it went live.

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Type "username:wa27" in the thread search bar at the top of the page.

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You Am I posted:

Here's photos of the GamesMen Summer 92 catalogue: https://imgur.com/a/TdhG54V

Dr. Quarex posted:

Yeah I guess I appreciate that he is comfortable enough with himself to show the absolute gooniest fall I have ever seen

I do like so that he is aware his new setup looks kind of lovely. Ben Heck in the comments mentioned the backdrop is too dark and the table too light, which sounds right