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namlosh posted:Completely agree that A friend of mine ones said that Gangsta's Paradise is the kind of song that gets better the worse your equipment is, and the optimal listening experience is a tinny mono transistor radio.
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Humphreys posted:I remember ripping a Metallica CD myself and somehow through CDDA Ripper managed to pickup me pen-drumming along with the 1:1 rip speed. The version of Lights and Sounds I downloaded in 2004 started to loop at the end for some reason (playing the opening riff at the end of the song) and for the longest time I thought that's just how the song went.
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Also, if you ever had System of a Down - Legend of Zelda in your MP3 collection...
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barbecue at the folks posted:Yeah, everyone knows the real artist was Mr. Bungle I was just going for a "If you had that MP3, your knees crack when you stand up now" kinda thing, but couldn't think of anything witty to put there so just trailed off.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Open Firmware? Hah! It's a PB 270C from 1993 Oh, the c model? Fancy. In high school at one point I inherited my aunt's PB 140 with stunning 4 color display: Black-ish, white-ish, and two different greys. Read a lot of weird porn on that thing before it finally gave up the ghost.
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LifeSunDeath posted:watching a video about dreamcast...noticed the funniest poo poo: IIRC, it was basically "Game devs could write using Windows and some variations of DirectX for the Dreamcast, but nobody ever did and it was a really dumb joke of a thing".
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Crystal Quest, Sky Shadow, Lemmings, Loderunner, pretty much any game by Ambrosia software Having sudden flashbacks to hours spent in my basement on my 68040 Performa playing Escape Velocity and Harry the Handsome Executive.
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an AOL chatroom posted:That game was so great, I'm surprised it didn't come back with an iPad reboot Is Ambrosia even around anymore? Last I saw their last updates were some weird OS 9/X apps for power PC.
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pretty soft girl posted:I follow a Calvin and hobbes shitposting group and after the 472nd white noise hot take post in a one week span using this template: I mod on /r/anime and regularly get called a nazi because I removed someone's post about their waifu or whatever. The lesson is people are terrible and humanity was a mistake.
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Also IDK if they still do but Bell used to charge extra for "Touch Tone" phones.
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I actually have one of those somewhere around here that came in some mystery box I bought from a youtube channel; not smoking, I've never had a chance to use it.
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Lowen SoDium posted:I wish that WiFi SD cards were more common and available in larger sizes because I want my SNES rom cart to be wifi connected to load new roms easier. Not for nothing, but every SNES game ever takes up maybe half a gig. Are you regularly loading up new romhacks or something?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It may have been a joke but I remember a test that showed diskette without turbo and tape have the same load times. Players or the ball, most likely.
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Powered Descent posted:There are still radio and TV ads that use "backslash" when speaking a URL, as in "visit company dot com backslash rewards". They've had over a quarter century to learn this poo poo. Hell, this happened in an episode of Brooklyn 99 and I flinch every time I hear it. Especially because the character who says it would definitely not make that mistake.
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LifeSunDeath posted:My favorite game on it was either Vitrua Racer or Virtua Fighter. Both games were also out in arcades at the time and it blew my mind I could play them at home. I had the sega CD as well so I had some games that required all 3 systems but they weren't very good. The 32x was also just this weird victim of internal politics and Sega JP and Sega USA just not liking each other a lot. It didn't help that both it and the forthcoming Saturn both used a lot of the same chips, which resulted in the Saturn's hilariously bad US launch.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Analog mobile systems like the AMPS were pretty wild in that calls really were just transmitted over radio, so you could tune in with a scanner to eavesdrop on other people's calls. NMT at least had some rudimentary scrambling that made that strategy unviable. Until the last couple of years, scanners in the US had to omit the 900mhz range to avoid accidentally intercepting cell phone calls, as they were protected by law, but not by any technological reason.
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evobatman posted:Let me guess, if you bought the right model radio this omission could be "fixed" with 10 seconds of soldering? Nearly all of them, yup. It was just a filter IIRC. Kinda like MARS mods on modern radios so they can transmit outside of 2m/70cm.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I recently got into WebSDR and listening to HAM radio broadcasts around the states. I also started typing out the weird conversations, and while most are pretty dumb, sometimes people troll each other and it's hilarious. Might one day make a thread about it and post all the logs, but I'm not really ready for primetime on that. A lot of it has moved over to digital, but you can still find some of the Greatest Hits of Ham Radio, such as: 1) Guy going lightning fast through a contest pile up so fast you'd think you had a stroke 2) Three chuds ragchewing on 14.whatever MHz. 3) That one loving nutso repeater in LA that's basically 4chan but for Ham Radio.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:The dormant podcast "Silent Key" was nothing but weird HAM conversations, run by one of the Jerk City guys. Ironic that it's dormant, cus Silent Key is a euphemism for a dead operator. Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:HAM radio sounds like Chatroulette except you can't see that the dude you're talking to is jacking off. It's honestly a lot of fun, especially the worldwide chatroom that is FT8 and JS8, but you have to be of a technical mind. If you're interested, SA has a club in SHSC I think?
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Re cell phone signal chat, it's one of the few times I actually take my radio for any purpose other than loving around with APRS or chilling out on a repeater; we go up to Lincoln, NH every so often, and signal can be spotty up there, especially if we go on the highway or over the Kankamangus highway.
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Grumio posted:Sometimes I miss that little rhythm playing on my speakers! Like a little heads-up your phone was about to ring I don't remember if this was a thing or just something I made up, but I feel like right around the time the iPhone came out, something about how it connected to the network or got messages or something could affect some mics, so a lot of podcasters had these weird clicking sounds in their recordings for a while.
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an actual frog posted:god that owns so much. Sure it was a disastrous, failed product but just look at it You can sign up for those in the US too, usually for a small fee. They call it "Overdraft protection" or something.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Happy 40th birthday Commodore 64 IDK about Atari, but Apple gave sweetheart deals to pretty much every school who wanted it, so "Playing on an Apple ][/Playing on a Mac" is a universal school memory for a lot of people in the generation likely to post on SA.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Your screwdriver bit storage situation is giving me anxiety That's how they come in the iFixIt kit. 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It doesn't really bother me - at least my upstream doubled in the last year. It rarely comes into play for me, aside from being faster on those rare occasions I'm uploading pictures or, even more rarely, video. In most of my town if you want actual broadband you're stuck with Xfinity, but the service has been good for me and getting a little better year over year. Where I live, there's a concert venue that's had a few name changes, but Comcast bought the rights and it used to be called the Comcast Center, now it's the Xfinity Center, but everyone still calls it Great Woods.
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George RR Fartin posted:I grew up down the street from there! And yeah, it's always gonna be Great Woods. I think the only name that kinda stuck was Tweeter Center back when Tweeter (a local bespoke stereo system company) owned the rights. I'm pretty sure we all went back to Great Woods just to spite Comcast. Of course, this is part of the Grand Massachusetts Tradition of Ignoring Name Changes, dating back to the 95/128 debacle.
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Humphreys posted:I have a 'thing' about leaving period-time stickers on my stuff. All my ex-rental tapes keep them, and my games too. Even my sub $10 PS4 games I get each week keep the current EB sales stickers for the fun of what they are worth in the future. I was able to pick up a book (limited run, it's now like $70) of photos of VHS stickers from rental place around the country called Stuck on VHS. NGL, it's a nostalgic read.
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skooma512 posted:New technology actually being good: Weed dispensaries where you just roll up with cash and hand it to a 20 something latina and she gives you weed. You don't have know a guy who knows a guy and then have to chill with his stupid rear end for a half hour listening to Steely Dan. To be fair, Steely Dan rules.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Do all these (non-insane homelab full of aliexpress RF modulator) IPTV solutions like ersatztv not also just spend all day burning electricity and spinning up your hard drives while nobody is watching, or is there some kind of voodoo going on where it keeps to the schedule and brings up the required file at an appropriate time stamp when you go to the channel? It's just really good at skipping to the moment it should. I've run Ersatz and Disqueue and they're not running multiple feeds at once, they're just spinning up what a database says they should be.
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Mantle posted:I remember using notebook and laptop interchangeably until one day laptop just won. I don't think anyone I know calls them notebook computers anymore. I'm curious if it is a regional thing like pop/coke/soda/softdrink. My memory was that Laptops were the more full-featured machines (like what we'd call a "desktop replacement" these days), whereas a notebook was smaller, less feature-filled, but lighter, intended as a fill-in machine (like the Powerbook Duo).
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Every so often I think of getting a node on ShadyTel or one of the other SIP public PBXes just for fun, but I'm too cheap to get a good Polycom for it. (the irony being I work for a VOIP provider)
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Merritt (if it's the same Merritt I think it is, merrittk.com on Bluesky) just did a whole book on LAN Parties IIRC.
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