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distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


there's a lot of complaining in this forum about computer's not working, being garbage, "a piece of poo poo" etc. let's hear about all the times they've made your life better instead!

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ultravoices
May 10, 2004

You are about to embark on a great journey. Are you ready, my friend?
computers help me gently caress and suck op

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
computers made me wealthy without having to do much work at all.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

computers made me wealthy without having to do much work at all.

:hmmyes:

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




ultravoices posted:

computers help me gently caress and suck op

I’m sure op appreciates this

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
while computers don’t directly make me richer, when I hear stories of how old school pharmacists had to use typewriters to make labels and keep handwritten log books of scripts, it makes me glad I avoided those grim primitive technology days

thankyou bull gates for inventing the central processing unit

Dans Macabre
Apr 24, 2004


The computer I'm using right now (Dell XPS with Linux) is good.

Dans Macabre
Apr 24, 2004


CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

computers made me wealthy without having to do much work at all.

and epic thissary

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

distortion park posted:

there's a lot of complaining in this forum about computer's not working, being garbage, "a piece of poo poo" etc. let's hear about all the times they've made your life better instead!

...

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

computers made me wealthy without having to do much work at all.

i mean i guess

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
im still mad about em tho

Truman Peyote
Oct 11, 2006



sometimes computers have blinky lights and go bleep bloop

Dans Macabre
Apr 24, 2004


Burial made his critically acclaimed debut album using GoldWave, not possible without a computer. I don't know if that is worth all the suffering computers have caused but that is a positive!

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
im going to retire before im 45 because of computers

Truman Peyote
Oct 11, 2006



dot matrix printers were pretty fun. we should bring those back

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

i spend most of every day on one computer or another and i just find them neat somehow op

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Truman Peyote posted:

dot matrix printers were pretty fun. we should bring those back

you can still get them. they're just really expensive now because they're no longer consumer items and are targetted at businesses who need to print on multi-page forms.

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

i like readers, because reading (not technical documentation) is fun

distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


dioxazine posted:

i like readers, because reading (not technical documentation) is fun

this is a good one, i love my kobo

distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


other good computers:
* the little one in my casio watch that keeps the time, and helps me cook
* the one in the radio with physical nobs that my mum uses to listen to a wide variety of middle aged people talk about gardening

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


no.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

i'm positively certain your os is a pos

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

akadajet posted:

i'm positively certain your os is a pos

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

distortion park posted:

this is a good one, i love my kobo

same

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
computers give me effortless access to the greatest collection of nudity assembled in human history

Tankakern
Jul 25, 2007

agreeing on kobo, and i dont even have an e-reader

Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

ultravoices posted:

computers help me gently caress and suck op

my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine

ultravoices posted:

computers help me gently caress and suck op

my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine
computers allow me to read everyone’s posts, which are all very good :)

Dans Macabre
Apr 24, 2004


Truman Peyote posted:

dot matrix printers were pretty fun. we should bring those back

I found one of these in storage the other day:

https://store.humanware.com/hus/juliet-double-sided-braille-embosser.html

It's definitely cool.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

nvrgrls posted:

I found one of these in storage the other day:

https://store.humanware.com/hus/juliet-double-sided-braille-embosser.html

It's definitely cool.

lol at that price gouging

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone
imagine having to write down all the dots and dashes by hand and doing the math yourself to decode the hello.jpg gif, what a burden life would be without compute

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone

akadajet posted:

lol at that price gouging

its not gouging, its embossing

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



akadajet posted:

lol at that price gouging

ah the assistive technology market :allears:

Corla Plankun posted:

its not gouging, its embossing

a perfect :dadjoke:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



this is the positivity thread, so for assistive access there's a lot of good tools and open source software now, like NVDA, that lowers the barrier of entry to $0

Armitag3
Mar 15, 2020

Forget it Jake, it's cybertown.


screw this thread! computers are BAD any computer built after 1992 can’t work… all they know is macintosh , charge they phone , not work, be ineffectual , heat big chip & die

matti
Mar 31, 2019

i use the computer to watch baseball. and you can use it to talk to people you want to be romantically involved with. its pretty ok imho

my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine

matti posted:

and you can use it to talk to people you want to be romantically involved with.

maybe this works on your pc, but this functionality has eluded me thus far on mine

mystes
May 31, 2006

If your test comes back computer positive, you should probably see a doctor

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HamAdams
Jun 29, 2018

yospos
my computer works so hard. keep going little buddy, you’re doing great!

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