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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com it’s like Darwinism for cars. Carwinism, if you will.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social not sure if it’s important or even a contribution to internet culture, but I designed a PCB board for a 30-pin SIMM and published it to the hub for gits, and multiple people have either forked the design and improved it or been inspired by it to design their own.
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@nini @rgbunny @davidrevoy exactly. RAM, GPUs, SSDs, HDDs, they’re all available, they just jacked up the prices in anticipation of a shortage that may never eventuate. That means fewer people are buying them, so they’ll end up with a glut of hardware once the bubble bursts, and a market that’s used to holding onto their old hardware or finding a second hand deal instead of buying new.
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@haineux@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social LOL it’s even about the same shade of yellow-orange as some of my Mac keyboards!
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@aral it’s Schrödinger's content. If you login to view it, the quantum superposition collapses and you discover it either doesn’t exist, or that it wasn’t worth the effort because of the rest of the garbage on those platforms.
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- people just generally being nice to each other on the Internet
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@aburka@hachyderm.io @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @regehr@mastodon.social @dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems lol thanks, I needed that cramp I’m my side from laughing too hard. No wait, I mean I didn’t need it. But thanks anyway.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social but they increased the price for aviation customers from $65/month to $250 and decreased the allowance to 20GB. That’s over 3.5x shareholder value! And if you want to go >300MPH, it’s $1,000. That’s >15x! Line go up means they should be allowed to dump as much metal into the atmosphere, no matter what unknown consequences might occur.
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@monkeyninja@10base2.dev they usually also come with an excellent warranty (if you buy them new), and are very repairable. We had backlight issues with some of the digital signage TVs at work, and it literally takes 2 minutes to replace the backlight. They even send a technician out to do the replacement onsite.
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social I definitely know the feeling of number 4, it’s like “OMG I’ve been writing for 6 hours an that’s all I’ve done?!”
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social had to put my plan to fix my backup solution on hold because of the artificial inflation (AI) of HDD prices. At least I got most of my important data off the unreliable drive with only a little data loss.
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@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I don’t think the fines should be on a sliding scale, they should be on a hyperbolic scale! If they fined them a million last time, make it a billion, then 500 billion, then a trillion. It’s about sending a message to shareholders, their money will be burnt if they continue to support the business. Simply shutting them down could set a dangerous precedent, as it could be used to shutdown businesses/organisations that do good.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place sadly, the laws of physics (or something) prevent them from just fining platforms for promoting scams, there’s just no way to stop them. just like there’s no way to release the Epstein files without a certain President’s name redacted literally thousands of times
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@paulrickards@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I ordered a Maclock and the parts to mod it a couple of weeks ago, hopefully it arrives in time for Marchintosh activities!
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@solownh@mstdn.party @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green yes, thank goodness for the affluent, as opposed to the data centre operators, who are effluent.
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@simontatham the thing I found that most improved the amount of email I could get through was learning the keyboard shortcut for archiving emails.
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk they’ll be doing the world a favour, some of the horrific cabling work I’ve seen over the years.
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@europlus@social.europlus.zone @paulrickards@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social both my Maclock and its new guts shipped last Thursday, hopefully arriving in the next week or two. I’m currently reliant on my friend for 3D printing, but it should be doable before the end of Marchintosh (if not, it wont stop me finishing it anyway). Also, greeting from Wangal country (took a sneaky peek at your profile :)
@fluidlogic the first computer I remember we had was an Apple II, but I don’t remember using it much since I was very young. The next computer we had was an IBM JX, which I definitely used quite a lot. It was the Japanese version of the PCjr, basically a low-end 16-bit machine.
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@alvaro I would void that thing’s warranty in no time flat. It’d be way quicker to just bodge the fix on the device than looking everywhere to find the magic cable that makes it work. (Also, F those nonstandard cables.)
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social [in trump voice] I can’t believe this picture got 10 billion boosts on Mastodon. It’s really incredible, believe me, you won’t believe it. She came to me, big girlfriend strong girlfriend, tears streaming down her face, said it was impossible to get 10 billion boosts, but we did it. The most boosts ever. You’ve never seen more. We got more than Biden, more than Obama, and we’ll beat Obama again. You just need to boost this once, and you’ll never have to boost again.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wasn’t this in a movie? Something about robots, I think it had Arnold Schwarzenegger in it. The terminal, or something like that.
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@hackaday@hackaday.social American B type C is so flexible, you can pick up a random cable and it might support 10G, 480M, or even charging only at low current, and there’s no way of knowing just looking at it if it’s not labelled.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I had a few real clangers, but I think I did pretty well considering I just did it on my phone.
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AQIjKP__86_f
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@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt the even funnier part was that the question that the computer came up with was the wrong question to begin with!
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@ploopy@mastodon.social as long as it’s not a nubbin bug. Wouldn’t want to risk Riker and Picard busting in and phasering my head until it explodes.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social my old Golf didn’t like running on old petrol. It ran, but noticeably less power/torque. It had a high-performance camshaft and I suspect slightly increased compression, though I never checked. Loved high revs, but not on old fuel.
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@dev@discuss.systems I tried googling “how to become goose with internal mechanism to gain alpha value” but got no useful results.
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@Natasha_Jay read that as “first world” fencing league, which may or may not be something different. But damn, that looks amazing!
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt if they made a modern version of this today, the only buttons they’d only put on it would be 1, 5, and 9.