Comment on where the magic happens owo

allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you saying there used to be woodgrain lab hardware?

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There definitely was. I’ve seen it.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So it’s almost time for teal, orange et other fun colors, mixed with translucent plastic lab équipement?

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In 5 years hardcore researchers will be modding their lab equipment and installing plexiglass glass sides. Just like I did to my PC in 1999-2000ish

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• mayo_cider@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nowadays it’s a lot more of dark mode, which is a shame (especially since our software still doesn’t have it)

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• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m waiting for it come back in to style. I’ve pitched getting beige racks with this on the side en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    woah dude, that’s far out

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly, I think it was so ugly it was beautiful.

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  • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is also this particular tone of light brownish green which is on so many industrial tools like drill presses, table top saws and so on. I kinda dig it

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ooh, never thought of that as so ugly it’s pretty but I can kinda see it now

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?

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  • allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yes, I was using a 3.5" floppy disk drive with a USB connector in 2007 to kick off imaging on desktop machines as no one could get the ghost boot server working.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why not just use a thumb drive at that point?

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      • allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t remember specifically, I think it might have just been that the ghost image on the floppy was confirmed to work, and all the desktops were allowed to boot from floppy already and not necessarily via USB.

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