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- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 2 days ago:
But GOG is alresdy the Steam with Principals.
- Comment on Mine was the fact that Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929 😭 1 week ago:
The Apple II’s big selling point, compared to the other two big brands introduced in 1977 (the Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET) was colour.
But it was a weird and colour scheme that took advantage of clever Wozniak hacks to make it viable on a cheap machine. Good video hardware, and enough memory for the colour display, were spendy. That’s why even into the 1980s you’d have machines like the ZX Spectrum with limitations like “every 8x8 block can only have 2 colours” which used less memory, and 40-column screens that were readable on TVs instead of dedicated high-res monitors…
- Comment on Orac 2 weeks ago:
I was always disappointed that celebrity and character voice packs weren’t a thing for the voice-assistant platforms. I’d pay literal ones of dollars for a voice assistant with a Sebastian Michaelis intonation and theming.
Cortana for Windows Phone came closest, I think they did use the same voice actress as the game character.
- Comment on Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit late, but here’s my upvote. Ground the site for a few weeks, and took my Technician and General exams today, holed up in my bathroom.
- Comment on Ain't nothing a dollar anymore 1 month ago:
“Ten Bits” seems viable, although nobody cares much about the Spanish real anymore.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 1 month ago:
I put out one of those big plastic storage units with like 30 little drawers recently, figuring although 2 were missing, someone could still use it. I stood it next to the dustbin, on trash day where it would be optimally visible for anyone who wanted to scrounge it.
The bloody HOA took a picture and sent a nastygram.
- Comment on Python Sundae 2 months ago:
Cute!
- Comment on Anon finds a flashdrive 2 months ago:
My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with “I broughted you a pwesent ^w^” energy.
- Comment on Would a brigade effort to "engage" with Trump ads in streaming services force the campaign to waste extra money, and make a viable psyop when they measure their telemetry? 2 months ago:
Can we get the politicians to shift from illegal aliens to Sasquatch? Build a wall across Washington state and make Canada pay for it?
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 2 months ago:
The experience could be somewhat tamed by a lottery process.
Accept a token deposit for a week or two, and then draw from people contending for a given seat, then give them another week to pay the balance. Any unclaimed seats are put up at will call night-of-the-show. Limit the number of deposits taken from any given card to prevent “I’ll claim 30 seats and only buy 1” gaming of the lottery.
There’s probably some more complexity about it (if you want N seats together), but I think that would dramatically cut back on the frustration for “the tickets were only available for 14 seconds and the server was being DDOSed by scalper bots.”
Having to put down a deposit with no guarantee of a ticket also makes “buy All The Seats” scalping theoretically impossible and economically riskier. If there’s 5/1 contention for a ticket, you’d have to find a way to get 3 lottery slots for a better than even chance of getting it. If the deposit was $10, you’re spending $30 for the chance to buy a $50 ticket-- so if you can’t resell the ticket for at least $80, you lose. Under current policies, if you can sell that $50 ticket for $51, you’re ahead.
- Comment on Level 5 Gyatttttt 2 months ago:
I never realized the tattoos were photoshopped.
I assumed they used a random stock photo that had a convenient pose to add the shirt onto, that happened to have a tattoo.
Of course, I also figured using a photo with too much ink would 1) distract from the merchandise and 2) make the stock photo model too recognizable. (Oh, they clearly used Getty #8675309, “Fat White Guy With Mediocre Barbed Wire Tattoo”), but plenty of the pics are identifiable enough to use for a police report.
- Comment on It will outlive us all 3 months ago:
I’ve had KVMs that don’t like the ‘fancier’ USB keyboards with NKRO. It would work, but it wouldn’t listen for its own ‘switch to different console’ hotkeys. Reconfiguring the keyboard to run in 6KRO-only mode addressed it, but not every keyboard can be configured that way.
- Comment on Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do? 3 months ago:
As a non-amateur who every few months thinks “I should consider getting a license”, I’ve been hoping for an obvious bootstrap point.
The library has some old “here’s every exam question” style cram books, but I’m actually looking for a course for understanding, so I don’t pass the exam and proceed to have no idea what to do or how to behave. That went so well eith the driver’s license exam. :)
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
MTP is awfully slow on my Nokia G20 at least. OTOH, it has a uSD slot so I could just pop it out and transfer that way.
$150 phones are better than $1500 ones.
- Comment on Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome 3 months ago:
With American comics, it’s not even the shattered continuity, it’s that availability is a mess because some of the franchises are so ancient and collectible.
If I want to read through One Piece from the 1997 start, my library probably has/can inter-library loan all 105 volumes, or I can go to mainstream retailers and get any I’m missing without a huge fracas.
If I want to read Batman from the 1940 start, I’d better hope some of the rarer issues come up at auction in the near future AND that I can mortgage my house to afford them.
I’m amazed they never put out a DVD-ROM collection that’s “Everything Marvel/DC did prior to, say, 1990, as PDF scans” just so mere mortals have a chance to enjoy the experience of completionism.
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
After wrecking some JIS screws on a vintage reciever, I bought a nice Vessel-brand JIS driver set, and use it for all my crosshead needs.
- Comment on No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead 4 months ago:
The “looks for other operating systems” is huge for any desktop use with dualboot, recovery media, and plenty of systems have utilities like Memtest86 through the boot menu.
Grub always seemed weirdly complex yet incomplete- the idea that you had to pre-enumerate every bootable OS made it worse than rEFInd to me.
- Comment on The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC 5 months ago:
I’m surprised nobody makes an affordable PCI or maybe even USB GPIO box.
To me, the RasPi served two purposes:
- if you wanted GPIOs and the associated ecosystem of hats/shields/capes/straightjackets but a less barebones experience than a bare metal MCU
- RiscOS, because an Archimedes is far rarer than even an Amiga or ST in the Rogue Colonies
- Comment on How should news sites be funded? 5 months ago:
If I’ve learned anything from GTA… just drive the news van around and hit pedestrians until you make budget.
- Comment on Back in the 1970s when we switched to unleaded gas, what did the vehicles that ran on leaded gas do? 5 months ago:
I was under the impression thar’s what the mid-grade petrol was for; it had a high-enough octane factor to be non-knocking in engines designed for leaded.
- Comment on Says a lot about society 6 months ago:
No wonder DEC went broke. My VT220 didn’t come with any hunks crawling out of the screen Ringu style.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 6 months ago:
If they’re so awful, why do we need aggressive tarrifs to keep them off of American streets? I don’t think anyone was making people buy them over domestic alternatives…
(muffled sounds of discord)
WTF?! Xi Jinping himself busted down my front door, grabbed my debit card, and put down a deposit on a new BYD. And what’s worse, he picked one in that really insipid grey that you can never find in a parking lot.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
I did exactly that in February.
The thing didn’t scan right anyway, likely due to my phone being a filthy potato with a gradually failing protective screen.
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 7 months ago:
Isn’t this basically a stop on the continuum between visiting Colonial Williamsburg and Westworld depending on the labour used?
On both ends, I always figured there was a narrow market of people who want that level of all-inclusive themed experience. You go to London, you can always break out of the package tour and do something “the locals do”.
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- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 7 months ago:
And the demolition plans are in a disused washroom in the basement behind a sign that says “beware of the leopard.” That’s an absurd justification.
Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect. Most of them won’t search for it, and many of those that do won’t have the skills to deploy a registry hack or identify legit info instead of malware or pranks.
The right answer is a third button-- “No, forever.” We all know it’s the right answer; I’m sure even Microsoft has focus group data. It doesn’t exist because someone in Redmond’s bonus is tied to how many people are cowed into signing up for OneDtive.
I’ve got a CS degree and 15 years of dev experience, and have come to the conclusion that you can’t negotiate in good faith with Windows anymore. It is going to take you down whichever hellpath their biz-dev team demands, and any attempts to fight it are going to be undermined and replaced with a new set of hacks or a differeny gauntlet of dark patterns for a few months later.
Maybe LTSC and Enterprise versions are a bit better, where they might have to preserve the goodwill of big dollar corporate customers instead of chasing some trifling revenue hack, but do we as ordinary users on home/pro licenses not deserve the same respect? And even there, don’t those business customers have to spend undue effort crafting and deploying policies to cram the endless stream of spam back in the box?
- Comment on James 8 months ago:
Classic sulcata assholery.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Or deliver the UBI as a basket of subsidized services and goods.
If, for example, we chose socialized medicine instead of a $5000/year UBI, a landlord can’t very well say “Your rent is going up 30 tablets of lisinopril this month.”
