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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Concur. I had a Motorola MPx200 for a while. That thing was boss. This was solidly still in the feature phone era and people’s minds were blown by the fact that you could just do whatever you wanted with this thing and nobody did anything to stop you. Make your ringtone any .mp3 or .wav without having to pay the carrier store 99 cents. Make your home screen wallpaper anything. Just stick programs and games on it by connecting it to your PC and copying files over. Hook it up to anything with a normal for the time USB mini-B cable, not some $40 proprietary bullshit. Etc., etc. It was great.
And since it was a chunky flip phone I could answer a call by flicking into the air like a penny and catching it, because the inertia would snap the screen open.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Support for Windows 7 (SP1) was not pulled until January of 2020 for ordinary users. Extended support contracts ran until 2023.
For reference, Windows 10 came out in 2015. Users could, and absolutely did, completely skip Windows 8 entirely. Windows 7 was supported throughout essentially all of 8’s viable lifecycle because nobody wanted to use 8, and five additional years into Win10’s lifecycle.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Yes, and I distinctly remember people going around believing that Microsoft was going to save us all from the Apple/Google smartphone duopoly with this and deliver us unto freedom and the promised land. Fucking Microsoft, of all people.
All of us nerds who were involved in the prior Windows CE/Mobile/PocketPC debacle saw the inevitable coming from a mile off.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 5 days ago:
!printmything@lemmy.world
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 5 days ago:
There exist air conditioners with power outage recovery, and they’ve been around for decades. It’s usually labelled “automatic restart” on the spec sheet. This was already a solved problem before the Internet Of Shitty Things, and it seems that in your case some rat bastard went around and deliberately unsolved it.
Whoever that person is, we need to find him and give him a smart kick up the rear.
- Comment on Progress 6 days ago:
Well you see, they built that house entirely out of old computer cases nailed together.
- Comment on Sad but true 1 week ago:
Why doɇs this pɇrson fɇel the neɇd to randomly decoratɇ the letter Ɇ?
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
Oh, one other point of order on that as well: Obviously even if it’s not all bullshit (spoiler: it’s all bullshit), Revelation is supposed to be a prophecy of the end of times which obviously hasn’t happened yet. I’m pretty sure we would have noticed if it did, what with the sounding of the seven trumpets, the worldwide earthquake, the 200 million horsemen slaying a third of mankind, etc.
So even if it’s all somehow inerrantly true, the Devil hasn’t killed anyone yet.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
If we believe that the various Satans (in the original Hebrew, literally “adversary,” and rendered without the definite article so there are probably multiples of them) are in fact one and the same with the Devil (singular), this link-up doesn’t even occur until the Book of Revelation which is firmly a new testament thing and wholly unsupported by any of the old testament or ancient Hebrew sources from which it’s derived. Making all the assumptions required on basis that this is so, then whoever he was killed a lot of people in Revelation. But not until then.
In old Hebrew tradition, the Satans are sort of the prosecuting attorneys for god. They work for him in order to tempt the faith and righteousness of various people. Several mortal people are also given the moniker of “Satans” when they’re working against the interests of god or various other individuals.
Meanwhile, the notion that Lucifer is also one and the same with the Devil or any kind of Satan is a much later interpolation made when the church(es) of the era wanted to insert a bogeyman into their religion and they needed a justification for it, some time in the AD 200s. Lucifer is identified as the king of Babylon, a mortal, when he has attracted god’s ire in his sole appearance in Isaiah 14. The situation has become so warped that his name was finally removed in the New International Version of the bible and he’s simply referred to as the “morning star, son of the dawn.” (Isaiah 14:12, if you want to go have a look.)
Modern pontificates will also insist that the king of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 is also somehow the Devil, which is dubious. Even if he were, and god were speaking allegorically for precisely half of his rant as we are thus demanded to believe, god smokes him at the end of the passage anyway so it’s a moot point.
- Comment on Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program? 1 week ago:
Consider the IoT Enterprise LTSC builds. These come premade from Microsoft with less bloat (or none, in the case of the Win10 IoT version), and don’t shove the consumer features down your throat on every update because they’re designed for mission critical embedded applications.
I have 10 IoT LTSC running on most of our machines at work because a significant chunk of our hardware is not Windows 11 “ready” and we use many vendor-specific things that don’t work in Linux or Wine, and I use 11 IoT LTSC at home (locked to 23H2 so my Mixed Reality VR headset remains working!) without incident.
Without either of the above restrictions if I were you I would shop for a new mouse.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 weeks ago:
As far as video games go, an obvious answer is the Sims.
Perhaps only slightly less prominent is Shadow of the Colossus. Insofar as I know all of the spoken dialog is a nonsense fictional dialect that definitely isn’t Japanese, except possibly when calling your horse’s name. The language is based off of syllables and random bits from both Japanese and Latin with some of the syllables being spoken backwards, and with a kinda-sorta Japanese style cadence. But it’s utter gibberish, and only the subtitles make it intelligible.
- Comment on How often should moderators post to grow a community? 2 weeks ago:
Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though. Alexandrite makes their username bright green an bold, for instance.
I wonder what portion of users are turned off by stepping into a community and discovering that basically every post is from its only moderator, and thus feel that whatever-it-is is probably just that individual’s personal hobby horse.
Not that I’d know, or anything…
- Comment on 11 axel wtf. is that ai 2 weeks ago:
Either this exists and is at least drivable at low speed in a straight line, or the North Koreans have done a much better job than usual of creating the illusion that this is so.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb3PxNIZ9jk
It’s got to have a turning radius measured in counties. We may very well be witnessing its top speed, also.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
Crono needs a legendary sword that requires a time-hopping fetch quest to get all the ingredients. Frog requires a sword that’s already legendary, and a whole episode devoted to getting it powered up further. Marle, Luca, and even Magus require triple techs and in the case of the former two, a deliberate power up by Spekkio to even be able to access them in the first place.
…Ayla can merely punch people for 9999 damage.
- Comment on Which fly came first? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bet you this also has something to do with the terminology for the rain fly on a tent, most of which have the same kind of flap covering the zippers and/or openings.
- Comment on Organization. 2 weeks ago:
Other than the mixed up V, W, and Q keys I did this to one of those cheap and ghastly low-throw Dell keyboards that came with one of our computers and hooked it up to my boss’ machine.
…After first writing a custom Windows keyboard layout using the MSKLC tool and installing it on his machine to make it actually type that way, too.
A more subtle variation might be to swap a user’s period and comma keys and see how long it takes for that to piss them off.
- Comment on wish 3 weeks ago:
Or Delhi.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 weeks ago:
Not with no ammunition in it he won’t. Look closely.
- Comment on Update 3 weeks ago:
It’s worth it to name Barrett “T” in the original PSX translation of Final Fantasy 7 as well, only for the singular scene in which this makes him refer to himself as “Mr. T.”
- Comment on Update 3 weeks ago:
Mine name is Glenn! Cyrus’s hopes and dreams… And now the Masamune… Forthwith I shall slay Magus and restore honor!
As an aside and since I’ll never get to talk about this in context again, every time I play through Chrono Trigger I am exactly the asshole who names Marle as Nadia, Frog as Glenn, Robo as R-66Y, and Magus as Janus. Because being a time traveler, I already know.
It is kind of weird that so many of the main cast canonically go by pseudonyms in the story. Kind of a four nickels situation, I guess.
- Comment on Hospitallers - crusading the Levant since 1113 CE 3 weeks ago:
I like this ancient and crusty airsoft version better:
At least we only pretend to blow up hospitals.
(Pop quiz! Let’s how your client handles images that are a thousand feet tall.)
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Her, and him, and whoever!
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 3 weeks ago:
They meet Legolas, an Elven warrior who can’t hold his drink. He’s taking the place of his older brother, Armolas, who can’t hold his bow. Their younger brother, Arseolas, has already lost his seat on the council…
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 3 weeks ago:
They meet Legolas, an Elven warrior who can’t hold his drink. He’s taking the place of his older brother, Armolas, who can’t hold his bow. Their younger brother, Arseolas, has already lost his seat on the council…
- Comment on kya 3 weeks ago:
His is a bit higher quality than that one, and I have no idea where he got it. It’s made of closed cell foam and is indeed printed on both sides.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
I was not aware it was released in that packaging, but I’m pretty sure that’s still a Playstation 1 disk dressed up in a PS2 style DVD case, meant to be used with the PS2’s backwards compatibility mode. To my knowledge SotN was never rereleased as a native PS2 title and wasn’t rereleased at all until the PSP version. (And then later the Xbox 360 and PS4 as downloadable titles, and also the ghastly mobile phone versions.) If you have a PS1 kicking around you can try it and see, I suppose.
For what it’s worth my copy is the green-stripe “Greatest Hits” reprinting, so what it’s worth is alas not much.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
I’m just being that guy on the internet as usual, but Symphony Of The Night is a PS1 title, not PS2. I’m sure OP can run a PS1 emulator on his Deck if he wants to, though. It is a great game.
- Comment on kya 3 weeks ago:
My dad had a college friend who did this back in the 70s, using all electromechanical components. Relays and solenoids and so forth. Hey, they were engineering students, what do you expect? From what he described it didn’t use a drum to display the messages, but rather had an array of six or seven of them that popped up from below, like bread from a toaster. It fit on the platform between the back seat and rear window of his car.
As the story was recounted to me, he did get hassled by the cops for this at one point due to flipping up one of the more expletive laden signboards at an unmarked patrol car. Ultimately they couldn’t find anything to nail him for over it, though.
Meanwhile, my brother in law keeps one of these in the door pocket in his truck:
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Re: Final Fantasy games not tying together or having continuities.
Yes. Except, ironically, specifically Final Fantasy X, which had a direct sequel in X-2. Final Fantasy XIII also managed to have a direct sequel in Lightning Returns. Thankfully, if you care to think of it that way, it was crap and can be safely ignored.
Anyway, have an upvote for not blithely suggesting that everyone start with VII.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 was pretty close to the peak of the series if you ask me, and the PS2 version was the superior one. THPS4 also came out on the Playstation 2. I see you already have Underground on there.
If you’d like something you can handily use to consume the rest of your entire life, Disgaea and/or its sequel will probably do you.
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are also legendary. I haven’t tried in ages, I have no idea if modern emulators can get the latter to run at a non-crap frame rate. It’d be a lot nicer if so.
Odin Sphere is an often overlooked 2D action sidescrolling fighting thing wherein you Norse In The North and beat the shit out of absolutely everyone. Its sequel, Muramasa: The Demon Blade is much the same thing except therein you Ninja In The Night instead. The latter stayed locked to the Wii to my knowledge but the former was on the PS2.
The PS2’s library is quite vast. I’m not going to go looking this up to prove it right now, but I’m pretty sure it’s got the most titles ever released for a home video game console (i.e. not the PC) in history. Even just trying out unknown games at complete random, it’s likely to be able to keep you entertained in one way or another basically forever.
