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vxo , vor 2 Tagen

@foone I need to get some of the dodgy mid 2000s floppies just so I can carry them around in my pocket and do that dramatic floppy wield as seen in Hackers

vxo , vor 4 Tagen

@foone what will be your keyboard's boot time

vxo , vor 4 Tagen

@foone if your deck doesn't grok it, mine might.

What made me think I'm the only one around here who has their own U-Matic? I kinda wish mine could record too though, I'd put video through it for aesthetic degradation

vxo , vor 4 Tagen

@foone if they need belts for it or repair, Zin VTR Works is fairly local

vxo , vor 8 Tagen

@timixretroplays this reminds me of a goofy thing I did once when somewhat deliriously exhausted and trying to revive an FM broadcast exciter. The old Harris Flexstar had a front panel USB port for saving the config and maybe also loading firmware - I forget. Anyway it only reliably worked with the original purple Lexar Jumpdrive, of which we had one or maybe two. I had a lobster claw clasp attached to it so I could hang it from the rack handles but suddenly it vanished!

vxo , vor 8 Tagen

@timixretroplays I was looking all over the place for the dumb thing and absolutely dreading having to fight with it instead of being able to just restore a known good state when I decided it was absolutely time for a break from all that.

I left and went to Denny's. The restroom mirror there answered all:

I had clipped the Jumpdrive to my collar and immediately forgotten about it.

There's something to be said about proper backup practices here, and whatever it is, it is very silly.

vxo OP , vor 10 Tagen

I also hella aged myself with that reference, geez, what was that, like 2000 or so?

https://youtu.be/c72d4-LpilM

There's also a version of this floating around where someone replaced it with clips of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, I think it was part of AMV Hell

vxo OP , vor 10 Tagen

oh here we go (Flashing lights warning!!!)
https://youtu.be/bdqOIju4lL4

vxo OP , vor 10 Tagen

https://youtu.be/XJw_ds3cz-M

Oh hell I'm Sakaki, aren't I?

vxo OP , vor 10 Tagen

I swear, Azumanga Daioh was not only such a wonderful series but it was also just the best thing for the budding Internet meme culture.

Raspberry Heaven.. I'm coming back to you...

vxo , vor 18 Tagen

@foone okay bonus Silly Points if when you do that you find that it delivers exported videos as a windows executable!

vxo , vor 18 Tagen

@foone the hilarious thing is, if it IS one of those boxes... well, few things will dig the video out of the container, but miraculously, uploading it to Youtube works!

Very, very, very strange.

vxo , vor 18 Tagen

@foone oh nice, you just hang a SCSI CD-R drive off the back

I think the ones I messed with were a little later and used USB media for export (?)

what's funny is I swear I've seen that same front panel design, we have one gathering dust at work somewhere

vxo , vor 19 Tagen

@foone that sounds unusually beautiful somehow
@rgegriff

vxo , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I've experienced this on a printer before. The sound it makes is horrifying.

vxo , vor 22 Tagen

@foone oh now you're just borrowing from the dark ages

vxo , vor 23 Tagen

@foone oh is that one of those bizarre trade show handouts where it basically just has enough storage for an autorun.inf (nooooo!) and a .url link file?

vxo OP , vor 26 Tagen

@foone nah she just happens to have the same height!

I have introduced some of my coworkers to the Smoot as a measurement, they are not as amused with it as we are

vxo , vor 26 Tagen

@foone does it also turn up a blank with DirectX? I seem to recall that requiring a different capture method

vxo , vor 27 Tagen

@foone not sure on HDMI but if you want to make a consumer grade DVD recorder refuse to touch a signal, just put some junk in the horizontal interval on the "front porch" or so

vxo , vor 27 Tagen

@foone years ago I had a ridiculous PC Chips motherboard in a 486 machine where for some reason it would suddenly reboot if it was under high CPU load without a bit of mouse or keyboard input.

Oh, to have been "blessed" by having the US sales outlet for them in town before online shopping was a thing. It was originally called BEK for some reason.
@kiwa

vxo , vor 26 Tagen

@foone this reminds me of how I became aware at some point that my Olympus E-PL2 camera's firmware update process for some reason involves using a special driver that causes something inside the camera to emulate a SCSI host adapter and storage device

I suspect this was done out of, uh, weird simplicity; there's not a whole ton of logic on a SCSI adapter.

vxo , vor 29 Tagen

@foone I have a bad habit of using a problem like this as an excuse to wire up a bunch of really cool looking arcade pushbuttons

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone it's the shrinkflation

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone That or count the number of heater cycles at the end of the drying cycle, and open the door to enter the desired letter.

If you graph the power consumption of a dryer you'll find this really weird PWM function; it starts out 100% duty cycle and starts to iterate downwards until it's done

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone i'm one of those weird aliexpress magnetic usb adapter/cable combos.

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone the what now? Is that Mini DisplayPort or something even sillier?

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone cursed-cable-genesis

vxo , vor einem Monat

@polpo Immediately, I started thinking of what camera API calls may be available to help with that process, and how you could find the best possible vsync timing via automatic detection of the black hum bar of doom.

If this were an ideal world you'd have a way to get the camera genlocked to the video source, but since there's no blackburst input on a smartphone....

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone @polpo that is a very good question... even if there's some delay inherent in it, you can calibrate that out

vxo , vor einem Monat

@fasterthanlime I've tossed rarcrack at one before with success

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone I used to make silly MegaHAL bots basically jump in a ring and battle each other, absolutely trashing their training as they go

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone terrible. Ridiculous. When do we start working on the prototype?

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone YES. that's what I keep getting stuck in

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone I basically created a meme around my workplace since like four of us are doing 3d printing and we're always messing with.......

The Nozzle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8yQhXDquII

vxo , vor einem Monat

@gooba42 panic("Splunge!"); was more useful than some other error messages I've run into.

Earlier today I had something that kept spitting "Access violation" over and over like a fountain. No details, not even any description of what function was throwing it.

On an unrelated note I want a big heavy leather collar that actually does serve as a grounding strap as suggested in that old story
@foone

vxo , vor einem Monat

@gooba42 if you haven't seen said story, here it is, it's glorious.
https://milk.com/true-stories/grounding_story.html
@foone

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone I'd go up an order of magnitude at least, you wouldn't need it that big for 3k. The little TV repair sized hv probes you probably saw around in various places are made for like 30

vxo OP , vor einem Monat

@foone hmm. There are days I wish I could just Wobbuffet. Not a human care in the world, just silly blue critter

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone ugh I would love to invite people to instead become keyboard builders! Leave the vintage hardware alone and instead score a custom keyboard that is exactly what you want it to be.

I want to build a nice split mechanical that looks like the neon shimmering on a rainy night. :3
@twylo

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone strange bubbling potion!!!

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone you have me tempted to merge graffiti art techniques into freehand PCB pieces, develop, then sneak in circuitry!

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone I love it!!

vxo , vor einem Monat

@foone I love your descriptions here so much