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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

Dieses Profil is von einem föderierten Server und möglicherweise unvollständig. Auf der Original-Instanz anzeigen

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This is what I see when people show off their 40% keyboards:

https://botsin.space/@computerchroniclesbot/112599998670811573

Asymmetricblue ,
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@foone With the right key caps…

HopperMCS ,
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@foone
Yeah but you can mod the hell out of the speak & spell keyboard

foone , an Random Englisch
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Copying a megabyte of files onto an eeprom takes a while. Maybe next time I should bring a USB flash drive that isn't a joke

foone OP ,
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@annealytics it looks like it's vaping

annealytics ,
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@foone 🚬 Oh no, now I can't unsee that and I have to encounter this same computer again tomorrow.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Alternate universe where Redbox launched in 1994 and didn't rent movies, but PC CD-ROM games

foone OP ,
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@vga256 it comes with the usual "don't rock the machine!" warnings but in this case, it's not because it'll fall on you: it's because you might coaster the CD-r

vga256 ,
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@foone the terror of touching the single trackball during a burn and pushing the cpu beyond 99% 😬

i agree. some technologies are too advanced for us

foone , an Random Englisch
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I don't think anyone has built a keyboard that works over the PC gameport

Yet

Batronyx ,
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@foone I presume you don't count all of those tedious letter selection screens for entering your name and whatnot?

commodork ,

@foone , Put down the Red Bull.

foone , an Random Englisch
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I've been trying to google/amazon this and having basically no results, so I'm asking here in case anyone knows:

I need graph paper. Specifically I need LARGE graph paper. Like, not an A4 sheet, I need A1-A0 (24/33" or 33x46").
4x4 per inch, or 5x5 per inch grid spaces. I basically need a graph paper with a TON of squares, and I'm not finding it.

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@foone

ANSI D is very common (22x34) plot
ANSI E is pretty common (34x44) plot

II think most printshops can plot that big, most plotters can print 36".

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@foone its gone

foone , an Random Englisch
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a twitch streamer who has a 2D or 3D animated avatar on screen. They're writing C++ code with virtual inheritance

it's a vtuber vtable!

bk1e ,
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@foone Virtual inheritance? Who’da thunk it?

mcc ,
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@foone I would go so far as to call it a veritable vtuber vtable

foone , an Random Englisch
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repaired, cleaned up, and re-capped a 68-key keyboard.

It had a keyswitch broken, and a few missing caps, so I repaired it and stuck some new caps on it.

foone OP ,
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@wantyapps why would they be off?

VisibleReality ,
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@foone this is far too normal of a keyboard post for you to make

foone , an Random Englisch
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I found an amazon listing that is for an "HD DVD player"

by which they mean a DVD player that supports HD output, because it's an upscaler.

YALL KNOW HD-DVD IS A DIFFERENT THING, RIGHT?

griibor ,
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@foone Eventually, you're gonna find a hd-dvd player that doesn't have any hd outputs on it to complete the set.

danherbert ,
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@foone The 3 people who purchased HD-DVD movies would be very upset if they needed this.

foone , an Random Englisch
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My temp job hasn't been able to have any hours for me for about a month, thanks to technical issues (I can't exactly run the scanner if the scanner is broken!), so I'm kinda completely broke at the moment.
If you've got a spare couple of dollars, it'd really help me get to the next paycheck.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone , an Random Englisch
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I wonder how illegal it would be if you opened up a VHS rental store today, and had unofficial VHS copies of modern films, dubbed from either Netflix or uhd 4k blurays

foone OP ,
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@griibor not really. VHS tapes are helical scan rather than linear like compact cassettes, so you can't really make an adapter

griibor ,
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@foone I was thinking.

I assume the head's too big to put in the cassette at the right angle, even ignoring how you'd power the thing.

foone , an Random Englisch
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The kinda counterpart to the Torment Nexus is that sometimes as a writer you're not really trying to write a cautionary tale so much as thinking that if the Torment Nexus did exist, you personally would not be able to resist it, and would have a lot of fun (and probably screw up your life big time) abusing the Torment Nexus.

So you're writing about the Torment Nexus because it doesn't exist and writing about it is as close as you can get to being able to play with it.

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@foone sigh. Looks around at the pile of unfinished Torment Nexuses and wishes he could actually finish a project before getting distracted.

Incidentally, TIL the accepted plural of Nexus is Nexuses and am extremely unhappy it isn't Nexii as all logic says it should be! 😡

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I'm disappointed that progress in dial up modems seems to have stopped around 2002. You can buy a PCIe modem and it'll be 56k just like the PCI modem you bought back in 2000!

We should invest more into improving modems that work over plain old telephone lines.

scott ,

@foone does 10BASE-T1L not count?

foone OP ,
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@scott no, it doesn't run over phone lines. I should be able to dial in

foone , an Random Englisch
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Oh come on, America! It's not THAT bad of a programming language!

k8rgrl ,
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@foone let's just wait till befunge v united states lol

foone OP ,
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@k8rgrl oh I so want Brainfuck to get involved in a supreme court case.
Or better yet, dickcode, the Brainfuck dialect where all the operators are ascii penises

foone , an Random Englisch
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I could go down the long rabbithole of figuring out how to call g*mp's image manipulation tools from a commandline or API, or getting imagemagick installed on this PC and figuring out how to port it over there...

or I could be silly and take advantage of the fact that I'm applying gamma ramps to an 8-bit greyscale image. What's the difference between the "before" and "after" images? a different palette.

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@foone
I think that's why I slid over into computer science, that satisfaction that comes when you see a solution working before your eyes.

SkipHuffman ,
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@foone wrong order

foone , an Random Englisch
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Based on this idea:
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/112572811010797144

How about an email client that uses Glide, the 3DFX 3d rendering library?
Specifically targeting the voodoo 2. (I know it's PCI, but there are PCI->PCIe adapters).

The OS can't screenshot it because the OS has no idea what pixels are there!

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@foone or a smart speaker hears your crt sweeping

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@foone Ad 1.: Isn't this what Dear Imgui does, just with OpenGL instead of Glide? Or am I mistaken?

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