Damogran6

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by Damogran6 2y ago
I had PILES of CD-R and CD-RW from the turn of the century that are coasters now. Stored in the dry and dark...just absolutely unreadable. Oddly, the photo CDs I got professionally written were great.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I think Denver's status as a hub for IT, Telco, Aviation/Aerospace may skew things a bit, but the town is _lousy_ with Tesla products. Cybertruck included. And I think this period of time is going to be underscored by the guilt of
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by Damogran6 2y ago
You just need one.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I'm going to disagree. Moving to x86 moved to native windows compatibility speeds and was a massive boon to our security team. We could interact with everything in our Windows environment, use FOSS tools natively, and the support for b
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by Damogran6 2y ago
It's all fantastic until that one rotation of the waist...then it flys straight through the uncanny valley. It goes from 'observation of movement of an organic thing' to 'I'm calculating the most direct route betwee
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I've recently picked up a Macintosh SE...and they really got everything they could out of an 8Mhz 68000
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I figured this was going to be about Parrots and I got excited, because I have 3 of them and they're great when they're not being annoying...adorably. Then I see these aren't parrots, and that's cool too, because birds -
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I took that to be massive decomming of drives
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I've been buying and restoring older stuff (2013 Mac Pro most recently, recapped a Mac SE before that) and I think you just gave my 99 4/a new life. Thanks for that!
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I have one. It was the first computer that was completely mine. I was disappointed in what the embedded basic could give me...it was slow, it had sprite-only graphics exposed (couldn't draw a vector from X,Y to X,Y) and my parents only
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I'm fully straddling both. I loved successfully recapping a Macintosh SE and restoring a Lathe from 1964. I was mentally counting the execution threads in the processors in the house, got up into the upper 50's and chuckled going
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by Damogran6 2y ago
It's a common feeling to think the people that came before you were somehow less smart and talented. When my now grown kids were younger, I pulled the back off a cassette tape player. The belts and gears and cams and the like were comp
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I use gloves when chopping up peppers. Don't want that capsaicin getting under the fingernails and then anywhere else mucosal membrane. Which is to day: It'd be good for bags you don't want to handle very much.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I like the part where I don't die of dysentery and lose two children on the trip.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
It's why I typically travel by RV whenever I can. ;) It's not fast, but it's a clean bathroom, great beer, and a really big suitcase I don't have to unpack.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
In pragmatic terms, I can be in a tiny town in Virginia at 4am, and then be in another tiny town in Washington state in about 12 hours...how much faster does it have to be?
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by Damogran6 2y ago
The services go through phases (I suspect depending on botnet activity)...Middle of the day, Threads is a fun place to hang, 9pm? It's a wall of anxiety producing ragebait, 2am? It's even worse. Looking at it on my phone, if I can
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by Damogran6 2y ago
The proper response to scientific criticism is to archive what came before. This is a heavy handed attempt to remove from view science they don't agree with. This is not a 'removal of DEI from government' this is the attempte
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by Damogran6 2y ago
Twitter wasn't purchased for it to make money, it was purchased to get Musk in the Whitehouse.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
FWIW, with today's social media environment...I'm ACTIVELY managing the ways I'm interrupted. Having that in front of my field of view is a non starter. I'm an early adopter, but even at that, I don't use VR a whole
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by Damogran6 2y ago
It's idle fantasy speculation...like reading Popular Science and Popular Mechanics as a kid (with a similar hit rate on speculative future stuff...)
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by Damogran6 2y ago
The cameras are needed for inside-out positioning. Now...outward facing screens displaying my face? Billet Aluminum frame?
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by Damogran6 2y ago
Man, does THAT sum up the current political climate in America. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes g
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by Damogran6 2y ago
Drones are one of those things that _should_ be something I dig...but I never seem to pull the trigger because it seems like a big imposition on the other people in the same space experiencing the same things you are. Moab was a great examp
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by Damogran6 2y ago
Not the OP, but I've had great experience with Aura frames...Costco sells them each year on the run-up to Christmas.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I found a harddisk with a ton of ripped MiniDV footage of the kids when they were young. What I value most isn't the kids. Sure, they're adorable and I have a ton of snapshots from them...but it's things like 'oh, we had
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by Damogran6 2y ago
As I understood it, you're also on the hook for valuing yourself properly. You may think you're making more money, until you factor in vacations and medical and retirement and slack time and...and...and
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by Damogran6 2y ago
It's part of the enshittification cycle. I'd been a Nikon camera user and figured I'd upgrade...reviewing Nikon, Cannon and Sony, the new startup...Sony was the only body at that pricepoint that also had a motor in the body t
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I was really good at the random dot stereograms. This is a really cool recasting of that skillset.
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by Damogran6 2y ago
I think this was the point where they started looking not at ticket sales, but overall lifetime earnings per family...sure, it's the ticket, then the DVD, then the BluRay, then the Extended BlueRay, then the Criterion Edition (with Sti

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