ObsoleteNerd

10 ms·

61.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
McMeatless.
62.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
My start was ~91-92 in NL too, playing with a DTMF generator on payphones on the walk to/from school. We had more luck with the phones in hotel/museum foyers as they were usually not updated as often. I remember hanging out at the
63.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Yeah I've had a MFC-L2740DW for something like 7 years now, and it's an absolute beast. It was like AUD$250 or something on sale, does printing/scanning/copying/etc, has wifi, and works on all our devices flawlessly
64.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
It’s still being updated on their website, just not on GitHub: https://youtube-dl.org/
65.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I get this when I visit the OP link: > Your browser doesn't support SharedArrayBuffer, thus ffmpeg.wasm cannot execute. Please use latest version of Chromium or any other browser supports SharedArrayBuffer.
66.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Having done basically this same project before (but just adding amber LED indicators, no MCU) I’m a bit confused over the use of the sensors vs a relay on the existing indicator wiring. Was it to save from splicing into the factory wiring?
67.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
As someone who is seriously immune-compromised and also gets social anxiety, masks are the best thing to happen to me in a long time. I get none of the claustrophobia or breathing restrictions some people talk about and find masks perfectly
68.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I feel like it’s just that those of us who had our formative years in the 1980-2000 range are finally old enough and have enough disposable income to collect the things we could never afford back then and/or the things we loved and wis
69.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I live in a rural city in Australia and get 95% of my Amazon deliveries within 2 days of buying it (whereas most other online stores take a week or so), and have also found their range to be pretty extensive. Sure it’s not as big as the US
70.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
That's ridiculously cool.
71.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
As a physically disabled person who can’t leave the house much, I beg to differ. VR has already improved my outlook on life immeasurably.
72.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I wasn't quite as invested as you but pretty similar (KS backer, DK1 + DK2, banned from FB for refusing to send a copy of my drivers license, and now despise them with every inch of my soul)... but if anything this has motivated me to
73.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I absolutely love my Synology NAS. The photos function and the Video one especially. Being able to access all the videos on my NAS from any computer/phone/tablet in the house and have them transcode in real-time to suit the device
74.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Yeah I’ve stuck with MP3s since the days when you could only download 1 per night. I’ve been made fun of uncountable times by friends and strangers alike, but I’ve never had my music-listening not work, no matter what device/OS.
75.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
It might sound naive, but as a user of these services for the last couple years, I only just recently learned this. Eg that they take a cut of each food item on top of their delivery fee. I always assumed the delivery fee was their cut. It
76.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
This is pretty freaky, but after the OP link mentioned having a running BBS I was wondering how I’d go about finding other current BBSes, and on my third “Surprise Me” click on Wilby it gave me this: http://www.synchro.net/s
77.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Spot on. I’ve tried to merge the two ideas for my kids, I’ve got a NAS filled with shows, movies and music, and playlists that shuffle each so they can get some randomness and not just watch/listen to the same few repeatedly. We work p
78.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Same. Made my first website in ~95 or so. I remember getting so excited when we could finally change the colours of links, and distinctly remember even back then people saying “this is the beginning of the end for usability on the web, how
79.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Yeah that’s a particularly brilliant line.
80.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I’m (slowly) working on an old-school manually-curated index of websites that I think have that “soul” of the old web. Many aren’t old, and lots are even using the latest in web technologies, but the common theme is “someone put time and ef
81.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
It uses the Archive.org API for the actual cached websites, but I love all the other stuff added to the site, and the overall experience on the front page. The creator’s page has a great little rant too which I agree with intensely: http:&
82.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
> One of the issues we have in the US is that telecoms charge the recipient for these calls, not the originator. In some (many? most?) other countries that's reversed and such activities are much less prevalent. Here in Australia th
83.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Nope, I used to when I was an active reddit user but I stopped using RES when I nuked my reddit accounts.
84.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Seems to still work for now, but they’ve also removed the ability to sort comments in the old version, and stripped other features. While they say they won’t “remove” old.reddit.com they’re doing their damnedest to make it annoying/use
85.
Reddit now requires an account to read the comments
32 points by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago|19 comments
86.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
The sheer depth/breadth of Youtube's maker scene is awe inspiring. There's orders of magnitude more people creating/restoring stuff on Youtube than there are people destroying stuff. The number of channels dedicated to r
87.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Yeah I never went to college/uni and got my first job in IT due to doing web/graphic design projects on the side of my non-IT job. Then after getting sick of front-end/design I started coding back-end side projects and taught
88.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Flirc, Argon Neo, then all the generic billet Aluminium passive cases, all of which are in the ~$20-25 AUD range (whereas this one is almost $50 AUD). This stinks of blogspam to try sell their new overpriced case. Not to mention, like you
89.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
But there’s still a core group of people willing to put up with that and use F-Droid, and having the app used by that group of enthusiasts is better than it not being used at all. Considering this app is used a lot on older secondary phones
90.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
The minimal-meat thing for me personally is about environmental sustainability and ethics, so not really something I’m willing to sway from. If anything I’m constantly moving more towards less and less meat, even if the opposite could help

More ›