WoodenChair

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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Can you link me to the specific adapter you're using? The thing is after doing so many, I know the adapter I use is compatible and has no issues. I buy now direct in bulk over AliExpress but here is the equivalent Amazon listing: http
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
I find a USB stick the most convenient and load some software on CDs. No, Mac OS 9 is not based on BSD. Only Mac OS X+ is. No development tools come with it out of the box (unless you consider AppleScript). Programming for the classic Mac O
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
It can be a challenge under DVI->HDMI. People have had more luck under DVI->VGA. It also can vary from monitor to monitor. There is a long thread on the macos9lives.com forums about this issue: https://macos9lives.com/
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Some configurations have built-in 56K modems, but not all. I have never tested it under the hacked Mac OS 9. I would search the forums on macos9lives.com where the hack originates.
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barely load anything. There are still some sites that are designed to work on these o
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
They all have Ethernet ports. So, yes you can hook them up to a wired router and play co-op. The vast majority of games are either going to be abandonware or buying old jewel cases on eBay.
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
When customers are checking out they have the option to choose USPS, UPS, etc. I've seen prices to Canada be more for USPS than UPS. Shopify handles most of this. I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw ship
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
I do ship to Canada, but unfortunately the (auto-calculated by Shopify/UPS/DHL/USPS) international shipping prices are quite high (I've seen about $30 to Canada and $50 to Germany in the past). Plus in some countries the
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
I am yet to hear about 1 dying from a customer. But I can't give you a scientific answer to that and I've only been doing this since April. There's a whole community of people doing these upgrades. You can find them at https
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
This is a great comprehensive article on the "why" and there are good YouTube videos on the "how." What the article is missing that makes it even better is putting an SSD in which makes it even faster of course. You can
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Fun Computer Science Projects in Python(github.com)
3 points by WoodenChair 2y ago|0 comments
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Yeah it's a great book. It definitely gets into the weeds about his family and personal life (as a comprehensive biography should). Personally, I enjoyed that stuff, but if you just want to learn about how he did hard stuff as the OP d
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> Surprising to some, this is the literal definition. I don't think it's surprising to anyone that speaks English what the definition of concurrency in everyday language is. It is not the same as the computer science definition
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Unfortunately this starts with a definition of concurrency quoted from the Python wiki [0] which is imprecise: "Concurrency in programming means that multiple computations happen at the same time." Not necessarily. It means multip
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
The high price was also justified by the success of WebObjects at the time, which was seen as a potential fuel for an IPO for NeXT, even though WebObjects was not what Apple was buying it for. This Computer History Museum article goes into
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
It's not really that the computer itself is retro, it's that people use it for retro computing because it's pretty much the fastest Mac you can get that can still run Mac OS 9 (1999). People then run games and apps from syste
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
I think I can speak to this a bit since I run a hobby business[0] selling restored Mac mini G4s (originally from 2005) with a hacked version of Mac OS 9 on them from Mac OS 9 Lives so that retro computer users (people still using production
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> Dark chocolate often has very high sugar levels. Milk chocolate usually has higher sugar levels than dark chocolate.
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> The “store of value” functionality has completely eclipsed the practical use that Bitcoin maxis were preaching back then. Right, but that use case could be enough to see the price continue to increase. Gold is also generally used as a
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
How do you know this?
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> You don't say. And maybe it would look a little less greedy if that dividend were slightly smaller, but you guys make them sell the Ford Fiesta in the US instead? What do you mean "you guys make them." Individual tiny sh
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> I don't want to keep funding Ford and GM shareholder greed. As a long suffering Ford stockholder, I'd like to understand what you mean by "shareholder greed." Go look at a 30 year chart of their stock price. It&#x27
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Manning let me conduct an interview with Brian a few years ago for my book with them. Here is the transcript: https://freecontent.manning.com/interview-with-brian-goetz/ He was very generous with his time and there are
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> While there may be a legacy Linux running in a VM to manage all your cloud phoning spyware, the core functionality of the lifelike device is boot to neural network. No, I do not think future devices will be "boot to neural network
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
> To draw this conclusion one would have to assume that companies are measuring productivity correctly. Or that the companies are acting rationally, and we know that's never always true. So is your argument that bad management is so
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Are you actually going to reply to the substance of my comment or just do a Reddit like sarcastic reply? Yes, I am middle age and have worked for multiple companies. I've seen co-workers, friends, and even family abuse the opportunity
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Anecdotally, knowing many people that work from home, there is definitely abuse of the system. And those people are ruining it for the rest of us! But it would be absurd to think that if everyone was really more productive at-home, companie
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by WoodenChair 2y ago
Yes, he’s what I’ve termed an Apple apologist: https://www.observationalhazard.com/2021/08/apple-apologetic...
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Introductory Programming Assessment Must Accommodate LLM Assistants (2022)(observationalhazard.com)
1 points by WoodenChair 2y ago|0 comments

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