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by drewzero1 3y ago
I think at that point we were still thinking of computers as expensive tools to be shared; it hadn't been that long since a computer took up a whole room and would be shared by all users in several businesses. We also weren't as c
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Lucky on the battery.. ours started swelling after about 7-8 years of heavy use, and made the trackpad click by itself. I think I also had to replace the display cable and one of the ram slots stopped working. Other than that it was a solid
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I was introduced to the character by way of Bertolt Brecht's Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg (Švejk in the Second World War)[0], which was meant as a sequel to Hašek's original and which I read in school- unfortunately too long ago
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I've just been reading this longer article from 2020 which has a lot more about his life: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lu... It says he went out with friends, saw movies
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I probably would have started a bit earlier, though admittedly the features I remember and care(d) about are only of interest to retrocomputing enthusiasts anymore. - 10.5 Leopard: Classic mode removed (can no longer run Mac OS 9 apps), won
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by drewzero1 3y ago
And busy streets once again knee-deep in manure? Horses aren't exactly zero-emission either. Though realistically, a lot more people walked. Not everybody could afford to feed or care for a horse.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Recently I was trying to create lightweight SVG images for an embedded project and was looking for exactly this type of thing. I ended up drawing them in Inkscape and then opening in a text editor to strip out everything that wasn't ne
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I was confused by the headline, because my own Macintosh Classic has 4MB with the expansion card. I seem to remember reading about people swapping or piggybacking RAM chips to upgrade earlier compact Macs where RAM was sorely lacking.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Easier to mess with or reinstall OS remotely if you're not sitting in front of it, I'd imagine. Also can be easier to back up the whole system or take a snapshot of the system state, or nuke it and start over if you really screw i
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by drewzero1 3y ago
My favorite home lab setup was when I had an old (originally XP, switched it to Ubuntu) laptop and a couple of USB drives in the top drawer of a scavenged file cabinet. I cut a hole in the back for the wires and it never generated enough he
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Or, more kindly, the featured article.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Or as social criticism! A lot of tech giants seem to be trying to bring about the techno-future of scifi and completely missing the point that a lot of it is a dystopian hellscape serving as a thin veil over commentary on contemporary socie
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I was using a Core2 Duo with 4GB as my main home computer until about a year ago, and while some sites made it run slowly (mostly recipe sites and others with a lot of video ads) it was certainly still usable. The trick was to keep the brow
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I had Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on boot floppies, they were both small enough to just copy the files into a DOS bootdisk and fit fine. However in my experience most of the programs that I wanted to run in Windows that wouldn't run in DOS r
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Good rundown... I was about to say I skipped the whole decade going from 80s and 90s cars directly to a 2010s car, but unlike the other mk6 Jettas the wagon version (my current car) was really just a heavily facelifted mk5. The mk4 Jetta wa
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I really wanted one of these when they came out. Now I'd much rather have one of their classic three-wheelers... The mid-2000s styling still looks okay but hasn't aged gracefully. (Or it might just be the silver paint that seemed
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I don't usually take the time to write out a daily to-do list, but I do keep one for long-term projects that I tend to lose track of. Each line is a task and at the beginning of the line is the date it was initiated/requested. It&
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Though the flavor text is heavily inspired by her works, the game doesn't reference any of them directly, and I think it stands pretty well on its own. It's not really specific to the Victorian era either, more of a general old-ti
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by drewzero1 3y ago
This is very timely for me as I spent last evening playing Obsession[1]- a board game based on courtship and prestige in (roughly) the era of Austen. They have a few specialized rule variations and one is named for Austen, in which the inte
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I think I kind of internalized that idea from my early soft eng courses; after seeing how efficiently a computer can find a result by cutting the set in half repeatedly, I've tried to apply that approach elsewhere when it fits.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I haven't seen the moon man but the vanishing point has a little door that closes over the nib when it's retracted.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
> months are not okay I was a big (cheap) fountain pen collector for a while and used them almost exclusively in school, but then I had a few jobs that didn't involve much writing and they kind of fell by the wayside. I'm still
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to watch and see if it gets Lineage eventually as I don't really care for Samsung's software, but by the time I'm ready to replace my OnePlus it might be a contender.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Exactly! I had really hoped that would catch on, but I only ever saw it on some Nokia Winphones and cheaper Androids. The glass back is one of my least favorite features of modern phones and metal isn't much better (pick your poison: s
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I had an iPhone 4 and then a 5c (same size as the 5). The 4 was usually fine, sometimes a bit cramped, but the 5c really hit the sweet spot for screen size and one-handed usability. Someday I hope someone makes a decent modern phone just li
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Oh, that makes so much more sense. For some reason I was thinking the reed switch was inside the button! Those coils are pretty strong.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Wow, and I thought my doorbell was complicated! I used an ESP-01 with a button to send an HTTP request to my home server, which would send me an XMPP message (to my phone and watch) and also send an HTTP request to another ESP01 which was c
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Note the first paragraph - it's not payment (or lack thereof) that is being called into question. It's a matter of availability. Despite the streaming companies' worldwide reach they can't (or won't bother to) get t
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by drewzero1 3y ago
My computer's battery lasts so much longer if I just don't use it.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
> without being nickel-and-dimed or having ads shoved in your face. Or, increasingly, both!

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