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by einr 8y ago
I use Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Google Container and Decentraleyes and am not signed into Google. ReCAPTCHA is an absolute nightmare under these conditions. It's sad because there is one site I absolutely need that ha
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by einr 8y ago
Yeah, agreed, this trend has got to go. Unusable. I immediately closed the tab. When not even reader mode helps, you've lost me. So I see your link, and I raise you this link to just a normal JPG: https://upload.wikimedia.or
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by einr 8y ago
The maze is random and will regenerate when you execute the program, so you need to be lucky to pull that off. I mean, you can just reload until it works, and I think that is a solution within the spirit of the game too, but quite an ineleg
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by einr 8y ago
Not sure what was bad about the DOS and Windows compatibility? OS/2 was frequently touted as "better DOS than DOS, better Windows than Windows" and it was generally true. You could multitask DOS apps (lots of people used this
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by einr 8y ago
So what exactly is the great stable commercial alternative in the 90s? OS/2 was pretty solid...
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by einr 8y ago
A centralized system will tend to behave more efficiently than a distributed system If that was always true, we literally would not even have the Internet. Centralized, corporate networks like TYMNET died like flies once the open, distrib
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by einr 8y ago
I don't think that altering the technical details regarding the implementation of HTML, CSS et al would do much of anything to stop the proliferation of walled gardens and spyware.
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by einr 8y ago
The only real difference is Facebook doesn’t offer an internet service Well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org
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by einr 8y ago
UNIX is not a mainframe OS. It was developed for minicomputers. As was VMS, by the way.
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by einr 8y ago
It's referring to 8088/8086 machines that ran MS-DOS but were not 100% IBM PC compatible. Stuff like the Amstrad PC 1512 (an 8086 machine with proprietary graphics) and the DEC Rainbow 100 (a very expensive and versatile dual-CPU
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by einr 8y ago
I've been using Firefox exclusively ever since it was Firebird 0.7, every day, on scores of computers using Linux and BSD and Windows from 95 to 10, and I just don't remember it ever really crashing. I'm sure it's happen
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by einr 8y ago
...and also by still having a keyboard with a fixed and standardized layout, which Jobs' argumentation conveniently ignores. I'd like to see how much of a success the Macintosh would have been with just a mouse ;)
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by einr 8y ago
That's cool, but I think that most people here agree that mice are a pretty terrible method of interfacing with a computer. I think mice are excellent, and I think their longevity has proven that people like them, understand well how
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by einr 8y ago
Of course, you are completely wrong as other posters have pointed out -- CD is indeed a fully digital format (but it does not have a filesystem, just a continous stream of binary data with a TOC section near the beginning of the disc to tel
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by einr 8y ago
And there was also DCC, the Digital Compact Cassette. DAT, of course, saw reasonable success in the recording industry for transferring 2-track digital lossless audio to and fro studios and such before CD burners were commonly available. DC
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by einr 8y ago
It would have been a Megadrive cart then, because the Saturn used... you guessed it, CD's ;)
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by einr 8y ago
SanDisk still makes the Sansa Clip which satisfies your requirements and takes microSD cards. I have a previous generation of the same, it's a very nice device that does (mostly) one thing and does it well. https://www.sandi
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by einr 8y ago
This has nothing to do with the technical characteristics of the format.
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by einr 8y ago
Small correction: the CD sample rate is 44.1 kHz. A perfectly recorded metal tape (I believe metal tapes are no longer manufactured) in a very high-end deck can maybe reach 20 kHz under optimal conditions. For normal cheap-o ferric tape you
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by einr 8y ago
Rotating plastic that relies on sensitive optics? I mean, that sounds fragile when you put it like that, but in reality you can go to any thrift store and pick up a 1988 CD player and a 1982 CD and it will more than likely play perfectly.
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by einr 8y ago
The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price rang
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by einr 8y ago
Yeah, I used to have verbatim mode as a separate and default search provider in Firefox, but I had to stop using it as my default -- I find sometimes it's just too verbatim and it's like using Altavista in 1996 all over again. I f
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by einr 8y ago
It feels like the philosophy has become "return lots of results at any cost". For instance I just now searched for a specific e-mail address that ends with "@hotmail.co.jp" -- since it didn't find any hits with the
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by einr 8y ago
NeXT won the desktop Really? Mac OS has maybe 15% desktop market share.
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by einr 8y ago
I once watched a video on how to replace a specific part on my car. Now Youtube thinks my biggest interest is how to replace and repair every other thing on that same model of car, other models by the same make, etc.
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by einr 8y ago
So maybe not the NES console, those are still only moderately pricy even in mint condition due to the extreme number of consoles made, but certainly if you bought a stack of Little Samsons and Mr. Gimmicks and Panic Restaurants for $39 each
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by einr 8y ago
NES and SNES games in good condition or of higher rarity regularly fetch hundreds of dollars on eBay and the like, and retro game collecting has grown enormously popular compared to ten or fifteen years ago.
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by einr 8y ago
Two words: Headphone jack
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by einr 8y ago
Would it be possible to efficiently transfer the heat into the air without using fans? Because having a bunch of GPU fans on full blast in your living room is not an option. Electrical heaters are silent and need to be.
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by einr 8y ago
Briefly attempted to read more about this on IBM's site (linked in the article), had to close the tab immediately to retain my sanity. Seriously, LOOK at this: https://i.imgur.com/an7857N.png I have a 1920x1080 24&qu

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