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by einr 8y ago
Yes, the fastest 486 systems could just barely do full-quality 44.1/16 MP3 decoding (DX4/100, etc) Even then a DOS player was a better bet than Winamp. A SE/30 would be absolutely screwed.
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by einr 8y ago
the window you use to run command.com was for DOS programs only. This is not strictly true. You could launch Windows programs from the DOS box. If you tried to run something like PBRUSH.EXE from true DOS you would get "This program
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by einr 8y ago
Very many artists don't play live, and of those that do, even fewer make any reasonable money from it... so failing that, Bandcamp is where it's at. As (also) an artist who sells on Bandcamp, I think their model is unquestionably
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by einr 8y ago
It's also lightning fast, unlike Google Docs. It's seriously mind-boggling how far we've regressed that we're running Javascript word processors on eight core 3 GHz machines and yet are arguably worse off in terms of per
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by einr 8y ago
you’ve reached the end of your new feed This was actually a nice, user-friendly addition for once. But it's pretty much a cure for a disease that they invented themselves; the removal of the strictly chronological feed.
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by einr 8y ago
You could easily outsource ad sales while still serving the images unobtrusively from your own server.
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by einr 8y ago
Good idea, but they are not tech companies, so they likely lack the ability to do so. They'd best gain the ability, then, or fade into irrelevance and die. And honestly, we're talking about serving a few images from their own we
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by einr 8y ago
More functional than and just as reliable as what? There are thousands and thousands of headphone models with the standard plug, many of which are arguably much more functional and reliable.
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by einr 8y ago
I mean, I guess... Apple is always early when it comes to killing stuff. But as late as 2016 you could still buy a new MacBook Pro with a DVD drive.
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by einr 8y ago
We'll just have to agree to disagree, then, because I find that there are zero advantages to Bluetooth in this case. I mean, wireless would be nice in an ideal world where there are no disadvantages, but for me, they are so hefty that
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by einr 8y ago
They were removed only when few people used them because there was a better alternative. Many, many people use headphones with 3,5 mm plugs and it is not at all clear that the alternative is better.
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by einr 8y ago
You could even use an older iPhone if innovation frightens you in general Putting aside your unnecessarily snarky tone, it is not innovation to remove something from a phone. It's just not. Get/use headphones with the new style
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by einr 8y ago
With support for Windows 7 Professional ending in 2020, I'm not sure where to go from here. Maybe you'll be able to do what some folks did with Windows XP and use a registry hack to trick Windows into receiving security patches
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by einr 8y ago
Nitpicking, but this is not a VESA mode, it is plain VGA mode 12h (640x480x16).
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by einr 8y ago
But it also used to be that new Windows versions came out around every three years so by the time you needed a new computer, you'd be paying the Windows tax again anyway. In practice, not a lot of difference.
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by einr 8y ago
If you use Windows 7 on modern processors (Ryzen/Skylake), Windows Update stops working so you won't get security updates.
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by einr 8y ago
You think that's bad? Try Office 97 on 46 floppies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o6NQmEA-8 (Yes, this was a real, official thing that was available from Microsoft)
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by einr 8y ago
Hey, I actually have your Gopher client installed on my Windows machine. Great work!
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by einr 8y ago
There was, but not so much on PC compatibles.
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by einr 8y ago
Gopher is still a thing in certain parts of the enthusiast scene. Notably, https://gopher.floodgap.com/ has been running since 1999 and is still going. It's accessible through a HTTP(S) gateway nowadays too since all c
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by einr 8y ago
PC floppies come in 3.5" or 5 1/4" ;)
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by einr 8y ago
It's a Photoshop alternative , not a Photoshop replacement . A bike can be an alternative to a car, but does not replace all its functions.
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by einr 8y ago
Not only that, but they also apparently recompiled Linpack with the Intel compiler -- which is notorious for favoring Intel chips -- before running the benchmarks. Some really shady stuff going on here.
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by einr 8y ago
Very likely it is the Dead Mall Series by Dan Bell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx...
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by einr 8y ago
You must have had at least 12 MB of RAM ;) The installer flat out refuses to continue if it detects less memory than that.
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by einr 8y ago
Windows NT 3.1, the first version, required 12 MB RAM.
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by einr 8y ago
I believe the traditional usage is something like this: Helvetica is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic is a font.
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by einr 8y ago
since Windows 7. I agree with your main point, but putting the cutoff at Windows 7 is extremely generous. Already by then it was doing absolutely insane things like hiding the actual name of the "Program files" folder and instea
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by einr 8y ago
Yes, probably -- before digital cameras, there were still video cameras. They used a CCD to record still video images onto magnetic media such as a video floppy disk. So a lot like a digital camera, but fully analog. These were pretty cutti
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by einr 8y ago
MS didn't even have a product to sell Microsoft BASIC was the original Microsoft product, written by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1975. It was already wildly successful and the default microcomputer BASIC dialect by the time they had

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