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The allowance for RDP/VNC and similar also kinda negates all this, imo. There is also no frequency restriction. You can (and I did) clock something like a single core Conroe-L Celeron 430 that is normally 1.8ghz to ~3-4ghz (I managed ~
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These challenges always crack me up. Unless you are doing a couple specific things that really stress hardware (higherend graphics work, audio work, video work, that sort of thing) you should be able to do 99% of everything on the listed
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Finally. I want something like this for video. I’ve been hoping it’ll get added to topaz because I want kill freaking TV channel logos etc
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Yep. Talked to him this morning. He was actually far enough north from the epicenter that it he didn’t even feel it heh. Glad yours is Ok too!
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Seeing a Gunstar on the cover gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling :)
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Still nothing on my end. How about your team member?
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I normally would agree but he is usually online at these times due to work schedule etc :/
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I have a friend in Turkey. They haven’t been online for an hour or so. Hoping they are ok :(
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I still have CalmiraXP on my childhood i386. It’s great lol
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I refuse to buy or even play any game that requires an internet connection for /non-online/ play. It's complete bullshit and people REALLY need to vote with their damn wallets and stop supporting this sort of overreach.
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Contiki has always amazed me. One of my future projects has porting it to some random old system I like and expanding the functionality on it. Maybe even I retire. sigh
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That is so damn pretty. I love the older machines.
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god, I miss my NeXTs. This pains me everytime I see it, lol.
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No shit? I even specified that? I wasn't complaining specifically about the volt but in general with the direction everyone has/is moving.
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ah, I had conflated the models then. That at least is good to know.
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capacitive meaning a surface that registers your touch through capacitance change caused by your skin touching the surface. Like how basically all modern touchscreen works.
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As someone who has literally cut and crimped fuel lines to cut off a cylinder, used JBWeld to temp seal heads and blocks, pulled injectors, disconnected spark plugs etc etc to get something to limp back home.. yep. My main beef with EVs (an
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The safety crap with Teslas is one of my main gripes.. No haptic feedback /capacitive/ turn signals etc? wtf?
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Probably so :) I've heard tale of those glorious places with no/almost no meetings. looks wistfully into the horizon
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I hate working on teams because my time is constantly taken up with and interrupted by "meetings" and meetings to plan meetings, and bullshit meetings for more meetings about meetings. And then I have to involve all these random p
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Can you imagine it on like the Tapwave Zodiac? I wish i kept mine. Palmos game system. Analog joystick and all. Was so awesome.
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What’s great, too, about the been tube version is that both CPUs are actually used. At least with the dual 6502 version. I’m assuming the ARM may be a bit different.
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Always wanted a cybiko. Had a jornada 720! Great devices for the time. The game is very colorful. I loved it. Here’s the original website for it. http://www.harbaum.org/till/palm/elite/index.html And apparent
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Space trader for palmos is the bomb! I spent way way too many hours playing that. .. I may have that on my current android phone using a palmos emulator. There’s also an actual android port of it too though. Did you ever get to play the lea
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Amusingly, I had similar thoughts. This sort of things blows my mind. Such an impressive amount of lnowledge and work.
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And who is surprised?
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This is disgusting and I love it
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How in the hell can a Mac Pro cost that much? goes to Apple’s online store
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I’m 99.999% sure they are just being a dick about the copyright notices :p
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UIs these days have terrible icons and amazing amounts of wasted screen space. I don’t get it. Everything is so sterile and “modern” as others have mentioned.
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