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by myself248 2mo ago
Or SSTV! I recall a demo years ago where someone had SSTV running between a speaker at the focus of a small dish, across to the room to another small dish with a microphone...
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by myself248 2mo ago
As someone who spent years designing wiring harnesses for prototype and test vehicles, I am so tired.
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by myself248 2mo ago
Oh, this just popped into my head. If you want an early piece about global warming, I submit Metropolitan Nightmare : https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare
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by myself248 2mo ago
"shake us off" sounds more like George Carlin: > We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Ju
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by myself248 2mo ago
My favorite mod player. Galaxy 2.12 (GLX212.ZIP on Simtel et al), runs on 8086's just fine.
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by myself248 2mo ago
An awful, awful, awful lot of consumers think their old antennas don't work now that everything's gone digital. And they've simply never tried.
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by myself248 2mo ago
GNU Radio?
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by myself248 2mo ago
I've had 12-volt-input power supplies for every laptop I've ever owned. Lind makes the most reliable ones, but they're expensive, and there's a thriving aftermarket of alternatives too. Also, Lind is the brand you'r
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by myself248 2mo ago
This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) Shame nobody thought of it then!
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by myself248 3mo ago
It lifts the tires by scooping them up wheel-dolly style. Machines precisely like this, but manually piloted, are used in automotive plants themselves to move vehicles that fail end-of-line test, had an assembly mishap affecting the powertr
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by myself248 3mo ago
In a garage?
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by myself248 3mo ago
On the other hand, it leaves the car locked the whole time, no valet having your keys, no valet adjusting your seats, etc. Some of us avoid valet for some of these reasons. If this thing could pick up my car from curbside at arrivals dropof
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by myself248 3mo ago
I wonder how many people will forget to roll up their windows because they parked in a garage, then the robot leaves the car outside for a week, then the owner comes back to find the car back in the garage but inexplicably soggy and full of
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by myself248 3mo ago
It's not quite ideal hardware due to only having a single NIC, but you can slap a USB NIC on it and make it work, if that's what's handy. Old thin clients are typically in the same hardware class, and probably cheaper by the
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by myself248 3mo ago
I deal with a lot of nerds, but starting in about 2008 we all segmented up the 10.x space and each of us has a /16, with each site we manage having typically a /24 or /22, so nobody overlaps. We can light up tunnels between e
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by myself248 3mo ago
They are also not all that limited. I used a Privacy.com card for a New York Times trial subscription, which of course I could not cancel online, so I just let it expire. A few days past the renewal date, I saw a $waytoomuch charge on my ca
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by myself248 3mo ago
Or just own your own hardware. Spend a few bucks at Microcenter, build a machine, and there's simply no mechanism by which they could decide later that you should actually pay 100x more, and then magically suck it out of your bank acco
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by myself248 3mo ago
> We mostly discover new music from about 15 to 25 or 30, right? It's pretty normal for that to slow down as the concerns of adulthood kinda get in the way of keeping up with whomever is hot now. Maybe, I guess? I still listen to so
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by myself248 3mo ago
And Bluetooth still doesn't have a good "headphone splitter" function to plug in 2 or more sets of headphones, does it?
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by myself248 3mo ago
I love this idea! Yeeeeears ago, I was in the middle of some late-night hacking session, hanging with friends on IRC, and I had shared my screen via VNC so they could watch/help. (ISTR I had found the UART port on some piece of embedde
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by myself248 3mo ago
Yup. Buy it, test it, post a review, return it. It's the only message you can send.
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by myself248 3mo ago
I feel like it was sooooo close to catching on, but basing it on CET instead of UTC made it a bit too clearly tongue-in-cheek. That also torpedoed its main user-base, which I always thought was sysadmins.
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by myself248 3mo ago
> Well, nothing is easier then adding constraints. Technically it's easy. Mentally it's nearly impossible. This comment posted on Ars yesterday blew my mind: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-
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by myself248 3mo ago
Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!
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by myself248 3mo ago
See also, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SCEE
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by myself248 3mo ago
Interesting, thank you! That is quite a list. I only used one for a few years, and never thought to laminate the pages because they didn't need it -- dye-sub wax-printed pages were already suitable for outdoor maps because the wax repe
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by myself248 3mo ago
This looks like a partial reinvention of NNCP's sneakernet transport, but for a much more limited use-case: http://www.nncpgo.org/index.html You can also run NNCP over networks if you want to.
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by myself248 3mo ago
And if you use your cellphone as a USB mass storage device, it still is!
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by myself248 3mo ago
And not a single solid-ink-onto-paper sublimation printer, that I'm aware. There are badge printers still using a dye-sub ribbon, but the Tektronix Phaser, later the Xerox Phaser, is completely gone. I wonder why. Were the consumables
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by myself248 3mo ago
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Whenever I stopped on the public access channel, it was reruns of city council meetings and stuff. I've heard about all sorts of wild and wooly productions by teenagers and weirdos, but never saw any mysel

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