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I miss IRC and dislike discord. And I hate web3?.0 memory hog shit webdesign.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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buttvomit
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When humans die out there will still be an active IRC server getting spammed by bots.
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And 12 dead users idling
Everyone shills their discord server these days, I haven't seen IRC mentioned except in the most autistic of places.
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You know what they should bring back? The ability so set autoplay video to off in the Chrome settings. What a stupid thing to remove.
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Someone might have already mentioned it but I miss translucent housings on electronics. When I was a kid we had one of those fat CRT iMacs that showed all of the internals. Computers are more complex and component-dense than ever so it only makes sense to show off the parts inside. Plastics development has come a long way there are strong enough materials to pull it off well now.
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Maybe, but I suspect the problem is that most manufacturers these days will not want to show off their quality of workmanship (or lack thereof....)
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It's still out there, but only for cool people:
But yeah, I get what you mean. I'm not a fan of how electronics just don't have personality anymore either. Even color schemes are bland across the board, and you'd think it'd be trivial to make more things in, I dunno, blue.
Man, that design language still looks nice today. The closest you can get now is RGB lighting, I guess
Billy Beer
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OG xbox did a version with a translucent case. It was cool.
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Feeling a bit like an on-trick pony posting so much about that old platform here lately but I have an old Amiga 600 in what's basically a box made of smoked acrylic glass. Sucks your fingerpints off from across the room somehow but does look nice and the shaded acrylic makes it look fancier and gives it some depth. Even has the "Amiga 600" in the classic font laser-engraved at the front. A lot more scratch resistant than old plexiglass IMO but of course not indestructible. Now this is custom made and sounds expensive AF but at least where I live you can easily find places that will laser-cut you something like this for less than 100 euros all in all (think I paid like 60-70) if you send them the CAD files prepared in a way where they basically just have to load them into their machine together with the material. The difficulty comes from putting it together in ways where you don't put screws directly into the acrylic glas and it's a bit tricky but possible. You can also have custom metal pieces made like this. Everyone is on about 3D printing at home these days but these services are pretty cool too. Some of them also do wood.
(This idea isn't new either. I remember reading a small advert in a computer magazine in the early 90s for a Plexiglas cover for the Amiga 2000 but it was not nearly as fancy and basically just a heatbent piece of clear acrylic but people wanted to look at the innards then too.)
So for your DIY electronic gadgets you can easily have that transparent look, in all kinds of material (frosted, smoked) and even with custom laser engravings. It's not expensive at all and designing the pieces is not THAT difficult. Of course you don't get these fancy, molded shapes and all has to be blocky but hey.
(This idea isn't new either. I remember reading a small advert in a computer magazine in the early 90s for a Plexiglas cover for the Amiga 2000 but it was not nearly as fancy and basically just a heatbent piece of clear acrylic but people wanted to look at the innards then too.)
So for your DIY electronic gadgets you can easily have that transparent look, in all kinds of material (frosted, smoked) and even with custom laser engravings. It's not expensive at all and designing the pieces is not THAT difficult. Of course you don't get these fancy, molded shapes and all has to be blocky but hey.
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My ISP is one that decided to replace the 404 page for a mistyped domain with its own recommendation page. If I mistype a URL, all I need is the 404 page, not what you think I was interested in. Sure, there's a link buried at the bottom for opting out, but one shouldn't have to jump through hoops to expect default behavior.
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You shouldn't be using your ISP's DNS anyway. Use a public DNS that's not your ISP or Google - I like Quad9.
While I'm at it, you can disable "smart" typo guessing in Firefox by setting these in about: config
Code:
keyword.enabled=false
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled=false
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Seems like even re-releases of primitive programs use an obscene amount of system resources.
Like the requirements for the current re-release of the original Master of Orion.
The original came on a handful of floppy disks, ran in DOS, and used the VGA graphics card.
miss: efficient use of system resources
diss: current excessive system resource use
Like the requirements for the current re-release of the original Master of Orion.
The original came on a handful of floppy disks, ran in DOS, and used the VGA graphics card.
miss: efficient use of system resources
diss: current excessive system resource use
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It's probably just the original DOS game packed with DOSBox to emulate it instead of a native port.
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Looks like DOSBox is getting bloated then.
(I can run it just fine on my old toaster with 256 MB of RAM and a few MB of disk space.)
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I would wager it will run on any computer that can run windows xp and those are just the minimum specs they tested it on.
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How long has this existed? I didn't even know about it but shit like this is why I never update firefox
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That's the basic requirements of running Steam so any game on it needs to to run at least on a platform equal to or better than the platform selling it. You should check out Revolution 60 if you want expert platform spec advice.
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I miss the warm, purring hum of my machines. They're so quiet now. I miss the calming sound of fans.