JustARegularNerd
@JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 days ago:
I imagine you could filter it with uBlock right?
- Comment on Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works 2 weeks ago:
I imagine a lot of these went that way unfortunately, including this one. They were difficult to use on Windows 95 onwards as far as I’ve found due to the SVGA resolution being interlaced, making them more tempting to toss once the Osborne PC became obsolete.
It’s quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s, but I suppose when you have a completely offline system that already meets your needs, then it can’t really go obsolete.
- Comment on Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the heads up - it’ll stay as a very occasional use monitor until I either feel comfortable enough to look inside (after lots of research, given the voltages within) or find a friend experienced in CRTs. I really wouldn’t want to blow it up when it could’ve been prevented easily by maintaining it.
- Comment on Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works 2 weeks ago:
Welllllllll… A couple points to mention are that it is SVGA but interlaced, so I’m doing a bit of messing with xrandr to get that working but otherwise it is happy doing 800x600 progressive
I also meant that I didn’t need to do any work to it - it has a couple minor issues as mentioned but didn’t have any major components that have failed (like the flyback for instance)
Also yes I’m based in Australia so 240v is standard here
- Comment on Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works 2 weeks ago:
The ultimate plan is to have a full retro setup, and I will piece it together as I come across more components that I think will fit.
The dream would be a PC from about 2000, running Win2k but dual booted with something old like Win3.11 and/or DOS, and period accurate (but still comfortable) peripherals, so keyboard, mouse, and speakers.
- Comment on Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works 2 weeks ago:
Until I get a nice computer to pair with it (that is, not my Linux server), this just felt right to do with it
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- Comment on Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8 2 weeks ago:
I was so sad when my Nexus 7 gave up the ghost (quite literally fizzled and nothing more) but I got a solid 10 years out of it.
I loved how easy they were to work on, the NFC, the unlockable bootloader, the ROM support, headphone jack of course. We didn’t know how good we had it then.
- Comment on sharevb/it-tools: Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX. 2 weeks ago:
I just had a quick play around with it, HEIC converter is something I didn’t know I needed (I have a large backup from my iPhone which has HEICs), and I like the .eml parser just to name a couple.
I’ll be adding this to my server for sure. Thanks for sharing
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 3 weeks ago:
I totally agree, they’re mad little machines. I’m only selling mine because I can’t stand the combined touchpad/track point setup Lenovo did in that generation and I quickly replaced it with an X260. Both of them are capable of damn good battery life (I get about 5-6 hours from my X260)
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been planning on selling a couple older laptops (Latitude E6420 and ThinkPad X240) and this is a fantastic idea. The former laptop doesn’t even have Windows 10 drivers (that I know of)
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 month ago:
SMS is incredibly antiquated as soon as you want to do anything multimedia, or heck sending an SMS longer than 144 characters.
My mother received a video over SMS the other day and it legitimately looked like it was filmed on a Nokia 6310.
I’ve encouraged my family to use Signal to replace SMS and it functions really well as an SMS upgrade. It’s more secure, private, supports sending decent quality multimedia, the interface is simplistic, it has formatting, does video calls well.
From both a security and usability perspective, it wins out on SMS in my opinion.
- Comment on Good morning. 1 month ago:
It’s clearly a complete the CAPTCHA challenge.
Please enter the word you see above
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
Agreed, and to be fair I still stop in at niche subreddits I used to follow to see what’s new, but never logged in.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
This is the actual reason for me too. I’m making a point to never visit that website again.
There’s exceptions like when searching for troubleshooting help and a relevant result happens to be on Reddit, but otherwise I avoid it as much as possible.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 5 months ago:
Yeah I think it was clear there was sarcasm when they concluded on newspaper being the best form to get tech news lol
- Comment on EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah”. 5 months ago:
It’s not about if a company is shafting you then don’t use them. If a company is shafting it’s userbase, it shouldn’t fall squarely on the customers to make a company stop shafting them, it’s legislators and governments with teeth who should do something about it.
Try telling this argument to the team behind Netscape Navigator. Microsoft’s most attractive aspect was using their Windows market share to, in their case, take market share in other submarkets like browsers and word processors. If the customers don’t want to be behind such a dick move, they shouldn’t use it?
