wjrii
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- Comment on paint job 5 days ago:
99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 5 days ago:
While I’m glad they aren’t entirely ignoring the elephant in the room, what I’m humbly suggesting is that they’re wrong. It’s a rather inadequate compromise, and you might as well just use RetroArch on a tablet, which could get closer to the original screen size anyway.
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 6 days ago:
If the gameplay itself hits your nostalgia feels, then okay, modern gear can make it playable and… fine. But vector CRT games were just so deeply tied to the way the CRT worked that you can never properly capture their spirit in raster form, especially on a tiny and so-so panel.
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 6 days ago:
Experience the spirit of the original Vectrex
AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600
These two thoughts are not compatible.
- Comment on Which one and why? 6 days ago:
One. It already looks like the sugar spoon my kid always picks first for her meals anyway.
- Comment on What are some of your favorite Master System memories? 1 week ago:
I’m not Brazilian or French, so my main memory is walking past the boxes on the store’s video games aisle. The graph paper pattern on the labels was cool.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 1 week ago:
They need to make one episode in which they retcon Trip’s death in that stupid Holodeck finale, air it so it’s canon, and then immediately cancel the show because this sounds mid AF, and Archer was an ass, and Bakula has all the presidential gravitas of a single neutron.
- Comment on We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game 2 weeks ago:
Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, Xena has got to go. There’s no phonetic difference with Z. Xavier might be your best bet, but that’s a tough one.
- Comment on A question for the ages 2 weeks ago:
This is already settled science.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
That fat PP looks a little on the short side.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.
I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.
- Comment on YSK that the current US Defense Secretary was previously a lobbyist hired by for-profit colleges. Many americans have no idea about that. 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, yet this is still quite awful.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 4 weeks ago:
Yup. I also liked this, but I’m trying hard not to just quote the whole thing back, because it’s all good.
Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own. I can’t think of a better argument for a humanities requirement than a billionaire being asked “how do we know what is real?” and responding with “cryptographic signatures.”
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, Richard.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 4 weeks ago:
I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.
- Comment on Where is this located? Asking for a friend... 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t looked it up, but having spent a lot of time in Northeast Georgia, I’m guessing the odds are pretty high that the stress on that town name is on the first syllable.
- Comment on Replacement PS/2 cable for IBM Model M keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
So unlike apparently everyone else on these threads, I actually have a Model M. Okay, technically I have three Model Ms, but still…
What kind of PS/2 cable is it? permanent or modular?
Is it still working, even if it looks rough?
Are you comfortable soldering?
If not, are you at least comfortable following a simple wiring diagram?
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 4 weeks ago:
I would just about bet Meshy AI gave a “non-manifold” model. 3-D models that are intended to be digital assets can have that issue, and I would suspect it’s easier for an AI to produce them versus properly manifold objects ready to be made solid.
There are ways to fix them though, and Meshy even has their own suggestions (Blender and Meshlab).
- Comment on These used to popular 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but look at the switch! If God made you that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 5 weeks ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 1 month ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 1 month ago:
- Comment on I made a custom arcade stick 1 month ago:
I’ve used adhesive steel wheel-balancing weights on a couple of my modded keyboards. They’re cheap, low-profile, and have to be lead-free. If you have room on your bottom plate, just slap a bunch on there. You can put down masking tape first if you want to avoid damaging the plate if you decide to remove them.
- Comment on An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology 1 month ago:
Also, an interesting idea, that provocateurs intentionally started rumors and pushed them hardest to areas where destroying a land register would cause the most issues for the local nobility.
- Comment on Uhm 1 month ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Law school can be eye-opening. Con law in particular was an interesting one. If you can make it through Marbury v Madison in your first semester of your first year and not realize that the entire American system is held together with chewing gum and baling wire and it’s a miracle it ever enabled a functional government at all, or get through Dred Scott v Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson later on and not realize that the law should always seek justice in as far as said chewing gum and baling wire even halfway plausibly permit, then you’re either an idiot or an asshole, and probably both.
Slavish devotion to your generation’s “plain reading” of increasingly distant legalese written by – to put it euphemistically – deeply conflicted men who were indeed clever and motivated, but were also the half-educated elites of a cultural backwater, is how you end up with our current mess.
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 1 month ago:
It certainly doesn’t help that they shared a name with the Amiga digital camera/scanner perhipheral. I found a listing in the July 2000 issue of Computer Shopper where “Bay Micro Computers” out of Torrance California was selling the aforementioned “beige box” AMD PCs with Digiview keyboards. One of the keyboards was on eBay, and it seems like a bog standard rebadged OEM membrane keyboard of the era.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 1 month ago:
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
