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NanoRaptor

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Australian. Print and pixel wrangler. She/her.

Currently in my Medicated ADHD era. Extremely tall, 100% taken.

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The one true USB3 connector.

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A "They Live" AR filter for Apple Vision Pro.

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That's a win for team bears.

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sinspired by @jsr because it's perfect.

https://social.jsr.com/@jsr/112398571801354404

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This photo of an apple two-button two-handed mouse is banned in twenty three countries.

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Installing Mac system software on your Ti-92 Plus gives you a calculator in your calculator.

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Commodore 128DD

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Macintosh PowerBook G3 with PowerPod 3

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Levono ThinkPad.

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You ever go back to re-watch a classic film you hadn't seen since childhood, only to discover you'd NEVER seen it in its entirety, just bits of it over the years?

Anyway I just watched James Whale's Frankenstien for the first time.

I think I had seen its sequel originally as a kid, and conflated the two.

The humanity this scene gives the Monster is just amazing for the time.
Dr. Frankenstein about to find out what it feels like to “be a God".
Torches and pitch-forks. Hope nobody needed that windmill for anything important.

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@vampiress All the time!

I'm rarely able to sit through a movie all the way on the first go, and returning is fraught with 'am I in the right spot? on this looks interesting...'

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Same picture. Same bullshit.

A report card from year 10. It reads in part: English, Grade A, Dana is a very able and talented student who does not always give of her best. This failure to invest much energy in her English prevents her from achieving her full potential although this is not the say that this work is of an inferior standard. Also, Mathematics (Advanced), Grade A, Dana is a keen student but her work lacks discipline. She has a lot of ability but this needs further development.

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Macintosh PowerFriend.

A picture of a small but appealingly chunky netbook style laptop, that looks suspiciously like a PowerBook G3 but smaller, cuter, and more trackpad-integrated-with-buttony. It's sitting on a white background, and has what appears to be a small 2.35:1 ratio screen, running Mac OS 9. It has the same delicious touchable curves as the original PowerBook G3.
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    Apple could do just one thing to make the Mac mini the biggest selling Mac ever among users of a certain age.

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    Today's project is re-writing Catalina for 8-bit support, but I'm having issues getting logging in to work. Or actually anything at all. Honestly this is just fever dreaming isn't it. Am I real?

    The 128D is real, though, and one of the better looking Commodore 8-bit machines.

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    @vampiress I am too, I always liked the original Amiga and this is even better looking, like a kind of Pro pizza box. Also I picked this one up in almost brand new condition from CARE for $10 about 20 years ago. It's been floating around here for a long while embedding in my consciousness!

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    They just don't put thought into design like they used to.

    The longer you look, the calmer you feel.

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    A returning friend needs a clean.

    I loaned this to work in 2017 when a display on one of the large guillotines died, as a temporary until they could find a replacement composite display. Seven years later...

    It's a one-owner monitor. Me!

    Bought when I was 16, brand new. Same desk both pics, too.

    A photo of the same Commodore 1084 monitor on my old Amiga 2000, with a small fluffy himalayan kitten sitting in front of the keyboard.

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    Also, all the ports you could ever need.

    NanoRaptor OP ,
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    @vampiress They're such a nice rock solid* basic looks-the-part Amiga and C64 display.

    • internally solid. The case is just so much shit and I don't know how the front door has survived this long!
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    'night folks.

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    It appears I have radiation burns.

    I spent an hour and a half with unsatisfactory shielding just minutes away from a G2V class fusion reactor.

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    Dual layer VHS.

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    Words can't effectively describe how much I hate modern PCs.

    Just fought a losing battle against the ghastly work heater I was issued years ago, which has decided it will now display nothing on the screen ever, because I changed cables between it and the monitor.

    Even when I change them back, it doesn't work.

    All the cables/plugs work fine with my various macs and raspberry pis.

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    @vampiress The rants I do at work... oh so similar.

    I have the opposite problem too, a HP monitor that when plugged into one particular RIP (a Win7 PC) will die to black screen in minutes. After that it just won't work with ANY other device.

    Give it a few days in the pile of things to be thrown out, and it works again with anything for any amount of time, except the one PC that 'kills' it.

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    @vampiress I'm reminded of a youthy modern computer user on some forum or other who set himself the task of getting his Mac II to work with multiple displays as a project, and five minutes after starting he has a photo of it working, going WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME IT WAS THIS EASY I'VE PUT THIS OFF FOR MONTHS.

    The old things aren't perfect but goodness some new things keep needing to be re-invented and re-fixed

    (Like good ubiquitous drag & drop, but that's a rant for a much longer thread.)

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    A reminder to remove the batteries from your old retro gear or next time you open the box all you may find is pain.

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    I've finally started saving the pdfs of the papers I read in organized folders by topic so I can find them again. I give them clear titles so I know what they are (not DOI345234.pdf) I even put the folder "in the cloud" so I can read them on my phone when I'm bored.

    ...

    please clap

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    @futurebird if I applaud you then I applaud me and I’m up for that. Relatively organised folders of well-named files <3.

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    Whenever complementing someone's pet I like to use the category that includes their pet along with ants.

    Pet Bees "adorable hymenopterans!"
    Pet Beetle "what a lovely insect"
    Pet Crab "what a cute arthropod"
    Pet dog "Such a charming bilaterian!"

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    @futurebird rabbits are literal grass hoppers.

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    me being trans and tired and visible on

    you can live to get old ok? just so you know. I know that's not terribly big to anybody but us, but I think it’s important to know when it may not feel a given. time passes and the world is sometimes shit but it's also kind and surprising with decades of this wonderfulness behind me and more to come.

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    It's 4450CE. Humanity has reached and explored the stars. We've solved poverty and hunger, we make good use of resources and take care of all sentient life.

    Two arbitrary users with devices loaded to the gills with storage & communications still cannot simply send a file from one to another.

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    Ink Jet.

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    rest in peace pac man gone too soon.

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    The thing I hate most about the LLM image generation that is absolutely saturing the net these days is this: the uniformity. There's a Look(tm) to LLM generated art. Sure, you can force a certain style, but most people don't. So most of what you get is this gross, shiny, fake-looking crap.

    And it'll get worse. As LLMs sample their own output, and as more people just generate the first thing that comes out, it'll get worse.

    It's all shiny fucking garbage, and we're stuck with it.

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    @vampiress I'd even prefer a return to overdone HDR effect photos compared to this gunk.

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    For a co-worker.

    A photo of a medication box for Spice melange 60 straws. The box has a blue sky and sand dune image, with warnings. CAUTION MAY CAUSE PERMANENT IRIS AND SCLERA DISCOLOURATION and PRESCIENCE ENHANCER RESULTS WILL VARY.

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    @Limey_tank Bread.

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    When replacing the caps on your retro gear logic boards, be sure to also replace any damaged googly eyes with the correct type for your machine.

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    Did you know you can use an early 90s CPU, the ones in the dark subtle purple ceramic package, as a whetstone to sharpen a blade?

    It worked on one of my kitchen knives, but is a little bit fine to do a really top job in a reasonable time. The 040 in the pic turned out not to be as flat on the surface as it seemed - see the squares within squares in the abraded metal pattern.

    Being an LC040 it may be more suited to dhrystone work.

    A photo of a 68LC040 25MHz CPU covered in darkened oil full of abraded metal after being used as a whetstone for a kitchen knife. It worked, but not terribly well by itself.

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    The Macintosh SE will rear up and expose its extra floppy drives if it feels threatened.

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    Picked up an extremely rare album today, and a terrific bit of Apple memorabilia as well.

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    Microsoft Excel

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    What is a film that you loved when you first watched it, but you refuse to re-watch as you either fear it won't hold up, or know it never can?

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    @vampiress Anti-Christ. I was in a very different place in life to now, and the one time I watched it and it made it to my top 3 was what I needed, and that's it, no need to think any more on it, it did its job and it will now stay where it is.

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    NES ain't done 'til Lotus won't run.

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    whimper

    There is nothing like the joy of the oncoming storm.

    Hot, humid still day, and then this bears down.

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    Much of the collection more recently. A load more well looked after, if you wish to scrub the previous images from your mind too.

    A photo of shelves of old Mac, Commodore, DEC and NeXT retro gear. The shelves stand 7ft tall and are packed with machines, while the little retro desk to the right has a Quadra 605 set up with a monochrome portrait display, speakers, floppy disks and a PowerBook. There is a modern Synology NAS looking conspicuously present, but maybe the CERN "this machine is a server do not power it down!!" sticker on it makes it blend in.
    A photo of a little retro desk setup with Mac Quadra 605, apple adjustable keyboard, appledesign speakers, an apple mouse pad, newton, external CD and Zip drives, with loads of floppies and ZIP disks. There's also a QuickTake camera sitting happily just being vibey.

    A photo of shelves of old Mac, Commodore, DEC and NeXT retro gear. The shelves stand 7ft tall and are packed with machines, while the little retro desk to the right has a Quadra 605 set up with a monochrome portrait display, speakers, floppy disks and a PowerBook. There is a modern Synology NAS looking conspicuously present, but maybe the NeXT sticker on it makes it blend in.
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    Combining Centre Positive and Centre Negative would solve the problem of incorrect connections.

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    An amusing locational weirdness. Here's a shot out the front of the Metropolis-based Daily Planet in Superman Returns. Spot the 1980s Australian Ford Falcon

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    What’s that one anachronism you always pick up in movies and tv? Susan Kare’s Chicago font in 1940s small town America? A canon 5D dslr winding on film in Skyline? VT100s in a monsterverse scene in 1974?

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