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by e808 8d ago
Im sure I saved a few thousands of dollars when one of my 3 solar inverters failed, chatgpt read through the documentation, my power configuration and pointed out that i could safely reroute the connections from the failed inverter to one o
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by e808 2mo ago
This is definitely something I have been mulling as I 'made' several software projects that I have been tossing around in my head over my lifetime via vibe-coding recently that would have taken me 10x to 100x the time to a MVP, wi
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by e808 11mo ago
Fossil watches actually released a palm-based watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA nobody could out-nerd me with that watch that lasted only a few hours per charge.
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by e808 1y ago
I agree whole heartedly. My aging father went through a process of trying to call in a repair/replacement on a oven on a extended warranty, and the level of run around and hoops he had to take to get them to process and actually perfor
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by e808 1y ago
Compute! had a fork? of a magazine specifically for Commodore Computers called 'Compute! Gazette' https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette I spent many of days in my youth typing in the pages of code they
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by e808 2y ago
Oh that 'free' 3g was amazing! I was able to hobble through gmail through the browser, and even wrote a kindle-friendly Zork website so one could play text games on it allowing you to choose from a bunch of zmachine roms. Had some
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by e808 3y ago
This reeks of attempting to close the garden further. Whatever happened to that boot/hack that gave cli to ipad that was mentioned a few years ago.
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by e808 3y ago
The few instances I travelled in remote areas with little to no Internet, and moreover no over the air TV reception, I always mulled how a simple 1K-2k setup with a mini PC running plex and a 10-20TB of disk space could provide an plex TV m
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by e808 4y ago
I recall in the late 80s on vt100's accessing BITNET allowed you to 'net send'-like to other BITNET nodes around the country. I used to randomly try to contact other users at other random educational institutions after using
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by e808 4y ago
Lora would be an interesting text-based communication method. Although closed sourced, its dirt china cheap.
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by e808 4y ago
This seems like a step closer to the 'Her' movie AI entity (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) , or more closely, the scene where she converses with a Alan Watts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exe7yup2Yu0 where in th