hmstx

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by hmstx 8d ago
I was watching a friend stream a dead game lately. That game was developed before generating images became widespread, and sunset as that "art form" started really taking off (game-as-a-service... probably partly reverse engineere
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by hmstx 8d ago
Exactly this. "All this progress and they're back to miscounted fingers again?!"
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by hmstx 1mo ago
I think it was an ad for Retrospect in an early 90s magazine that said "There are two categories of people: those who have lost files, and those who are going to."
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by hmstx 2mo ago
This is reminiscent of the reasons why Technics (Panasonic) could and would not just do a reissue of the Technics 1200 turntable. In the mid 2010s after some lobbying, they eventually invested into new tooling to build a successor. The new
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by hmstx 2mo ago
"Why so many brands change their logos and look like everybody else". In the past year(s) I have noticed a few icons in my Android phone turning into the same thing. For a long time there was Uber, white on black. And then others
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by hmstx 2mo ago
Hey, just what you see, pal.
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by hmstx 2mo ago
Anecdata: Every time over the years that my parents (now in their 70s) have purchased a new mac, software updates only ever happen if I run them. I don't visit all the time. They run outdated versions of everything until I hear &quot
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by hmstx 4mo ago
> But some sneaky, cowardly bastards sucker-punch you with their dickbars only after you have started reading, and begin to scroll down the page. Yeah, about that, news websites who want to sell me a subscription. I appreciate what you a
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by hmstx 4mo ago
Dammit. I got an IdeaPad of similar price in december 2024. It didn't have one of the fancier displays from the era but still a decent option, it has 16Gb and I thought I'd try a Ryzen mobile thing that time. Wish I'd gone fo
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by hmstx 4mo ago
Heh, haven't heard of this but as a frenchie who sometimes hears swedes over the internet, I find that the permanent snus makes it sound like the person can't stop keeping some gum in their mouth, refilling mid-sentence because th
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by hmstx 5mo ago
Looked at the headline, no prior knowledge of this. "New Mozilla product, okay. Must be... something AI?" click "Ah, of course it is."
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by hmstx 5mo ago
In an interesting twist of fate, one of the master copyists featured prominently in the Scener section of that site has come back in the last few years to win graphics competitions again with both - directly ripping newer, lesser known arti
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by hmstx 6mo ago
Well that's a pompous headline from the author's PR dept. "Europe" as in, "The European Union", or just some marketing trick based on making you believe it is to give it more weight? I'm european and can s
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by hmstx 8mo ago
It doesn't. I "worked around" that by setting a 5 minute daily timer for youtube on my phone - just enough to mark a few regular videos as "Watch Later". Gives me an incentive to scroll past the shorts.
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by hmstx 8mo ago
Funnily enough, from one engine with runtime portal culling to another :)
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by hmstx 8mo ago
I have this on my backlog of Jams to go through, but peeked ahead hoping to see Alekswithak in there, and indeed, it's him. He's already scored a few great SP mods : Alkaline, Dwell, Dwell 2 - which should also be checked out - an
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by hmstx 10mo ago
[Pre-Chorus] I think of all the education that I missed But then my homework was never quite like this [Chorus] Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad I'm hot for teacher Got it bad, sooo bad I'm hot for teacher Wow! [Scorching guitar
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by hmstx 10mo ago
> Wish someone would try to create native MacOS classic on x86 hardware. Apple worked on this themselves - and then they canned it. https://lowendmac.com/2014/star-trek-apples-first-mac-os-on-...
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by hmstx 10mo ago
Pioneer DJ, I mean AlphaTheta, probably don't even know MusicBrainz exists. They're too busy selling subscriptions for RekordBox. And they do nothing to help you with the metadata on your files, besides filtering in browser mode.
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by hmstx 10mo ago
Most of the CDs we burned at home in the 1998-2005 era were still good in recent years, some DVDs in there too. Luck, I guess. No delamination or rot. Really, my main problems were figuring out file types without extentions (burned on class
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by hmstx 10mo ago
> The best way to experience this is at one of the top festivals. The second best way is at a club. I would respectfully disagree and swap these, unless the festival is something like Freerotation. Festivals tend to bring out the more co
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by hmstx 10mo ago
> Elon Musk famously got an access denied there once. Also wasted Richie Hawtin, IIRC. And of course, as I'm sure he asked, they knew who he was :D
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by hmstx 10mo ago
Someone in a past thread here mentioned how they enjoyed the help of LLMs to generate all their PR marketing nonsense blurbs, because they looked just as good as the real thing. It might have been 2-3 years ago but I still joke about this w
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by hmstx 11mo ago
Might be a Monty Python joke, as in "fetchez la vache!"
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by hmstx 11mo ago
Seems like it's, - "good job on the acquisition and maintaining some kind of product" - how many of these are users? - "this is now dead and completely useless to me, I am switching to something FLOSS this instant"
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by hmstx 11mo ago
In retrospect, it seems almost nuts that appliances from the past came with not only a block diagram, but a schematic. Especially now that everything is not only too complex to be documented "for your own good", and even potential
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by hmstx 11mo ago
Never seen wire wrapped boards besides photos of this and maybe some other early micro. So of course I had to do a little search and one of the first results has Bil Herd from Commodore (Plus/4, C128...) explaining it. https:/&#x
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by hmstx 11mo ago
Dale Luck (from the original team) is preserving it, apparently.
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by hmstx 11mo ago
Q3test came out in 1999 - on the classic Mac OS he despised, even a bit before its final OS 9 incarnation. This was to get the biggest bugs ironed out on the most restricted hardware scope available as they were going HW accelerated only du
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by hmstx 1y ago
Oh, that reminds me of a similar experience with Facebook video. Did a live DJ stream a few years ago but only recorded the audio locally at max quality. Back then, I think I already had to use the browser debugger to inspect the url for th

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