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by raudette 5d ago
My fishing story - as a young teen, I "caught" a sturgeon on the Ottawa River (just outside of Pembroke) in a 12' aluminum boat. This was in an area where we'd typically expect to catch bass and northern pike - our fish
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by raudette 12d ago
"Exposure to vibrations, like those generated by high-powered motorcycle engines, might impact iPhone cameras" https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102175 I attribute my iPhone 7's camera failing with mountin
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by raudette 17d ago
Sync on green could be done with the ATI Mach 64 as well. I picked up a 20" SGI monitor (if memory serves, it was made by Hitachi) on the "free" table around 1999 on my university campus. I got it working, but the one I had
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by raudette 17d ago
I did something similar as a kid on my Commodore 64. When my Quickshot joystick broke (after playing Summer Games and similar), I took it apart - it was then that I realised it was just simple switches - it was a metal dome over a circuit
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by raudette 21d ago
I remember it being the 90s :) the first generation AIBO was discontinued TWO decades ago. (it does look like subsequent models were launched about a decade ago)
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by raudette 1mo ago
and DEC Tulip!
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by raudette 2mo ago
I wonder if any of the Apricot-era software is still going? If the services side became ACT, which was bought by Misys, Misys bought by Vista Equity and merged with Canada’s D+H to form Finastra - still a going concern in software for fina
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by raudette 3mo ago
The author writes: "I discovered the IBM Model M in 1993 ... It took me many years to find one. I vividly remember the Craigslist ad for a dilapidated computer shop in a Toronto suburb. Inside I found piles of them, stacked six feet hi
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by raudette 3mo ago
I agree - it's worth doing just for fun. I did the same recently just for fun - I really enjoyed "Gravity Force" on the Amiga - itself a lunar lander variant. Could a model build a Gravity Force like game I could run in-brows
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by raudette 3mo ago
Yeah, this is so bad - I struggled with this as well, why did they make it hard?
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by raudette 3mo ago
this It drives me nuts, I look at cumulative CPU time, and this is all my work laptop does.
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by raudette 4mo ago
Agree - but even for the basic use case, it has not been trouble free for me. With a simple 1080p display on a desktop running LTS Ubuntu on an older 3060: - I've had updates where stuff just stopped working and I had to futz around w
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by raudette 5mo ago
- IBM creates PC and its BIOS - Phoenix creates clone of BIOS - At some point, IBM/Lenovo stopped using its own BIOS - IBM spins out Lenovo - Lenovo buys Phoenix In-house firmware, outsource, then in-house again.
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by raudette 5mo ago
Same experience here. Was getting flats all the time on my commute, bike shop recommended Schwalbe Marathons, haven't had an issue since.
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by raudette 5mo ago
Safari still supports MV2
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by raudette 5mo ago
Just FYI - That defect only impacted systems which boot from ZFS - mine did not. The installer would stop an upgrade if it found a mounted volume - it apparently checks for zfs volumes as follows: sudo zpool list -H I could get around the i
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by raudette 5mo ago
I hit this recently - nVidia issues with a Flatpak, I spent about half an hour on it, gave up, and just decided to try the app out on another laptop.
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by raudette 8mo ago
May be of interest - here's what running Linux and NetBSD on Amiga is like these days: https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/02/running-netbsd... https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/202
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by raudette 8mo ago
The way Find My has been built, it doesn't really matter what they do with the tags, it's fairly straightforward to build your own tags, or modify tags, that bypass any stalking detection. A phone's stalking detection just lo
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by raudette 8mo ago
Story to share - my kids are well into her their teens now, but my youngest, in particular, loved Tux Paint, and used it long before she could read, she'd just click away. One day, she's playing in Tux Paint, and a print out of he
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by raudette 8mo ago
I have been buying Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes for 20 years. My first pair, they were just on sale, so I bought them. When they wore out, I bought a different brand/design. And I noticed that I was wearing the completely worn out old
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by raudette 9mo ago
Related: for fun over the holidays, I created an ePub of a paperback copy of "I Brought The Ages Home", by Charles T. Currelly, which went out of copyright in Canada in 2007 (copyright in Canada changed from 50 to 70 years after t
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by raudette 10mo ago
In my experience, no, but still worth doing. You end up finding and chatting (often off-mesh!) with people who are within Lora-mesh-distance of you, who have similar interests.
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by raudette 10mo ago
Maybe a centralized Op Ed page?
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by raudette 10mo ago
Like my primary storage, with the old storage in a sub folder. There's still a WP51 folder in there somewhere...
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by raudette 10mo ago
I had equipped the family with identical corporate-refurb laptops - when you have any of 4 laptops in a family room, it was a way of not getting my laptop taken by my kids to school one day... Back in the office days, it was also a way to i
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by raudette 10mo ago
I am not a huge gamer - maybe a dozen hours a year. But I feel that, say, Mario responds differently to controls in an emulator than how I remember Mario responding on an NES with a CRT. But I was never very good, and it has been decades,
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by raudette 10mo ago
Funny to have read this today - I read this this morning, and just happened to go to a small gallery in Guelph (small town near Toronto) presenting similar ideas: https://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibition/soft-internet-t
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by raudette 11mo ago
May be of interest to this thread - I created a script that drives the Kindle web reader, captures screenshots, runs OCR, and creates an ePub - this wouldn't be as good as the pixelmelt solution, as it requires OCR. Overview: https:&#
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by raudette 1y ago
Flinks is also an often-used aggregator in Canada. "Connecting" savings accounts from EQ Bank or Wealthsimple to an account at TD Bank requires providing TD credentials to Flinks.

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