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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."

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 eventua…

"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 tim…

Hey, just what you see, pal.

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 r…

> 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 wh…

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 R…

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…

Looked at the headline, no prior knowledge of this. "New Mozilla product, okay. Must be... something AI?" click "Ah, of course it is."

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…

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 weigh…

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 s…

Funnily enough, from one engine with runtime portal culling to another :)

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, Dwel…

[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, s…

> 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-firs…

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 …

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…

> 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 l…

> 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

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 be a Monty Python joke, as in "fetchez la vache!"

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 switchin…

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 …

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 Comm…