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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
"On the 8s":
hh:08, hh:18, hh:28, hh:38,hh:48, hh:58Ah, OK, now I get it. Never heard (read) it put like that before.
That's how the station's actually advertise it.
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
station's
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
station's
Oops. I'm currently scoring a dog show... Supposed to be "stations".
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
station's
Oops. I'm currently scoring a dog show...
I misread the avatar for a sec and though that sentence was missing an "at".
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@LaoC said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare it's literally a sound output that's on the motherboard, but sure.
every CRT monitor had sound, too. It's just that for some it was was only the buzz of the mains and the whine of the flyback transformer.
By that logic, every motherboard has onboard audio, it's just you're too old to hear it.
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@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
@LaoC said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare it's literally a sound output that's on the motherboard, but sure.
every CRT monitor had sound, too. It's just that for some it was was only the buzz of the mains and the whine of the flyback transformer.
By that logic, every motherboard has onboard audio, it's just you're too old to hear it.
Apparently I'm not too old for the coils on some P4 boards yet.
Poor cats.
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@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
@LaoC said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare it's literally a sound output that's on the motherboard, but sure.
every CRT monitor had sound, too. It's just that for some it was was only the buzz of the mains and the whine of the flyback transformer.
By that logic, every motherboard has onboard audio, it's just you're too old to hear it.
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@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
every motherboard has onboard audio, it's just you're too old to hear it.
Ha! I don't even need the motherboard any more ; I've got tinnitus.
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@Zerosquare I had tinnitus before I had any s. At a lower frequency than TV horizontal sync, though — loud machinery without adequate ear protection.
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@loopback0 A regs were summer '83 to summer '84 in case it helps.
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@HardwareGeek Young boy. Or is it just West Pondianness?
That's a BMW:
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@loopback0 A regs were summer '83 to summer '84 in case it helps.
"20 years ago" is now "40 years ago"? Figures...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Belt Onion club:
I'm in this picture and not sure how I feel about it.
I was unaware they had stopped.
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@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Belt Onion club:
I'm in this picture and not sure how I feel about it.
I was unaware they had stopped.
Now they come in thimbles.
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@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
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@HardwareGeek Boxes are more efficient to pack, but tubs are more efficient to fill.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
They're mostly somewhere in between at this point IME:
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
They're mostly somewhere in between at this point IME:
And once upon a time, they used to be 1/2 gallon.
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
They're mostly somewhere in between at this point IME:
And once upon a time, they used to be 1/2 gallon.
Well, things shrink when they're cold
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
They're mostly somewhere in between at this point IME:
And once upon a time, they used to be 1/2 gallon.
Well, things shrink when they're cold
And old.
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@dcon That's
shrinkflation
. The company can pretend to keep the old price...
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It's the little things.
MessageBox.Show(text, title, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Hand); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Belt Onion club:
It's the little things.
MessageBox.Show(text, title, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.<del>Hand</del><ins>Finger</ins>); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FTFTDWTF
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@coderpatsy Though I do remember you could change your cursor. Don't know if you can still do that.
Follow-up: Yes you can.
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@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
@coderpatsy Though I do remember you could change your cursor. Don't know if you can still do that.
Follow-up: Yes you can.
My favorite was the banana, and the "busy" version would peel itself while waiting.
So, yes, you can still change the cursor but now the only choices are boring. Just one more thing that Microsoft ruined
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@Gern_Blaanston Maybe because when icons were 32 by 32 pixels in 16 or 256 colours, it was much easier to draw some yourself, than it is with all the ultrahigh-res, 1234567890-bit colour stuff of today. Sure, the basic concept is the same, but with low res and few colours, you needed a lot less artistic ability to produce some cursors that look good compared to the usual system cursors. (Proved by the fact that I used to make custom cursors on Windows 95 and 98.)
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
you needed a lot less artistic ability to produce some cursors that look good compared to the usual system cursors. (Proved by the fact that I used to make custom cursors on Windows 95 and 98.)
So did I. Trust me, they did not look good.
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@Zerosquare Funny, I recently so a Ted-X video claiming coffee berries were discovered around the 9th century AC.
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare Funny, I recently so a Ted-X video claiming coffee berries were discovered around the 9th century AC.
According to the always-reliable font of all human knowledge (), that is a legend, and that legend first appears in 1671, some 800 years after the alleged event. Meanwhile, the first credible evidence of coffee use dates to the mid-1400s in Yemen.
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@Zerosquare Brittannica puts the origin of coffee at 850 CE. Wikipedia (yeah, I know) puts the origin at 10 CE. Can you elaborate? [https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-coffee], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee]. Did I misunderstand?
OMG, I just got trolled again.
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@loopback0 I don't want to keep up with Gen Z. Hmph.
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@HardwareGeek Just wait another 10 years and your antiquated acronyms will be all the rage again.
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@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club:
Currys have revealed the easy acronym swaps you can make to keep up with Gen Z.
: I won't let tell me what to do!
Seriously, though, WhoTF are Currys?
Other than that, I'm torn about this. They're replacing stupid acronyms with even more stupid ones. Seems like it has indeed been going downhill since at least Socrates.
The results revealed that YOLO (You Only Live Once) came up on top as the acronym Gen-Z respondents considered to be the most outdated.
YOLO has been correctly criticized as "Carpe Diem for stupid people". -- Jack Black
ROFL: Ugh
Skull emoji: seriously??GR8: For fuck's sake
That slaps: Makes you sound like a moron, but still better than GR8.OMG (oh my god) vs. High-five emoji
Those don't mean even close to the same thing?!KK vs. Bet
Honestly, the "new" one is less stupid.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
Seriously, though, WhoTF are Currys?
They sell eletronics and appliances.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
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.Back in my day, we earned our whoosh badges uphill both ways, without any hidden text wharrrrgarbl.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
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