#nobot following please
I confirm every follow request as long as you have own content or at least written an #introduction post. Because I feel uneasy when followed by empty accounts.
@mdhughes I know that "Voivode", though in different spellings, was used in eastern europe #fairytale stories as a canonical antagonist leader type, not necessarily a war lord but usually playing dirty and getting punished by the hero.
I haven't heard the word since the early 80s.
@thomasfuchs Is there an apostrophe after the L, like to additionally pronounce it with a french accent in my head? L'aunch America?
@thomasfuchs "Just theoretical", how would you suggest to approach a maybe depressive friend. Rumour has it you only have one chance as he/she will hide it onwards when I do it wrong.
No need to answer if that's the "wrong" question.
I speak German, if that matters for an answer.
Thanks.
@stiefkind The NC-10 worked great with Ubuntu netbook edition, but that existed only around 2009. You are probably looking for *current* distros. I also had luck with Ubuntu Mate on other older machines.
@cypnk In 1992 I had just stopped partying and rediscovered Apocalypse Now which I watched in an endless loop until around 1994. On VHS, obviously. Recorded without ads, in times when movies on TV were introduced by some speaker.
My very first encounter with #arcade games at all happened in the year before #tchernobyl when visiting #ukraine and we played
- "Морской бой" (Morskoi Boi/Sea Battle)
TIL there is a whole museum dedicated to soviet arcade games.
Let's get over this: the climax of #German Engineering boredom by the most boring German company was the
* Siemens-Nixdorf Scenic Pro C5/C6
running Windows 95. I used to work on this machine in the late 90s. That's not even #retrocomputing.
For the only colored element this thing had they chose... turquoise?
That's the computer on which sinister German tax laws were planned - and printed. The ill terminal of the german information super highway. Nixdorf's Darkest Hour.
@dosnostalgic He's working on "CAD/CAM software" - I nearly forgot about this term. Why is that word not used anymore?
My saying. Eventually it will be anything but at least empirically it is slightly better than lottery.
Histogram animation of various death causes, with covid surpassing the others over time.
I could not resist and now have an #epsonhx20 EPSON HX-20 in my little #retrocomputing #retrohardware zoo.
I admit I'm not sure what actually to do with it but it looks gorgeous and makes me feel good.
@mdhughes Nice. Mothra and Biollante are my favourite monsters in the #godzilla universe.
I still have to actually watch the old movies, only saw a couple of of them in so called "bad movie night" nights.
@cypnk If you are into this you probably already know the #Kalaschnikov #motorcycle.
Although I don't think e-bikes scale well to the apocalypse. I'm personally more into the Mad Max 2 mindset where they cruise around the gas reserves which they wouldn't need if they just stopped cruising, but hey.
https://englishrussia.com/2017/10/25/kalashnikov-electric-motorbikes/
@mdhughes Take a break.
I just realized that it's not the 2-dimensionality of Befunge that makes it esoteric.
The first high-level programming language ever, Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül, was originally 2-dimensional.
@mdhughes The life of The Real Hemmingway is the closest thing to Mad Max. But I don't think that movie or at least its horrible poster tries hard enough to catch that.
In the #terminator3 #movie they scroll a list of airbases at some point.
I first though it is a hidden joke to contain a Batman and a Moron airbase but they do actually exist.
And speaking of #terminator3 #movie - I don't like that movie much but the bunker at the end looks like a good place to work.
They are probably a bit distracted by the missiles outside but the interior compensates quite a bit.
And also some nice #retrocomputing #keyboard in the #terminator3 #movie.
@benjancewicz Woah, and someone rewrote his lyrics down in that thread:
SmartRRRs • 5 hours ago
Alright stop the growth rate and listen
Ice is back with a brand new pathogen
Covid grabs a hold of me tightly
Lung like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don't know
Turn off the vent and I'll go
Cough. Cough. Covid
Cough. Cough. Covid
If you got Corona
Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the 90's - no corona involvement
ICU ICU BABY
@dosnostalgic 1991
I literally did #xkcd/606 with Half-Live 2 and Portal in those years.
On a related story, I once had to buy a #playstation2 after I realized that the PS3-community's meaning of "retro games" is still off by at least one decade.
On the PS2 they still knew how to do scrolling 2D shooters and didn't fear pixels.
The #metalslug anthology alone was worth it.
I also bought but never played the #playstation2 Atari Anthology - it only pushed me over the edge to finally rebuy my original #Atari 800XL setup in 2016.
@dosnostalgic "DEUTSCHE FUJI-TAPE Vertriebs-GmbH & Co. KG" -- one of best distributor names ever!
Former sci-fi:
[X] Moon travel
[X] Replicants
[X] Network 23
[X] Neuromancer VR
[X] Skynet
[ ] Soylent Green
Totally unrelated corporations:
[X] NASA
[X] Boston Dynamics
[X] Rupert Murdoch
[X] Oculus VR
[X] Google
[ ] Amazon
@dredmorbius It's a pre-cyber arachnida counter measure to avoid mashup attacks like in xkcd/1530.
"Why do you always fixate on these bizarre details?" :-)
@mdhughes For months now I think how to get my DR-DOS back and on which device to run it. Ironically, too, but still. I nearly forgot about this xkcd but the timing fits. Again.
I soldered light pens in 1990 during education and actually saw them for the first and last time ever used in the #DieHard 2 movie when they "re-calibrate sea level - minus 200 feet" in the ILS landing system.
The light pen's indirect position inference mechanism catched my younger me's attention, as it wasn't the display that knew where the pen is but the pen signals that it just saw the electron beam and it's known where the beam should be at that time.
The whole #DieHard 2 tower duplication setup in the church looks gorgeous.
#DieHard 2 - I can watch it for the #retrohardware displays alone...
Oh, more light pen. Just found the Fairlight CMI #synthesizer with an overall great #retrohardware feel of 70s and 80s.
And while we are at #synthesizer #retrohardware, the one in the "Beat Street" movie is a Synclavier II.
It looks like they implanted a #VT100 into #PDP11 haptics with sound. Gorgeous!
Some more pictures for the Synclavier II #synthesizer #retrohardware.
@m0ofx What a very british "analogue in" label. 😃
The tragedy of "Groundhog Day" (1993) isn't the wrong time but only the wrong place.
@bryn Milva - There can only be one.
Do you remember that joke back in the late #90s about "if cars were computers", essentially stating how ridiculously unreliable software is in comparison to the high standards used in the #car industry?
Yet, here we are 20 years later, trying exactly that.
@dosnostalgic Back in the time of my DOS gaming era my younger me downplayed those "lame" CGA graphics, pointing to the new kids on the 16-color EGA block.
Nevertheless I played some of them with great enthusiasm, especially Sopwith Camel.
Nowadays, those cyan colors trigger my nostalgia more than anything else, especially more than EGA.
This guy cleans the overly yellowed plastics of an Atari 800XL, a ZX Spectrum, and an Amiga with UV lamps and a lot of Hydrogen Peroxide.
Warnings about peroxide burn included.
Those magic late summer nights, when the sun glows, the extra ball lamp glints, super novae light up the ramp, and the metal rumbles over wooden colored paths.
One of my two #pinball machines in action.
"Tales of the Arabian Nights", Williams, 1996.
Oh my, all those gorgeous police car radio terminals on this page:
https://www.klaus-paffenholz.de/bos-funk/datenfunk.html
(German but anyway, the images, the images...)
This is the slowest developing self-christmas-present ever with an already complicated story until this point, and I hope it works at all at the end. Stay tuned...
@Retrograde I bought this book and like it so far on my rare spare time 6502 assembler learning journey. From skimming I'm optimistic to handle the mix of 6502 with its bigger companions.
Man. Starting a Bluray takes longer than rewinding a VHS tape. Yet both are first world problems.
Your kids aren't always right. But don't mess with them on climate.
Join your kids next Friday to make their strike a real punch.
September 25, 2020.
https://fridaysforfuture.org/action-map/map/
#climatecrisis
#climatestrike
#FightClimateInjustice #FridaysForFuture
