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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    It makes me (maybe unreasonably) angry that you need to be careful buying one to make sure you get the M4 Pro MacBook Pro if you want the upgrade. It took me a bit to wrap my head around the wording, don't make your shit confusing Apple!

  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    There is apparently the game porting toolkit. Seems like you can get most things working, not sure what performance is like.

    I'm typically just playing games that natively work on MacOS.

    Played through BG3, Hades and Disco Elysium on there.

    Currently I'll load up Civ or Rimworld.

    Definitely not playing shooters or AAA rpg's. I'll do that on the gaming pc.

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    I am now dying to know what that is advertising

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  • BullheadBullhead Registered User regular
    I am now dying to know what that is advertising

    Robin Hood, Men in Tights?

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    They changed it to latrine?

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Used to be Shithouse!

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    I am now dying to know what that is advertising

    Reverse image search pulls up a Romanian website and that is the title page of something called the hobbit almanac. At least according to Google translate. Which just raises a lot more questions.

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    PSN:Furlion
  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    It is a part of a Robin Hood themed fold out ad for Gateway2000 computers.

    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_18wFKrkDdM0C/page/n57/mode/2up?view=theater

  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Wow, some bits of that magazine did _not_ age super well:
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    I have _never_ heard of this before and I was around at the time that ad got printed.

    Then, a few pages later:
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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
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    This free-lance journalist reported on the Afghan rebels' resistance to the Soviet-backed regime in their country and filed his stories back to the U.S. using an Osborne computer
    https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1982-07/page/n43/mode/2up

  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    Wow, some bits of that magazine did _not_ age super well:
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    I have _never_ heard of this before and I was around at the time that ad got printed.

    Then, a few pages later:
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    The Floptical disk came out just a few years before the Zip Drive. The need for a new drive to read the disks meant it never really had time to catch on before the Zip Drive, which initially released with 100x more capacity than a floppy vs the Floptical's 15x, buried it. I personally never ran across a computer during that period that had a Floptical drive.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Yeah, I remember Zip drives, I think we actually had one for a short while, but "Floptical" was completely unfamiliar.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    CompTIA is being bought by a vulture capital group. Looking forward to the prices for certs to go away up.

  • TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    CompTIA is being bought by a vulture capital group. Looking forward to the prices for certs to go away up.

    So the only certs I have will be worthless!

    (If 15 year old A+/Network+ certs are worth anything anyway. I guess I also have a Windows 95 cert I got when I graduated high school....)

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    If you haven't renewed them, you don't have them anymore. Expect renewals to go up in price too!

  • TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    Not that it matters or I care, but I got them just before renewals were a thing.

    Still probably considered expired.

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    I'm imagining that standards will also go down, rendering the certs useless anyways.

    Steam: Polaritie
    3DS: 0473-8507-2652
    Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
    PSN: AbEntropy
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Oh yeah, once the vultures get in there people will stop caring. Good way to drive up the value of the Google/MSE/Azure type certs at least. And maybe will give CompTIA some competition in the space eventually.

    It's too bad since they were a nonprofit. They're not gonna be anymore!

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    *standing there holding his half-completed cert*

    Of ducking course.

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited November 5
    Amazon's robo-taxi company saying that they don't have to apply for an exemption from safety regulations because they're "self-certifying the vehicles' safety features" is an absolutely breathtaking play that a. almost certainly won't work and b. won't stop them from deploying their stupid auto-driving boxes and I'm genuinely curious about how this plays out, companies are getting increasingly comfortable playing chicken with regulators around the whole self-driving taxi question and I really, really wish they'd stop. Cars are big and dangerous!

    Edit: Amazing quote:
    “We’ve spent an incredible amount of money and time and people complying with the FMVSS regulations as they are,” Levinson said, “and because there aren’t traditional manual controls, in some cases, that requires, you know, interpreting them in a way that is relevant to a robotaxi.”

    We aren't following the regulations but we're interpreting them in a way that let's us do what we want, which we think is pretty much the same thing.

    Peen on
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    It's some supervillain shit, like Elon's goddamned totally not a lottery because I'm very rich and very amoral and your country is set up to enshrine me shit

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    wow, it's an Air-Bud-style "ain't no law that says I can't turn a fleet of murder-capable robots loose in the streets"

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    agencies love people saying they'll self regulate

    they don't have the money to do inspections and audits
    and then they're one step separated from being at fault if something goes wrong

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Oh, they have the money.

    But think of the returns to shareholders if they don’t spend the money.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Oh, they have the money.

    But think of the returns to shareholders if they don’t spend the money.

    oh I meant the government agencies don't have the money

    the corporations certainly do, while also having the incentive to not spend it

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    Decided to put the order in for the new MBP 14.

    It is crazy how much memory and SSD upgrades are.

    24gb to 48gb is an extra $500cdn.

    Decided to just upgrade the CPU and go for the 1TB SSD.

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    there appears to be a massive Verizon internet outage going on, NYC and DC areas, PA, all over the east coast.

    The universe is trying really hard to turn me into a hermit lately.

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    Having a moment of choice as my Pixel 4a starts going downhill

    I could either get a new smartphone on payments, and stay yoked to Google, or I could get a feature/"dumb" phone of some flavor (which is becoming an increasingly healthy market as of late)

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