right so i got the PowerBook G4. problem is that the 4 key is extremely sensitive and was actually firing repeatedly. i took the 4 key off and it stopped. the slightest touch of the rubber dome thing makes it fire the 4 key. any ideas on how to fix it?
please boost this post, i don't want to use it without a proper 4 key!
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets
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Good news: RAM will be a non-issue soon
Bad news: This is because we will not get new boards
I got the following news from the supply chain:
All (and I mean ALL) of our PCB subcontractors have turned around and told us minimum 1 year lead time on boards now. Apparently there's no Helium or Neon so they cant make FR4
FR4 is what all boards is made from.
So who cares if you cant get RAM - there's no PCBs to put it on ...
UPDATE: I don't think helium is the problem but PE Resind (polyphenylene ether). Neon may be a problem because it is required for the UV lasers.
@Urban_Hermit Yep!
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement
I love installing old software on new hardware. It flies! Office 2016 is INCREDIBLE and does everything 365 does, but without AI, OneDrive nagging, or hallucinated words in spell check.
I regularly code in Visual Studio 6 (circa 1998) and the exes it compiles are blazingly fast. Even if they're 32-bit. There are no limits, nothing I can't do with VS6 that requires modern tools.
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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116856316653706374
FLOSS is the bare minimum. we need Hippieware!
shoutouts to whoever drew this bunny on one of the classic macs at this computer museum
Independence is a fiction. No person is independent. No group is independent. No country is independent.
There isn’t any phenomenon in the universe that is independent. We just impose that idea on experience to stave off the scary realization that there is no solid, lasting, independent self.
Your uncle: Kids have so much autism today because of all the wifi. Now let me tell you every type of train you could see in South Dakota between 1932 and 1987.
It's even more the case that understanding bad ideas isn't my job when those ideas are rooted in hate and eliminationism. In the most extreme case, I do not need to deeply understand the finer points of Nazi philosophy and theology to rightly conclude that Nazis are bad.
With AI, questions like "is this LLM alive and intelligent" are inherently rooted in eugenics. It is not my job to be fluent in eugenicist euphemisms before I criticize eugenicist movements.
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@fasterandworse here, i fixed it:
why is everything an ecosystem
Hadn't considered this, but it's true. One thing the slopocalypse has done is given professional computer touchers the same bone-chill fear that professional computer touchers have long been happy to force on the unwillingly computer-afflicted: a genuine dread of clicking the update button, knowing both that they have to do it, and absolutely can't trust whatever's going to happen because the people behind that button have taught them they can't be trusted.
iirc this whole ownership debate had already been sparked by Steam's popularity back in the early 2010s? earlier? and then you got gog and DRM free games out of that. so I'm kinda surprised everyones talking about owning discs and not the more fundamental need to freely copy games. but I guess that's never been much of a question in the console world
Maybe we really need to transcend "Open Source" and move towards more of a "community software" or "humane software" kind of direction that puts the focus on Freedom (similar to how Open Source works) but also on responsibility and care for each other and the infrastructures these systems establish.
The "AI" reactions really show how heterogenous the "Open Source" field and the people's and organizations' values are.
“Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company’s newest reCAPTCHA check, rolling out now as a test, asks you to switch on your camera and wave at it so an algorithm can decide whether you’re a human or a bot.
That wave is less casual than it looks. The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping your finger joints, your palm geometry, and the way you move in real time.
Google describes the purpose as liveness detection, a way for websites to fend off automated account creation, credential-stuffing, and other fraud. But this is still a biometric scan, collected so you can prove you’re a person and still involves turning on your cameras for Google.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand
We made a comic about the Super Bowl.
Your computer at work, which has twice as much memory and CPU through put as the one you had 10 years ago is still slow and frustrating because every program is bloated with "apps" to open and edit every other type of file.
No, I do not want to open my Excel spreadsheet in Outlook, or Teams, or my company's preferred browser, or my other browser I like better. I want it to open in GOD DAMN EXCEL!!
So much redundancy and slow loading because of it.
Do the one thing well.