The Tech Random Crap Thread

" Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. "
It was a computer so caked with cigarette-stained fuzz and dust that it looked like someone had decided to artfully glue dried-up, dead decorative moss to the case to make it look like a miniaturized skyscraper building you'd see from a post-apocalyptic video game.

--Patrick
 
I'm sure it's completely unrelated.

--Patrick
 


With the Tech sphere so full of terrible things these days (the misuse and abuse of AI technology, social media destroying civilization, etc.), here's something hopeful. Dami Lee has a new video about tech being used for Good. Very insightful stuff about technology design.
 
I haven't clicked on the video yet, but I listened to an audiobook last month called Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis that talks all about this. It's possible the video cites this, but yeah, it's scary watching the trajectory capitalists like Musk are following.
 

GasBandit

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I haven't clicked on the video yet, but I listened to an audiobook last month called Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis that talks all about this. It's possible the video cites this, but yeah, it's scary watching the trajectory capitalists like Musk are following.
Yep, he cites Varoufakis a lot in the video.
 

GasBandit

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Apparently 30% of Australia went offline today due to dumbshittery. Reading an imgur comment thread about it, I suddenly started having a twitch response.

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Well, it was fun while it lasted, I guess.


"But if you've been hosting your own Plex server to maintain access to your stuff while you're away or relying on the kindness of non-Pass-having friends with servers, either you or your server-owning friends will need a Plex Pass subscription by the end of April."
 

GasBandit

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Your server-owning friend is, indeed, a plex-pass lifetime member.

If I wasn't though, I'm sure the Jellyfin guys are really looking forward to an influx of people who are driven away from plex by this.
 

figmentPez

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Anyone else remember the brief window when PS2 mice had higher polling rates than USB mice, if you used software to bump up the PS2 polling rate?
 

GasBandit

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Anyone else remember the brief window when PS2 mice had higher polling rates than USB mice, if you used software to bump up the PS2 polling rate?
To be honest, no.... PS/2 mice were SO much better than my previoud DB9 serial mice, I stayed with them practically until PS/2 ports started going away. I even continued using USB to PS/2 adapters to put my new USB mice in the PS/2 port, just to not use the USB ports. So I never really had the opportunity to cross-compare the two.
 
I even continued using USB to PS/2 adapters to put my new USB mice in the PS/2 port, just to not use the USB ports. So I never really had the opportunity to cross-compare the two.
TIL:
What you may not know is that this small, green adapter was purely a mechanical component[...]The adapter simply connected one set of pins to another, but featured zero circuitry. Indeed, it was the mouse (or keyboard, or whatever other device you were trying to use) that did all the work.
--Patrick
 
Interestingly, new PC's at work actually seem to consistently have ps/2 ports for some reason.
Probably for BIOS reasons. Not as big of a deal with computers that use EFI/UEFI, but PS/2 keyboards are almost always guaranteed to work in BIOS, while USB keyboards are not.

--Patrick
 
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