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Closeup of my tiny TVs: Sony Watchman (CRT, 1984), Radio Shack Portavision (5" color CRT, 1997), Radio Shack Portavision 28 (3.3" color LCD, 1994), and 1990s earbud.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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VERY urgent that you guys backup and archive AngelFire sites, we probably have like 2 weeks.

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Everything is a disorder if human beings are supposed to be quiet and compliant no matter the circumstances.

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@hazlin @apropos yeah this is in line with the great reset thing they wanted to do
make gas and jet fuel expensive as hell so it kills global travel, then force you into a 15 minute city with glorified golf carts

@noyoushutthefuckupdad Move to New Hampshire and at least you won't have to pay car insurance.

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Insurance is a total scam, and I'm required by law to pay for it :AngeryCat:

@gabriel I do not take anyone who combines psychology with their own personal politics seriously. That's a dangerous combination as it just leads you to believe that anyone who disagrees with you is mentally ill.

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I don't vote but I went to a big orange rally in Kenosha in 2020 for the hell of it ... I remember looking around at all these people, a lot from Chicago or Milwaukee, and they gave of a vibe of, "well ... I guess this is the guy..." .. but now that I look back at the whole 10 years, I feel like a lot of the political narrative was directed in such a manner to turn people against each other.

Most people aren't hard left or right, but the people in the middle; the independents, anarchos, libertarians, volunteerists .. and right now even if they're all against going to war for Israel, none of them are going to stand with each other. It's amazingly constructed when you look at it.
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@nanook My company actually pulled out of Europe. I want to say almost a decade ago when the GDPR and some other legislation predating that were passed. We decided to call it quits in Europe. It's an over regulated impoverished shit hole where any efficiency and improvements in operating their are dwarfed by the costs. It was roughly the same cost for us to ship goods into Europe via expedited shipping as it was to operate a warehouse in Europe and ship from within. The delivery time and cost ended up being about the same. The question became why bother when the amount of regulation we had to comply with kept on increasing. It eventually became not-worth-it. The consequences are Europeans are now at a disadvantage and can not obtain the hardware and accessories that work with GNU/Linux properly quite as easily. The one positive about operating from within Europe is users don't have to deal with customs. Now they do. They did this to themselves.

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For someone out of the loop, can you explain to me what's going on in Ireland? Preferably someone who doesn't hate the Irish people.

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>I remember Lunduke, who bleeps out swears, went out of his way to quote that one exactly.

It seems like he wants to go by FCC radio logic where the seven words are bad but slurs are fine.

>Ugh, how the fuck does DeVault have any friends?

One of life's greatest mysteries. I'm surprise that he has a following given that he was infamous on programming calculator forums for hijacking communities and causing pointless drama, and not just related to politics or religion either. He threaten to leave the Omnimaga forums (the community he contributed to the most in his early years) unless a MLP thread that he didn't have to participate in was locked (this was back when the brony phenomenon was starting to take off), and the staff locked the thread only because he contributed so much to the forum that they couldn't let him go. He only got banned from the forum after deleting their IRC channel and a thread on someone else's calculator language because he couldn't win an argument against someone. Not only that, but he apparently was also known for posting porn links when nobody asked (no archives unfortunately, but was claimed by users of said forums).

If people would just remove their political bias for one moment and see how he acted on those forums, I'm pretty sure people would think less highly of him.

@coolboymew I thought Nicalis abandoned that version long ago.

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I don't understand. They already force fucking e-mail codes on nearly every fucking login all the damn time!

I'm either going to migrate to Codeberg or just setup my own Forgejo.

@djsumdog You're better off doing the latter as Codeberg's CEO is friends with Drew DeVault and wrote an entire blogpost about their stance against "right-wing extremism" after someone merely created a throw away account to just post "NIGGERBALLS" on their issue tracker.

There are also some Git-over-Nostr solutions if you want something even more decentralized.

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Concerns about voice doxxing? Try voxchan today to preserve your voice anonymity (wip) : https://v.4x13.net

Shit like this makes me wonder if I would've been happier if I joined the RPGCodex forums instead of here back in 2020. (Decided to join either that or fedi after all the 8/v/ bunker drama) At least on a forum I can sort of avoid the politisperging and talk about my hobbies. I only picked this place because I'm not particularly interested in CRPGs and I was in favor of decentralization.

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