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kalleboo

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Generic iOS dev guy living in Japan. Into #VintageApple #RetroComputing. Apologies for being an extremely boring person. 🇸🇪→🇯🇵

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kalleboo, to Japan
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Our eldest daughter is starting elementary school in in April and we have to submit bank details for a direct debit for school fees

The debit system used is some local thing only supported by the local banks, and the application is done on paper.

There's a pre-filled out section for how the school is going to submit the debits with the options for

  • Paper ledger
  • Floppy Disk
  • Magneto-optical
  • DVD
  • Data transmission

I'm sad to say my daughters school did not choose floppy disk 😢

kiwa, to random
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hey i saw one of these on a youtube video yesterday, interesting, kinda gives me portable computer from the 80s vibes

kalleboo,
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@kiwa <3 techmoan

billgoats, to random
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Are you feeling beach body ready?

kalleboo,
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@vga256 @billgoats I lived in Sweden before. It freezes first near the shoreline since the water is more shallow there (water keeps and moderates temperature well) and you can jump around and punch holes in it with your shoes it's great fun as a kid.

SomeGadgetGuy, to tech
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I hate sounding like the old guy in the room when I say things like "phone design used to be more fun". I mean, I AM the old guy in the room, but I hate SOUNDING like the old guy complaining about new tech.

Frosted gradients. Laser etched glossy. Bold primary color polycarb. Metal and leather. Different form factors and features... Sigh...

We didn't know how good we had it...

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kalleboo,
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@SomeGadgetGuy @drahardja And you're talking about smartphones, which were always boring. Give me back the exciting feature phone days, where a literally transparent screen seemed like an exciting idea

(the Sony Ericsson Pureness was an actual product actually sold at retail)

A feature phone with a black and white transparent screen, showing a street behind a screen with a clock on it
A feature phone with a black and white transparent screen, showing a hand behind a menu
A feature phone with a black and white transparent screen, showing plants behind a boot logo

kalleboo, to random
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If I start hallucinating, it's because I tried the AI cola flavor

Viss, to random
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spotted on imgur.
something i figured @foone might appreciate

kalleboo,
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@Viss @foone I prefer the SCSI one

kalleboo, to retrocomputing
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Merry Christmas everyone!

Here is "Christmas 87" by Brian Needham, a Mac program I remember from our Mac Classic back in the day.
I couldn't even find a reference to it online (just a reference from Ingemar Ragnemalm who made an inspired sequel in 1997) but managed to dig it up from an old backup CD-R.

Since I'm at my parents away from my machines, I'm cheating and using Infinite Mac to emulate it

A black and white Christmas puzzle running in an emulated classic Mac

paulrickards, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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Was there ever a way to make the sizes of files not be truncated in System 6 list view?

Update: Yes, there was! See next post.

kalleboo,
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@paulrickards I remember having some third party program that would tweak the System 6 Finder (probably editing some resource directly) to change stuff like column sizes/order. No recollection what it was called

kalleboo,
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@paulrickards Found it! https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/layout-19

kiwa, to random
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This is my favorite thing ever, you can make so much cursed stuff with it, but it's so useful for powering old laptops and random weird stuff, love it

kalleboo,
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@kiwa I have a similar kit, extremely useful, but I’ve never seen this thing before, WTH is that?!

kalleboo, to random
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I'm at that point that I need to be offline for a week, see y'all later.

SinclairSpeccy, to random

If there's one thing AI is good at, it is making alt text for me. It may not be perfect, but it bloody darn works for me.

You could argue I am being lazy but it does a good job of describing stuff when I can’t

kalleboo,
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@SinclairSpeccy What are you using?

I’m terrible at describing things in text, that’s the reason I post a lot of images in the first place!

kalleboo, to random
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Send an email to anywhere in Australia for just 25 cents https://youtu.be/FIwXZmJXBJA

kiwa, to random
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Compaq charger

kalleboo,
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@kiwa A Merlion! It must have also been designed in Singapore in addition to being assembled there.

kalleboo, to random
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CRUNKY - GET WILD

layoutSubviews, to random
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“I need a multi-terabytes configuration because with a few Xcodes, a few simulators, it adds up real quick”

Really⁉️ I have the current Xcode, Xcode beta, and Xcode n-1 installed when relevant, plus some simulators. It doesn’t take more than 150GB at most; We should stop using Xcode as a scapegoat to justify our materialistic impulses.

kalleboo,
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@layoutSubviews Yeah I reacted to that too. I have 1 TB and it's fine for iOS dev. Insisting on syncing your whole 2 TB photo library to your laptop seems like it's the real problem.

Whateve, rich people gonna rich

kalleboo,
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@layoutSubviews I just meant in their specific case, they probably have the wrong idea about how much storage is used by dev tools since they're using way more space on other stuff so they come to the wrong conclusion

starshine, to random
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the eu is fucking wild man
“hey, we just passed landmark privacy regulations!”
“oh by the way we’re trying to mandate backdoors into every encryption scheme”
“we are forcing google, apple, and microsoft to stop locking down their ecosystems!”
“oh yeah we’re also trying to mandate backdoors in all browsers’ certificate stacks”
“anti-adblock is spyware ^_^ we’re suing youtube”

kalleboo,
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@starshine @apicultor It's cuz the EU has the commission that is assigned by the governments of each member country, and the EU parliament that is elected by the citizens of each member country.

Guess which one does the good stuff and which one does the bad stuff.

kiwa, to random
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the powerbook has some internet explorer cache from 2000-2001

a macintosh screenshot, it's internet explorer, it's some kind of website from bonzi.com, it's a software called internetboost 99
a macintosh screenshot with internet explorer, it's the microsoft zone.com site.
a website called internet chess club with links to download windows software.

kalleboo,
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@kiwa The best thing about Opera was how you could set it to not load images to start and then just load them on-demand

kalleboo,
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@kiwa Digital devices to kill VCRs???? Never!

kalleboo, to random
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A blackboard with IKEAクリスマスパーティ and a blåhaj with a party popper

jamesthomson, to random
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Kind of disappointing that the spatial video recording on the iPhone 15 Pro is only 1080p and 30fps. Aside from that resolution being pretty low, framerate makes such a big difference to 3D video. I guess this will improve in future phones.

kalleboo,
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@jamesthomson At least it's a bump from the 720p/15fps of me previous 3D camera!

drahardja, to cars
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The NHTSA advises against turning your airbag into a claymore mine.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/feds-warn-rhinestone-steering-wheel-decorations-can-become-shrapnel

kalleboo,
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@drahardja The manual for my car only warns against stickers, it needs an update!

ismh, to random
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I need to speak to the person at Apple who wrote this UI copy.

kalleboo,
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@marcoarment @ismh Logic predates OS X so my bet would be this is a holdover from some absolutely prehistoric event handling code.

kalleboo, (edited ) to Japan Japanese
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I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

kalleboo,
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It felt incomplete with just 3 parts (not enough to make it full height and it was missing a top part) so I went back to complete the set... Now it's perfect!

The rear of the toy network rack revealing the cable management

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