pHr34kY

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I’ve now got NGK plugs, leads and coils in my 21 year old car. They definitely don’t need replacing often. Especially of you go iridium.

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Filco Majestouch keyboard. I’ve been programming on mine for over 5 years.

It probably won’t outlast my IBM Model M, but it does feel lighter on the fingers.

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The internal board of my model M survived the dishwasher. In fact, it fixed it. They’re tough.

I have an OG early 90s model with a birth certificate on the back.

pHr34kY,

21 minutes. Mother of God.

pHr34kY,

And that’s the SLOW way!

pHr34kY,

I saw this meme so long ago that I think it was made using a flatbed scanner and uploaded on dialup.

pHr34kY,

I built a house with a garage. I laugh at the frostbitten peasant cruisers on a cold morning.

Sometimes I wash my car an hour before a thunderstorm. You can get away with these things.

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The spying is horrendous. Even after taking so many measures, I still swear I’m eavesdropped occasionally. Ad blockers, private DNS, Firefox containers, GrapheneOS on my phone (I only install messenger, not the Facebook app). I don’t use Facebook on Windows.

I wouldn’t be surprised if other people’s devices are collecting info about me. I have no control over that.

Unfortunately it’s at a point that I won’t get invited to parties without it. It’s how my friends all organise events.

pHr34kY,

I spent way too much of my childhood playing Jones in the Fast Lane. It plays on ScummVM these days.

pHr34kY,

He stepped back from running his company and got into philanthropy. That’s what all billionaires should do.

Once you’ve taken enough, you’ve gotta work on how to give it all back.

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They’re the friendliest ones.

I have stopped and set fire to three redback nests this week, but there’s a huntsman happily living in my garage right now who isn’t going to harm anyone.

pHr34kY, (edited )

If you learn the katakana alphabet, most signs and menus in Japan are like this. They’re just English words approximated to sounds in Japanese speech.

It’s like, 70 characters. Not huge at all.

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I did my first trip to Tokyo a few months ago. A week before leaving I started playing a kana learning game on my phone while I was on the train to work. I also played it during the flight over.

Two things I figured out:

  1. Just learn katakana. Even if you do learn hiragana, it just sounds out the japanase words that you don’t know anyway. Katakana seemed to be used exclusively for English pronunciation.
  2. It’s actually fun. The majority of signs and labels are bilingual and you will see English and Katakana side-by-side. Once I walked into a cafe (in Disneyland) that had no English menu. The whole thing was katakana. I figured out how to order a “ka-fe ra-te” (cafe latte) and a “ko-ka ko-ra” (Coca Cola). I was so pleased with myself.
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Absolutely.

Changing the oil in your car only requires a spanner, pan, and household stuff like cloth rags. You can do it in your driveway faster than you can drive it round-trip to the dealership. I’ve saved heaps over the years.

House painting is a good skill. I knocked over $20k off my house build price by picking up a paintbrush. It was about 2 weeks of work and maybe $1k in supplies.

Learn computer maintenance. Like, how to format it and start over. How to diagnose and fix small issues. So many people buy new computers just because their old one is clogged with cruft. I fixed computers that others threw out, and avoided upgrade costs for decades.

Most importantly - learn to cook. Home cooking is so much cheaper.

pHr34kY,

You get off the line to get across the intersection so that everyone queued behind you can get across before the light turns red again.

I’m amazed that so many people fail to realise that there is a solid time penalty for dawdling off the line.

pHr34kY,

You never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.

Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven’t had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.

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Dude, a “1.44MB” floppy disk was 1.38MiB once formatted (1,474,560 B raw). It’s been going on for eternity.

It’s inconsistent across time though. 700MB on a CD-R was MiB, but a 4.7GB DVD was not.

RAM has always, without exception, been reported in 1024 B per KB. Inversely, network bandwidth has been 1000 B per KB for every application since the dialup days (and prior).

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I have an F105 because the backlight is really nice in darkness compared to the F91W. For special occasions, I just got an A168, which is basically the F105 in gold.

I can wear the F105 while playing baseball. It won’t break, and it’s a cheap fix if it ever does.

Changing the batteries every 7 years is annoying enough. I couldn’t imagine one that has to be charged daily.

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Any product name which starts with “smart” or ends with “maker”.

Both are just e-waste OOTB.

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The Huntsman - Australia’s friendliest spider.

pHr34kY,

My wife does this, but there was a time that I was sidetalkin’ on a Nokia N-Gage so we’re square.

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I got a new house with LEDs and at night it’s lit like a 7-Eleven. I feel it’s part of the reason I never get to sleep before midnight.

pHr34kY,

OMG those are amazing for hosing down the shower walls or washing your dog.

pHr34kY,

Microsoft just started selling spare parts for an xbox controller.

Fixing a drifting thumbstick is 80% the cost of a new controller in parts alone. You can fix it for $5 if you go aftermarket and are happy desoldering over 10 points to remove it.

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The problem is that the thumbsticks are soldered onto the motherboard. Microsoft’s “fix” is replacing the whole motherboard, when the sticks should really be swappable.

In a Nintendo Switch, the sticks are held in by screws and connect via a ZIF connector.

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