I loved the design on the Samsung S8 with the edge displays. Especially when the screen was dark and it was laying on the desk, it looked like a thing from the future. Without a cover it looked awesome and I often had friends with iphones comment they loved how it looked. In actual use it was a nightmare, the edge screen was often prone to ghost inputs. A glass screen protector was very visible, even the special ones that included a bit of a curve on the end. This ruined the design. And the back of the phone was glass as well, which made it look really good, but was actually a design flaw. To save on weight and costs it was an ultra thin glass and broke all the damn time. And not like the laminated screens where a crack is bad, but still usable, it was just straight glass so it would be very sharp and spew tiny glass fragments all over the place. Because the whole thing was glass with only a thin small aluminium frame, the thing flexed quite a bit and every time it flexed the back would crack. So you needed to really be very careful with the phone. Or put a cover around it, which made the whole design completely pointless.

After a while Samsung put a software update on the phone which the cpu and memory could simply not handle. It ruined the battery life, the thing got hot all the time and the UI stuttered like crazy. Since I had also replaced the back a couple of times and the front had a crack in it, I didn’t went the custom ROM way but instead like an idiot upgraded to the S10 (which is exactly what Samsung wanted). I always thought the S8 was the best looking phone I ever had.

Very cool to see this design, it looks great.

Just as a counterpoint on AIO coolers. I’ve used a Corsair H150i for years now, first on my Ryzen 3950X and later the same cooler on my 5950X. It’s super quiet, runs crazy high boost clocks and has excellent RGB / fanspeed control. I have a relatively small case and have the 360 radiator in the front (with an open mesh in front of it).

So your mileage may vary, some may be bad, but it’s not all of them.

So you’re saying Relational DataBase Management Systems do really well as soon as Relations are involved?

I’ve seen this often. The app is marketed as being “api” first as if that’s some benefit to the user of a SaaS application. However in reality much of the team is constantly busy patching the old legacy V1 api to keep it running. And management won’t authorize the budget to create a new api version that replaces the old one, because it still works right?

Public facing web apis have always been a pet peeve of mine. So often the team uses the api their own frontend uses as the public facing api customers should use for integrations. Which on the surface seems smart, why implement and manage two apis that’s just overhead. But in reality the apis suitable for a frontend (or often that specific frontend) isn’t suitable for integrations at all. They both have a completely different target user and completely different requirements.

But hey we’ll just market it as “headless”, because one could totally put in the years of work and money we put in to create our front-end, if they really wanted to. Totally realistic thing that happens.

Please note you should NEVER flush any baby wipes or similar down the toilet. They should go in the trash if you must use them, but using washable alternatives (if you have a baby for example) if possible is better. Baby wipes contain a lot of plastic. If you flush them they might clog up the toilet, which you might not care about at work. But if it doesn’t clog up the toilet, it gets into the sewer and causes trouble there, trouble your tax money / water bill money goes to fix. If it does go through smoothly it will in the worst case end up in rivers and oceans, floating around for a long time before degrading into microplastics.

Yeah I’ve seen this thing before and think it’s a neat design but not really worth funding tbh. In the end it’s just a Pi with a screen too small to be useful and a keyboard that would be terrible to use. Do we really need to fund more plastic crap? They could just put the designs online so people can 3D print them themselves, and put it on a service like pcbway for people that want a high quality version. People already do that all the time.

If they would design an interface for it as well, that would be really cool. Then it could be a useful thing definitely worth funding. But with a vanilla Pi Linux the user experience would be terrible.

Yeah the “Analog stick” is just a DPad, it doesn’t have pots or anything like that, just binary buttons. And I have to say, it’s terrible. It feels bad, it pushes your thumb upwards with a really awkward angle. For some reason it’s really hard shiny plastic and the edge stands up so it digs into your flesh. It’s concave instead of convex like modern sticks are (and even sticks back then were really). Doing fast inputs is impossible since you need to move it quite far before it responds and diagonals don’t work very well at all.

So it sucks, but it just adds to the charm as far as I’m concerned.

One trip to my trusty room of boxes full of old shit and I found it!

Along with its official carrier case and TV out cable in original packaging. The screen protector has seen better days tho.

And it still works just fine:

Yeah I think I have one of those still around somewhere. I remember when they released it they didn’t release any sources at all, even though it was full of software that required sharing in their license. So the community got together and helped them publish it all. Some of the drivers were still binary blobs, but that was the maker of the chips fault and not GameParks fault.

Once I got one I created a small little side scrolling game engine and a couple of games for it, a couple of other people used my engine to make some games for it as well. To imagine that’s 20 years ago. We had a small little forum of enthusiasts setup and shared code in attachments. It’s all lost to time now, but those were the days.

Can someone explain the joke to the Europeans? We don’t have either of those and I have no idea what this means. I know Best Buy is a electronics store and Home Depot is a hardware store, but I have no idea what the parking lots have to do with it. In Europe it’s more common for shops to be all close together with a shared parking lot in between.

What are you talking about? Java runs on millions of devices!

That’s not how orbital mechanics work

It’s a variation on the default post causes masturbation copy-pasta. I think there are at least a couple dozen variations and most of them are glorious.

PLEASE put an NFSW tag on your post.

I immediately started masturbating furiously in the bus in front of 43 people. They realized what was going on, opened Lemmy to this post and all 43 started to fap furiously too. Even the 64 year old Malaysian nun on the front seat couldn’t contain herself - her entire arm was up her vagina as she screamed with pleasure.

I was so horny that my phone flew out of my hand & broke through the window, letting in a relentless tide of horny pigeons who were instantly fucked to death by the passengers. The nun shoved an entire pigeon family up her v. Now there is a bus full of exhausted passengers, dead pigeons and buckets of cum and squirt, all because you posted this.

My first experience in an airplane was quite different actually. In my mind as a child an airplane was this amazing thing that just flew, I had seen pictures of how it looked and thought it was a static thing that people sat in as it flew around.

The reality was quite different, the thing was a bit scoffed up and looked used. I kept thinking how the seats look like the seats on a bus. Not dirty exactly, but used looking and the kind of material you don’t see stains too well and cleans easily. The noise was a lot to handle, not just the roar of the engines and the sound of the air going past, but all of the groins and creaks. And it wasn’t static at all, everything was shaking and moving around, panel gaps showing. I saw the wings go from hanging down to pointing up as the weight of the aircraft hung from the wings. In my mind metal was hard and shouldn’t move as much as it did. Getting on and off was just a ramp that was shoved near the plane from the gate, with a gap in between a flap was laid over. It looked nothing like the high-tech environment I imagined. And flying through the air wasn’t as I imagined, at those speeds it’s more like being under water than going through nothing as I imagined. The plane reacts to currents in the air, getting pushed to the sides and up and down, not the perfectly straight and stable ride I imagined.

So in the end I decided a plane is very much like a bus and that makes sense as it does pretty much the same thing, carry a bunch people from a to b all of the time.

The only thing that surprised me was at take off how much power the thing has. In a bus the engine is usually very underpowered, just enough to get up to speed in the most efficient way. With an airplane the power to weight ratio is crazy, it’s more like driving a really fast car than a bus. But other than at take off, it’s pretty much a bus.

And bring him to a free clinic to see after his bunghole.

Good, from a certain point of view

Back when token ring was designed normally networks would use coaxial cables for communication. No matter if it ran ethernet, token ring or something else, everybody would share basically a single cable. The cable would have T connectors inserted to connect a computer and the end of the cable needed something to terminate it. It didn’t need to be a single line, you could have splits and even a star like design, although there were limitations.

And you are right, any disruption anywhere on the line meant the network would go do. That might be someone removing the termination cap on the end, or simply the line being broken somewhere. However because computers were usually connected using T splitters, it didn’t really matter if the computer was connected or not. But the connection not being terminated properly could be an issue. Especially if there was another cable connected to the T before being connected to the computer.

Normally in a room the cable would be laid out like a ring although it usually wouldn’t be a closed ring, but instead terminated on one end. This meant each computer would be connected to its direct neighbors, but this wouldn’t be an active thing. It wasn’t like the computer could only transmit to its neighbors and then they needed to pass it on. It was like a shared line, where everyone could transmit and every computer would receive everything transmitted.

When everything switched over to the regular twisted pair cables we know today, it didn’t really change from a communications point of view. Every computer wasn’t connected to their neighbors but instead to a hub, but just like before anything anyone transmitted could be received by anyone on the network. It wasn’t until much later when things like switches became commonplace and not everyone got all the traffic.

Very true, I would do the same and feel my stomach drop farther each time.