@alexcox@mastodon.social Have many VHS-C & Hi8 videos of 1990’s Christmas mornings with children opening such presents. Ha to smell of styrofoam, never noticed it from behind the camcorder but I’m sure my children would remember it.
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Electronics hobbyist since high school, cameras since 1972, computers since 1978, smartphones since 2008. Can never get enough. (Also loves penguins).
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social
@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Remember the 1970’s roasts of famous 1940-50’s actors & comedians, think there was one of Ronald Reagan too. If you were old enough to remember the people at the roast it was amusing television, today I can’t imagine how I watched so many of those 🙁
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@sixcolors@zeppelin.flights
@sixcolors@zeppelin.flights Thanks, very ingenious program. The notch behavior changes on my M3 Max MBP depending on whether the computer is booted into its own screen or into a Studio Display (menus don’t display the same around the notch). I wonder how Bartender deals with that.
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@sjvn@mastodon.social
@sjvn@mastodon.social Good joke, but not funny about Space Black scratches. My Space Black M3 Max MBP does scratch too easily, sent it in for repair after a liquid spill & Apple covered the ports with plastic so they could plug & unplug devices without scratching it. No better example if even Apple has to avoid scratching a Space Black MBP 🙂
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@luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social
@luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social @ACM@mastodon.acm.org It seems impossible for the EU or any country to regulate how software is created. The end result is either a hardware product run by software or a software product delivered as a working system that users cannot change. No-one but the original program developer knows how it was created or maintained.
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@simonbp@social.linux.pizza
@simonbp@social.linux.pizza @AirlineReporter@avgeek.social Wow, great story about an aircraft pioneer I never heard of. Thanks for sharing.
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io
@shanselman Thanks, great article. Did much programming on original IBM PC in C & Assembler when worked in Switzerland in 1980’s, saved all my programs electronically instead of on printer paper. Same format with detailed explanations as with Tim Paterson’s code. Glad I could follow in the footsteps of giants 🙂
@tvaziri@mastodon.social Did you drop your iPhone recently? The increase in weight of the 17 Pro Max over last year’s 16 Pro Max was enough for me 🙁
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@scalzi@mastodon.social
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@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
@Migueldeicaza Never used Chrome except to interact with Google Drive until a house utility website started acting funny on Safari & only Chrome would fix it. Luckily the website was fixed a month later & now works on Safari again 🙂
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@sixcolors@zeppelin.flights
@sixcolors Wow thanks, a great story & excellent links to the past 🙂
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@jamesthomson@mastodon.social
@jamesthomson Great remembrance, thanks. I started with iPod in 2005, Mac Pro in 2009, then iPhone in 2015 & never looked back. Very happy with my life choices that included Apple, & now I can buy iPhones, Macs, & iPads for my grandchildren 🙂
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@TidBITS@mastodon.social
@TidBITS I did the same, starting with a 2009 Mac Pro & then moving to the 27” iMac several years later. And I too use an MBP, in my case a 16” M3 Max, with a Studio Display. My only quibble is buy a metal stand to raise the Studio Display, don’t use books (I bought the height-adjustable stand for $400) 🙂
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@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space
@kenshirriff Thanks, great article & a part of computer history unknown to a non-defense software engineer. Started my career in military communications, was one of the first users of ARPANET in 1976, but had no idea what flight computers were in use at the time. Now I do 🙂
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@cvvhrn@sfba.social
@cvvhrn Yes to Star Wars in 1977. When that spaceship flew over our heads at the beginning we knew we were seeing something very different 🙂
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@BenRiceM@mastodon.social
@BenRiceM It used to be in the era of blood-letting, doubt it’s a “thing” now 🙂
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@simonharper@mastodon.social
@simonharper@mastodon.social @KingShawn@mastodon.social @gedeonm@mastodon.social Americans, Canadians, & Mexicans used to be able to travel to all 3 countries without a passport, though that’s certainly changed now. Interesting about the Schengen Agreement, I suspected there was something like that. We lived in Switzerland so no EU travel for us, though as Americans we couldn’t have it anyway.
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@simonharper@mastodon.social
@simonharper@mastodon.social @KingShawn@mastodon.social @gedeonm@mastodon.social Europeans need a passport to go anywhere, or at least they did when I lived there in 1980’s. North Americans can travel 1000’s of miles (or km) without needing a passport so the percentage of people holding one is much lower.
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@tvaziri@mastodon.social
@tvaziri There’s actually a great true story that took place in Africa during WW1 when the British dragged gunboats overland to take control of Lake Tanganyika. Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn did it the easy way in “The African Queen” but no-one’s made a movie of the real story 🙁
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@david@weaknotes.com
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@david@weaknotes.com
@david @ryanpoolos @siracusa I can’t pay my house gas bill on my M3 Max MBP without switching to Chrome. Need a Safari extension to pretend it’s Chrome (once had one for IE long ago). Oh well, let’s hope this works itself out eventually, though I’m not sure how 🙁
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@coreyspowell@mastodon.social
@coreyspowell @stroughtonsmith Wow, beautiful. Have seen a “shield eruption” from Kilauea in 2003 where you can walk around the lava flowing out of the ground. Niece lived on Big Island for several years, eruptions & lava flows finally drove her out 🙁
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@jimmylittle@hachyderm.io
@jimmylittle@hachyderm.io @caseyliss@mastodon.social I put ripped DVD’s & TCM recordings on a Mac mini with an 8TB drive with appropriate names & folders to separate movie types. Path Finder program works perfectly to display file names & movie title frames I save as VLC snapshots from each movie file. Took many years to accumulate & setup but has carried us into old age 🙂
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@davidzipper@mastodon.social
@davidzipper@mastodon.social Lived 5 years in Switzerland where living close together is regulated by common behavior regarding noise & other distractions. No such common behavior is found in the US, where people do what they want when they want. That won’t easily change, living close together in the US very difficult 🙁
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@alexcox@mastodon.social
@alexcox@mastodon.social Lived in Switzerland during 1980’s, AIDS just an article in American newspapers. Daughter moved to SoHo in 2020’s when we saw RENT onstage, finally realized what happened there during AIDS epidemic. The tragic death of the playwright & songwriter on the eve of the production just made the story even sadder.
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@mikahsargent@mastodon.social
@mikahsargent Ha, I don’t think that’s unusual. My parents generation of the 1940’s were brought up to be polite, in their day everyone was “Mr” or “Mrs” or “Miss” Jones unless they told you their first name (& that’s still true in many European cultures). We got over that but the rest of it stuck 🙂
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@flargh@mastodon.social
@flargh Beaten up for not supporting Reagan? Ron wouldn’t have approved of such behavior. Lived in Switzerland during much of Reagan administration, when Berlin Wall fell the Europeans were thanking him profusely for telling Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”. Didn’t know anything about the younger generation then, weren’t sure they knew who Reagan was.
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@glennf@twit.social
@glennf Never used either, but my kids are avid Instagram users. They say I should put some of my thousands of digitized film photos on Instagram, but I can’t see sharing our private lives. And who wants to see the world in the 1980’s anyway?
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@sustainrelease@mastodon.social
@sustainrelease@mastodon.social @kevinctofel@hachyderm.io That is a good idea. I use wire twist ties from the grocery store which also works great 🙂
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@dramypsyd@ohai.social
@dramypsyd@ohai.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I’m almost one of those (old) ages, and the prime joke, though funny, is no joke to me 🙁