I made custom vinyl decals that make a 2021 MacBook Pro look like an early 2000s titanium PowerBook G4.
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Interdimensional time traveller, showing the world cursed tech products from alternate timelines.
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In an alternate timeline, after the mandated rollout of Chat Control messaging apps started implementing multi-stage read receipts that indicate when messages have been scanned and approved before being read by the recipient.
In an alternate timeline, Apple also retroactively increased the price of iPods by $200.
That's the last time I ever buy a UK-region Game Boy Camera...
In an alternate timeline, watchOS 27 adds Offensive Gesture Detection which uses the accelerometer and gyroscope with machine learning to detect if the user is making offensive gestures and will automatically take the necessary corrective actions.
"Hatsune Miku confessed to Agent 47 but was rejected and fell into a deep sadness before being cured by playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby" was not a sentence I thought I'd ever say and yet here we are.
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@jnazario@infosec.exchange
@jnazario@infosec.exchange @KormaChameleon@tech.lgbt DJ Hero came out that year, so this could have been the perfect mobile device to play it on.
In 2009, Apple experimented with an iPod built for mobile gaming with a second Click Wheel used for control inputs. It was canned after an engineer showed Jobs and he struggled to complete a game of Tetris due to Click Wheel drift.
Experience survival horror the way it was meant to be played - through a supermarket barcode scanner with the gun mapped to a 1D barcode.
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@michi@wetdry.world
This was achieved through he use of moonlight-N3DS: https://github.com/zoeyjodon/moonlight-N3DS
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@jaykass@mastodon.online
In an alternate timeline, a Windows 11 update bricked millions of PCs after it migrated system32 to OneDrive without permission and then shipped a faulty network driver.
The MacBook Neo was originally planned to accompany the MacBook and the MacBook Pro in 2006 as a 12-inch entry model, however the processor limitations resulted it being shelved. That is, until 20 years later when Apple Silicon finally made it possible.
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@pup@yeen.town
@pup@yeen.town When setting up the PowerBook I used Apple Partition Map and created an extra blank partition. I then cloned the disk image from a working OS 9 VM onto the extra partition before booting into OS X and validating the system directory of the OS 9 partition to make it bootable.
If you thought a Mac with 8GB of memory doing professional creative content editing was impressive, here's a Mac with 0.5GB RAM editing 42MP photos taken on a camera 15 years newer than itself.
In an alternate timeline, Apple brands their products like Sony and Sony brands their products like Apple.
Are you serious?!
#AlternateTimelineNintendo
Just realised OneRepublic's Counting Stars fits almost perfectly with Smile's Butterfly and I don't know what to do with this information.
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@harryprayiv@mastodon.social
@harryprayiv@mastodon.social I'm more baffled when people act like AI is some kind of performance-enhancing drug for their brain...
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@jordgubben@mastodon.gamedev.place
@jordgubben@mastodon.gamedev.place In the original interview, the "we" refers to high-profile figures in the tech community who have criticised AI.
I don't think I've ever seen an emerging technology that's driven CEOs from multiple companies to come out in public and ask people to stop saying mean things about it.