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Count Regal Inkwell

@ VinesNFluff @pawb.social

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Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

  • Ferocious

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  • When you're god's most perfect killing machine but you also fit inside the palm of a hand and people make kissy noises at you.

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  • A pentium 100 shitbox hand built by my ol dad

    This was well into the pentium II era of PC mind

  • They definitely need clearer labels

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  • Brand written big

    What the product is written super tiny

    If I could enshrine 1(one) regulation into law it would be to reverse that.

  • Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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  • Resale. The reason is resale. Between the economy being trashed, planned obsolescence, and cultural shifts. People buy things not really expecting to keep them for very long, and the less individual something is, the easier to sell it on to someone else later.

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  • easier to maintain

    The thing is

    they're kinda not?

    Grey("Silver") on cars kinda is in the sense that it "hides" dirt, but like, that particular shade of landlord beige they use on buildings? That becomes an ugly colour within weeks of exposure to the elements. And would require constant repainting to stay looking good.

    It's all about that resale value and the fact that nowadays no one buys anything expecting to keep it for very long. So the less "personal" things are, the better to pass them along.

  • I miss those days

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  • I think they might use AAAs

    Down to you if that's worse or better.

  • I miss those days

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  • adjusts 🤓 glasses

    So a cassette tape works by using electromagnetism. Ferric Oxide (AKA, literally rust powder) has a property that if exposed to a magnetic field, it will create a weak version of that magnetic field within itself

    So the record head of a tape machine is an electromagnet that changes its field based on the actual audio signal, translating audio frequencies directly to magnetic directions and strengths, while the read head is a passive electromagnetic coil that picks up that weak magnetic field on the rust-coated plastic tape while a small motor runs the tape past it and emits it as a soundwave.

    The tape adapter skips 90% of these steps —

    — It just has an electromagnetic coil of its own, positioned so it lines up with the play head, and when you feed it an audio signal, that audio signal gets directly translated to a magnetic field just by running it through the coil. The tape deck picks it up and doesn't even realise there is no tape running through

  • We all did this, right?

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  • I miss those days

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  • Also buying a whole-ass new car stereo (+ installation) is much more expensive than a bluetooth adaptor from China

    So if you're driving an ancient car out of necessity rather than for the aesthetic, this can help you get music into it.

    F'course

    Most cars from the age of tapes nowadays are relics. "Old cars" in the range that poor people drive out of necessity are from the CD age instead.

  • I miss those days

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  • Love me some anachronism stew.

  • Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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  • The world has less colour.

    This isn't a dramatic "I'm depressed" post, though that is a factor. Nature is still nature-coloured, for one, and it still looks lovely.

    I mean that like, you'd go outside and look at the cars and see a rainbow of colours. Now it's all black, silver, or white. You only see colorful cars if they are really old beat up rustbuckets or if they are brand new luxury vehicles used by super rich people.

    Buildings too. Businesses and the buildings they set up shop in would be painted with garish, eye popping colour. Now everything trends towards landlord-beige.

    Edit: And it should be noted, this happened for a reason, and I am aware of that reason, and that just makes me crankier.

  • Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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  • Yeah. The way bullying happens seems to have changed since my time.

  • I miss those days

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  • They make these things with bluetooth now believe it or not.

    Pair the tape

    Stick it in a cassette player

    Play music on your phone.

  • We are way overdue for an open source 2d printer

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  • It's funny because anecdotally, the entirety of the FOSS movement was started because Richard Stallman was tilted that he had the know-how to fix the printer at the lab he worked at, but was not legally allowed to.

    You'd think "Printers" would have been the first thing the FSF would have tried to create.

  • My inner luddite coming out

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  • Can't wait.

    We'll have sexy space witches and drugs that make your eyes blue

  • Ask A&W

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  • Southern Brazil.

  • Ask A&W

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  • B-Tree burgers.

  • Ask A&W

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  • In my boyfriend's hometown they used to have this restaurant that served this thing called a hubcap burger

    And it was indeed, wide enough to be the hubcap of a car, while being basically flat.

  • Dream job!

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  • Bloody pegasi