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Captain Aggravated

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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

  • [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

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  • That was a limitation of the monitor you were using, not the computer. All models of Apple II to include the Plus, e and c had color graphics. But it was common practice to pair them with monochrome monitors, first because they're cheaper than color monitors, but also...the way the Apple II achieved a 16 color palette was through NTSC artifacting. It only ever tried to send something like six colors over the cable, but when you put two dissimilar colors next to each other, they get smeared together somewhere in the analog domain and they come out some other color. It allowed them to achieve 16 colors, but it had a drawback: Text that was supposed to appear black and white would have green and purple fringes, which made it blurry and hard to read. So if you were using the machine for business or something you might choose a monochrome monitor to get sharper, easier to read text. Apple's first party monochrome monitors were indeed green.

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  • The Apple Macintosh wasn't innovative. Here's how you "innovate" an Apple Mac: Take an existing product of your company, the Apple IIGS. Make that worse by reducing the processor clock speed so your new product will be superior in some way, because your new product is going to lack backwards compatibility, internal expansion card slots, color graphics or multi-channel audio.

    The iMac wasn't innovative. It was an evolution of their existing product line in trendy packaging.

    The iPod wasn't innovative. Even the UI was taken from Creative. Rio beat them to the market by several years.

    The iPad wasn't innovative. I was handed a Dell tablet PC a full decade before the iPad hit the market.

    Apple was innovative twice in its very long history: The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability, and the iPhone had a capacitive touch screen. The most innovative thing Steve Jobs ever said in his life was "You can just use your finger."

  • Microsoft executive vice president bemoans employees sending him "AI slop," saying "This is a doom loop."

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  • You built the world's most resource intensive asshole, you deserve to have your lips sewn around it.

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    US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars

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    US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars

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  • Promise?

    Did you know that the C5 Corvette was one of the most fuel efficient 20th century GM products? It was so fucking aerodynamic that it made 30mpg on the highway, even with its pushrod 2 valve per cylinder 6 liter LS engine rated nearly 400 horsepower. The contemporary fish-eye Camaros were close to that figure as well, when equipped with the 3.6 liter Buick V6, because again they were very aerodynamic.

    It's illegal to build a car that aerodynamic these days because it doesn't pass modern pedestrian safety laws. See, if you're going to kill a pedestrian with a car, you're legally required to make initial contact at thorax height like any of the bus-nosed pickup trucks on the market today, not at shin level like 90's GM sports cars.

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    US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars

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  • But enough about China.

  • I got almost a dollar discount on gas

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  • Okay so my brain is trash and I live on the internet: disposing of gasoline by randomly dumping it into someone's car linked in my brain to the Strong Bad Email "New Hands" where he replaces one of his hands with a bucket. The first thing he thinks of to use his bucket hand for is "dumping oatmeal on stuff" and as he says this a turtle appears at his feet for him to dump oatmeal on.

  • What Movie Soundtrack is BETTER than the movie?

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  • A great movie with an even greater soundtrack:

    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. All of the TOS movies have great soundtracks, but The Voyage Home's score stands out among them. Just that title track, that plays over a flat shot of the fore credits over a starry sky, is this high energy, multi-movement overture that's more exciting than all Star Trek media made after 2008. We used to have potential as a species.

    A shit movie with a legitimately good soundtrack:

    Flashdance, of 1983. To quote Todd In The Shadows, "What most people remember about that movie is water, then Maniac right after that, and then about six hours of boring, and then What A Feeling."

  • What Movie Soundtrack is BETTER than the movie?

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  • Mortal Kombat...I was in the target demographic for it when it came out, it was one of the few video game movies that seemed to resemble its source material at the time, that high energy techno theme song is iconic, and I associate it with "let's have some fun" nights. Those glorious evenings of renting a movie from Blockbuster, ordering a pizza, maybe inviting a friend over. It's not a fantastic film, but a generation of us associate that film with those simple, fun childhood memories, which you will NOT re-live watching it again.

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  • Last Action Hero is alright. It's an on-the-nose send-up of the action genre. AC-DC wrote a song for it, Big Guns.

    It's a very...literal send-up of the action movie genre. if you're not familiar with it, a young boy ends up magically teleported into an action movie he's watching, and spends half of the run time of both films trying to convince the over the top action hero that it's a movie.

    It's fun for what it is; I personally think True Lies does the "lol action movies, amirite?" thing better.

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  • George Lucas turned up to make an homage to the Flash Gordon serials he enjoyed as a kid.

    John Williams turned up to make art.

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  • I saw this rather long retrospective on Pirates of the Caribbean that mentioned Cutthroat Island as the last big pirate movie attempted. The funny thing is, the narrator was talking over footage from the movie, which looked fine. The montage of scenes he put together looked well shot, high production value...yeah the movie's terrible.

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • I outright hate it. For all of Tantacrul's plugging on about design, he really dropped the ball, split his pants bending over for it.

    Yeah the older logo may have looked dated, but I think what I would have done is get rid of the yellow glow behind the waveform and flattened a blue headset with a red wave between, not whatever liberal arts major bullshit this is.

  • Beri wanted a sniff of the phone

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  • Careful analysis of the photographic evidence leads me to believe Beri succeeded in sniffing the phone.

  • Hero cat

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  • Cats are smart, they're just independent enough that it makes them useless for most jobs. Cats have more sensitive noses than bloodhounds, but you'll hold up the escaped prisoner's shirt and say "sniff! Sniff! Now go get him!" and the cat will say "Pssh, you want him, you go get him." and lay down and start licking a paw.

  • Help name my cat.

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  • That's Taco, because he's Puttin' On The Ritz.

  • World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea

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  • I've played with GPS from several different directions. There are a lot of GPS receivers on the hobby electronics market that will offer that level of precision, but not accurately. The aviation wide area augmentation system significantly increases accuracy to the point it can be used for precision instrument approaches.

  • World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea

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  • You think there are hundreds of thousands of GPS satellites in orbit?

  • What's an animal that's MUCH cuter as a baby?

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  • There's a very specific box to piss in. It's the one full of sand.

  • What's an animal that's MUCH cuter as a baby?

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  • Golden Retrievers are cute into adulthood. My neighbor's got one, he's a 90 pound smile.

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    Miss Chiff got rotated

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    Worked a lot in the wood shop and had a hot meal

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's a good email provider?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Have you ever made up a movie after only seeing the trailer?

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    My air purrifier

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's your personal little conspiracy theory?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

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    Double check my Linux gaming build Update w/ Build pics

    pcpartpicker.com /list/Bh3T6D