Post 9ntaElPV1smIC1FSGO by SporkyDorky@hackers.town
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(DIR) Post #9npkpOgJFSaLFd0WuW by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2019-10-12T01:20:25Z
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If you feel down because your software has bugs that you haven’t gotten around to fix in forever or that you launched with a design that hasn’t been polished enough always remember that Acer shipped this
(DIR) Post #9npkxO4XOh5Ng79Mtk by Jo@social.diskseven.com
2019-10-12T01:21:51Z
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@thomasfuchs Ah yes, the Acer Robin Reliant to balance out their Ferrari range.
(DIR) Post #9nplCoGIJ6WpFQ0Fwu by codesections@fosstodon.org
2019-10-12T01:24:37Z
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@thomasfuchs > If you feel down because your software has bugs that you haven’t gotten around to fix in forever or that you launched with a design that hasn’t been polished enough always remember that Acer shipped thisI spent about 15 seconds looking for what was wrong on the screen before realizing I was missing something a bit more obvious!
(DIR) Post #9npllvw3liTLBNHqnA by feld@bikeshed.party
2019-10-12T01:30:59.896113Z
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@thomasfuchs no way, is this real?
(DIR) Post #9nplpRR56jDxkQTBlw by 48kRAM@oldbytes.space
2019-10-12T01:31:34Z
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@thomasfuchs Does the keyboard have a setting to ignore accidental input while mousing? 🤣🤣
(DIR) Post #9npluVP9mKG3VNz5Mm by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2019-10-12T01:32:32Z
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@feld yes, Acer aspire R7
(DIR) Post #9npluWaXNUxJAyJgkC by thegibson@hackers.town
2019-10-12T01:32:32Z
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@thomasfuchs I looked at that when it was new... I mean... wtf?
(DIR) Post #9npmTRW8DwpvaFuExE by carcinopithecus@x0r.be
2019-10-12T01:38:50Z
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@thomasfuchs i always assumed that was intentionali drove myself to madness LOOKING for a laptop that had that design but also with some other specs i needed
(DIR) Post #9npmxV0Lp2yH5TNBCq by tsturm@mastodon.cloud
2019-10-12T01:44:15Z
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@thomasfuchs Wait. No. This is not how we use notebooks.
(DIR) Post #9npnlsYiWR5ocQTDqy by petra@d100.club
2019-10-12T01:53:21Z
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@thomasfuchs this took me a while but I gasped
(DIR) Post #9npq7Wr26FDBaAUM52 by sjw@neckbeard.xyz
2019-10-12T02:19:41.874352Z
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@thomasfuchs That seems like it'd be a nightmare to use
(DIR) Post #9npwYSZshw0BrWguHo by e@ichii.moe
2019-10-12T03:31:48Z
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@thomasfuchs Hell no, fuck this shit, I'm out!
(DIR) Post #9nq3fZC5CsGM5WtZgW by hipocrates@scicomm.xyz
2019-10-12T04:51:25Z
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@thomasfuchs ugh ... messy as my hair in wet day, lets stick to good old think pads instead
(DIR) Post #9nqwACSDCKXm40UmkC by avi@computerfairi.es
2019-10-12T15:02:06Z
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@thomasfuchs I thought this was going to be about Windows until I got to the last part
(DIR) Post #9nqwWj3Mfvk1XUcAT2 by lyliawisteria@octodon.social
2019-10-12T15:06:11Z
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@thomasfuchs remember when vapourware? good times.
(DIR) Post #9nqx1I29BRk8iTcSA4 by tesseract@witches.live
2019-10-12T15:11:42Z
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@thomasfuchs good for people with very long fingers
(DIR) Post #9nr0SdS1xghQp4SONE by devurandom@cybre.space
2019-10-12T15:50:15Z
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@thomasfuchs this reminds me of the laptops in "the sims 3"... if i recall properly, they had the same layout because the game devs didn't want to do separate animations or smth...
(DIR) Post #9nr3oF7BQKLBZvhUxc by newt@niu.moe
2019-10-12T16:27:46Z
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@thomasfuchs now imagine gaming on this thing
(DIR) Post #9nr49RBXk2aH5xqXBY by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2019-10-12T16:31:38Z
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@newt
(DIR) Post #9nr4uWy23sn0ddyyWW by zem@conesphere.social
2019-10-12T16:40:08Z
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@thomasfuchswhat the f... of a abomination is that? what is ist supposed functionality?
(DIR) Post #9nr6CIZwOeLTBCkZeK by ND3JR@social.coop
2019-10-12T16:54:32Z
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@thomasfuchs Considering how many times I've cursed laptops with touchpads below the keyboard because it's too easy for me to brush my palm on the touchpad when I'm typing (including my current laptop), I'd actually try this.I still prefer pointing sticks (known by the IBM trademark "TrackPoint") over touchpads, though.Then the problem goes away completely! As someone else said, most laptop touchpads are shit.
(DIR) Post #9nrOZhtgEBy9XSIKci by theoutrider@mastodon.social
2019-10-12T20:20:30Z
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@thomasfuchs wh
(DIR) Post #9nrPqutpEr7Ek38IAS by ron@glammr.us
2019-10-12T20:34:43Z
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@thomasfuchs I didn't even see the touchpad, I was just busy being horrified by the, what is that thing? a start menu? But yeah, there's no way I'd use a touchpad like that.
(DIR) Post #9nrPtPLozX0vlTPpBY by noiob@awoo.space
2019-10-12T20:35:09Z
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@thomasfuchs I mean with how the screen moves it might make sense… for people who don't wanna use the trackpad at all
(DIR) Post #9ntaElPV1smIC1FSGO by SporkyDorky@hackers.town
2019-10-13T21:40:34Z
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@thomasfuchsYeah 8.1 Bing edition was terrible
(DIR) Post #9nwBa586zcQC3N40Ku by pelican3301@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T03:48:24Z
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@thomasfuchs In the early 1970s I was working for Stanley Tool Eagle Square Plant Shaftbury Vt running a milling machine that put the chalk line groove in Cast Iron levels. SOMEONE (Not ME milled a pallet full of them with the groove on the wrong side so when you used the groove over a chalk line the bubble glass was upside down. The pallet sat covered with a Hold tag on it for a month, then they decided to sell it as a "Special", for extra $$$ 🤣 #CapitalismAnyQuestions
(DIR) Post #9nwBxYV7xQMpo61QiO by pelican3301@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T03:52:41Z
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@thomasfuchs Years later I found myself working as a precision mechanical inspector at Seagate's machine shop in Watsonville California inspecting parts for disc drive motors. I don't know where to even start describing... But sometimes... quite often... I'm amazed their disc drives ever worked at all.
(DIR) Post #9nwCCghdkHifaX5fRg by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T03:55:25Z
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@pelican3301 I have 30+ year old Seagate drives that still work :)
(DIR) Post #9nwD6u1JQ3BJ6k65Ro by pelican3301@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T04:05:34Z
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@thomasfuchs It sure isn't an ST-225! Unless it's still in the box. I failed EVERY laminated motor armature that ever sat on my table for paint contamination. They even tried the ultimate no-no... secretly passing them off to a selected inspector whose inspection career was BEER inspection at a brewery. When layoff time came.guess who went. Him or me, who was hired b/c I had done the finish assembly on their Hardinge lathe chucks at a Northfield Pecision back east. Me ofc. I was ready anyway.
(DIR) Post #9nwDtDUyInTzQ20YzI by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T04:14:18Z
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@pelican3301 That was my first hard disk back in the 80s. :) surprisingly enough there’s still some out there working to this day.
(DIR) Post #9nwEa1oZcO7fdNah0a by pelican3301@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T04:22:03Z
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@thomasfuchs Post-225 I THINK! Worked there 1991 - 94 or so. The 225 had stiction prob and you had to slap the XT like an old TV set out of syc to get it to spin up else you got a 'drive not found' error. A later model in a Tandy IBM compatible was built into the keyboard and vibrated so badly it would walk the keyboard off your desk. Some drives were shipped incomplete with electronic components missing. OEMs screaming for delivery... double letter blueprints. Tossed MilSpec 415D out the window
(DIR) Post #9nwFf7yKFjis8I9DlI by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T04:34:11Z
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@pelican3301 percussive maintenance has a long and proud tradition with computers…
(DIR) Post #9nwGXjvvKVhfVN4772 by pelican3301@mastodon.social
2019-10-15T04:44:03Z
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@thomasfuchs "Percussive Maintenance" I'll remember that! The 225 had enough torque when new, but as the bearings and shafts wore in... Did I mention there were "Engineers" there whose whole career was that specific Bearings and shafts etc Only the old-timers knew how the drives worked They'd get called in in a pinch. Strokes, freakouts, ensued. But they finally made the $$$ they were worth. Like the Y2K bugcprogrammers who worked for peanuts at a time no one thought they'd need four date fields