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I don't know anything about shorting stocks. NASDAQ goes up forever man. To the moon! LMAO
Will look into the pi-hole idea, walkman. Thanks for posting it. I vaguely remember reading about years back but never had the time to deal with it. Now I have a few Raspberry Pi computers and only one is really doing much right now. That's the old 2B I use for uploading weather station data.
If you are into various "retro" computer systems and video games, there's a Hardware emulation platform using FPGA created by Terasic called "DE10-Nano Kit". An open source hardware add-on called MiSTer gives the FPGA hardware additional functionality, including an integrated USB hub, SDRAM, VGA video, analog out via headphone jack, and many other functions. DE10-Nano Specs: 110K LEs; 5570 Kbits Embedded Memory; 6 PLLs; 2 Hard Memory Controllers 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Process; 1GB DDR3 SDRAM; 32-bit Data Bus 1 Gibabit Ethernet PHY; USB Micro-AB Connect; Mirco SD Card Socket The board can run linux and comes with an SD card with linux pre- installed. I setup a guide to set this up here: https://distantdark.com/2021/10/16/the-mister-fpga/
Meet an unsung hero of the emulation scene. I have fond memories of using his MSX emulator on the ancient 386 with Windows 3.11 (at work circa 1997). It (the pc) was slow as hell but Marat s emulator ran full speed. Marat Fayzullin https://fms.komkon.org/ He created the second Nintendo emulator in history and end up doing work on many other systems.
Back then, I think most professionals had much newer computers at home than they did at work. I think in 97 I had a 233 mhz pentium and upgraded to a pentium ii which wasn t that much faster.
Absolutely, walkman. I've always had a better computer at home than at work. They don't seem to mind if you sit there and wait for things to happen at work. Makes no sense to me. Where I work, you have to wait 5-6 years to get a new computer, but it won't be new. It'll be one they pulled after someone left. I didn't like the first laptop they gave me so I had to have a vice president approve (he said he had no problem). It's still not very fast but much better than the dual core laptop they gave me to replace my old dual core laptop. Go figure.
#11 Same here! I've had my HP laptop for six years already and it wasn't new when I got it. When I'm doing heavy work, the fan on the side is super loud and blasts hot air. I figure eventually it will just cook itself. LOL I looked up my work laptop on ebay, which averages about $200. Fancy! There's never enough money in the budget for new laptops but they can spend money letting me spin my wheels waiting for processes and starting over when applications crash. *slaps forehead*
This the same model laptop. Same specs and everything. https://www.ebay.com/itm/234257499118? hash=item368ad5c3ee:g:s~4AAOSwbiRheGNz Just think, a big corporation has people working "from home" 8-10 hours a day on ancient $200 machines. Seems incredible to me.
I'm a strong supporter of RDP into VMs. If you have connectivity and decent graphics then you can remote into your workstation and never have to worry about your hardware failures or lost backups. The employer can then just add RAM, CPU, or storage on the fly. Most companies aren't willing to flip the bill for that though. They dont seem to care until your old POS laptop they supplied either crashes or gets nailed by ransomware. And you know what the best recovery from ransomware is? Fresh backups. Wipe and restore - simple.
Run an ancient 386SX (slightly upgraded 286) as a 486? Madness! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqZiMhe5UA Or just throw the whole thing in a dumpster and buy a $35 Raspberry Pi, overclock it and buy a pizza. Kidding aside, I can imagine how nuts it would have been for an office to save tens of thousands of dollars circa 1995 by upgrading all of their 386 computers with this little processor add-on and squeeze out maybe 2-3 more years. What would you call this little gadget? A processor hat? Before Adrian installed it, I guessed wrong that it would have been installed in the math co-processor socket.
Adrian often shows modern hardware to use with old computers. It's interesting to some people to see an old PC get speeded up even if you have no use for it. To each his own.
RE: 16 Ha ha ha yes. To many, I must have very strange youtube viewing habits. I also love videos from people living in their cars, vans, tiny homes. There's something about "the right to repair", DIY, "reuse, recycle"... it's a middle finger to being a debt slave and being dependent on others. If I wasn't in my 50's and were more like 20, I'd be living in an Econoline van, working contract jobs around the country. We don't know what 2022 will bring us, so who knows? LOL *cringe* With Adrian's videos, his ingenuity, persistence, and resourcefulness are interesting to watch. Plus he goes down tech rabbit holes so we don't have to. I also think it's great that one day, curious people will look to his videos for a historical lesson.
Create your own music streaming device with Volumio: https://distantdark.com/2021/11/25/volumio-the-diy-media-streamer/
Modern PC gaming with a Debian-based Linux system: https://distantdark.com/2021/11/23/gaming-on-your-debian-based-linux- computer/
re #19 If I could get Steam to run on Crouton (a chromebook) it'd be pretty awesome. However, 'modern PC' implies a decent graphics card. To me, much of this comes down to how much Wattage I'll need. I'm in a van down by the river scenario.
#20 Steam is interesting. If you have a computer with a great graphics card and a good home network, you can stream the Steam games onto a laptop, TV, raspberry Pi etc. Apparently, there is some form of Steam support for Chromebooks: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-steam-on-chromebook- 1144719/ Your mileage may vary. To be honest, my gaming is more Mario, Kirby, MsPacman and Galaga than Halo. So my little $200 Nintendo Switch Lite is the best gaming experience possible. I have nothing against the more modern games but I just don't enjoy running around with a giant gun murdering people. I do enjoy modern racing games though. It's absurd that people spend thousands to play video games but then again, there are people that buy boats that cost $500,000+ in Metro Detroit.
For $300k, you can poop next to the sink while your friends watch https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/boa/d/grosse-ile-2016-sunsation-34-ccx/ 7414 238885.html
Yeah, you would think they could have, at the very least put curtains around that toilet.
Curtains will cost you extra. Do you want the Kid Rock curtains or the King Kwame ones?
I want curtains from the My Pillow grifter guy. For an extra $200 you can get Sidney Powell to sign it, "If I killed myself, it was Hillary."
I thought it was Winnie the Pooh but his name was Newt
https://nypost.com/2018/10/13/how-clinton-and-gingrich-started-the-great- american-divide/ 2024, if we ever get there will be interesting. If there ever was a case that Trump was a globalist agent, it could be made now with him going around with Bill O'Riley promoting the vaccines while the crowds boo. I don't think even 5% of his base are for vaccines and 0% are for mandates. 2024, if Trump runs will be like Romney vs Obama. Anyone the left runs will win. Trump needs to step aside and let someone like Desantis run. For FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!
doubleplusgood double-plus good double plus good ++good Antonyms: ungood, double-plus-ungood https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/the-terrifying-story-of-how- qanon-infiltrated-moms-groups/
re #28 I'm a NextDoor moderator (for several accounts - ask me how I did that.) What you see as a moderator reveals quickly who is pulling strings in your community; and by community we can be talking a few blocks or a Congressional district *wink wink* It has been a lesson in "what FB, IG, Dischord, Whatsapp, etc potential looks like" I had a mayor pro-tem interview the hell out of me before making me a mod for my own neighborhood. She uses an alias "don't tell anybody who I really am" There are fringe websites claiming she does kooky things like surveil her adversaries or naysayers - I can validate that. However this is a person with power to do things to people such as that white bicycle with candles I pass every day...a dead cop who got run off the road bicycling that was one of her worst critics. That's just a sample platter. Moms' groups is a real thing. We have Katie Porter in our District - just a little while longer since the gerrymandering by Congress recently. Katie got into our district who "WHO THE F#@& KNOWS" method because it's staunch conservative and she's a puppet for VP Harris and the Left. My living room TV died recently and as an EET it's a cakewalk to fix but I haven't and won't. There is no good which can come from the media nor the streaming channels. My kid asked me about Boba Fett and I told him DisneyPlus is the Devil and we dont pay for that because my pronouns will stay intact. Want to take an even deeper dive? Watch The Way Of The Dog and tell me what the takeaway message is....it's more blatant than the 'war' movie Thin Red Line which was another pedo freak movie. Hey, if you like HP Lovecraft and the Egyptian boy he brought with him to his Andy Warhol parties then I can't help you. Why did Epsteins guards get off the hook for letting him hang while they played online games?
1. They pyramids of Giza and the pyramids of Teotihuacan both align perfectly overhead to Orion's Belt. There are further monuments at Teotihuacan that also align with other stars beyond Orion. 2. A 15 year old boy found a lost Mayan city by overlaying star maps over ancient temples. "X" marks the spot. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36259047 3. How did ancient man calculate with exact precision, immense monuments that line up perfectly overhead to stars in the sky? 4. *Why* did ancient man line up immense monuments who's precise alignment appear to match stars only to those FLYING above? 5. How did two civilizations separated by time and thousands of miles create similar monuments that both aligned to the same stars without knowledge or communications with eachother?
resp:30 1., 2.: Cool! 3.-5.: You're not saying it aliens ... but it's aliens? Don't sell human ingenuity short.
I'm just asking questions. Yes, humans are intelligent. Archaeologists and historians are afraid to connect the dots are ask the obvious questions because doing so threatens the past work their current beliefs are based on. The almost exact similarities with archaeological structures spanning the globe (construction methods & building shapes), belief systems, religious themes (men from the sky, floods, creation myths, etc.), and culture can't be explained away by coincidence IMO. If we can rule out aliens and conclude smart humans, we should then ask why civilizations, written history and monuments didn't appear before 10,000 BCE. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago...
Civlizations are 5k years old but homo sapiens are 300k years old. From 300,000 to 300 BCE...what kinda freaky carnival circus was going on with homo sapiens that all of a sudden 5k years ago they started to commune and farm? Were they living on ice where nothing grew? Were their asses being chased too frequently to stop and smell the roses? Did they decide to walk upright? Were they domesticated by ET and observed how to behave as a society?
#33 That's what I'm saying. If we extended the "humans were always great builders of civilizations", we could then go down some roads. One road that you cited is flood/ice/uninhabitable earth. With that we can say that humans may have had a limited ability to convene and learn from each other to evolve their civilization. There's another intriguing road: great civilizations have come and gone but were lost. Spooky and cool. Did they escape earth with rocket ships and evolve elsewhere? Are *they* the aliens visiting earth? Or did they just die out and or were their cities now under water? So many questions. Were they more or less advanced than we are? Did they have intriguing customs, languages, myths, inventions, etc? What we do know is that we find ancient homo sapiens buried with simple tools and that there is cave art, which by the way experts claim the oldest is 35,400 years old. What were the ancient men portraying? FUCKING ALIENS. Space ships, aliens, weird shit and of course, animals and hand prints.
Most evidence of Mu, Atlantis, and Hyperborea was wiped out in the Deluge.
re #35 The Polish 1600s uprising?
resp:36 "Apre`s moi, le de'luge."
Ruine, si tu veux, quand nous sommes morts et partis
This is outstanding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpC85p0ZM0
re #39 Sunwheel? How about UFO? It has a hold in the middle so they could mimick the spinning. Charred...Burned Beyond.....Recognition Yea, if I see something burned then my first thought is going to be Frankenstein
#40 Those entities depicted were NOT Chinese. Ears, nose, eyes very different. Humans don't have giant wrap around eyes... The way they were depicted, the scale of the depictions...only to deliberately bury them and set them on fire...those people were deathly afraid of the "gods". 3,000 years ago. Just incredible. And yeah, that wheel. Out of context it could represent anything but given the context of those entities, it seems pretty obvious to me. It really could be a sun wheel but it could also be a mag wheel from a Olds 442. When we step back and look at artwork from the Sumerians, to the Greeks, Romans, Mayans, Persians and so on we see flying discs. The Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda wasn't the only one depicted with wings and a round disc juxtapositioned. The Mayans put their gods in space ships! Oh - did you notice some of the 3,000 year old art work from China had a very strong resemblance to the Mayan art?
Thor Heyerdahl would be proud of all this. And yes, I agree. Zorastrians temple has a big fire in its center. I know a few and they have a house they've turned into a temple. It's pretty interesting stuff. What's even more fascinating is that Iranians consider Mazda a national symbol and wear the necklace but if you get down to it most of them are Muslim...the majority of Zorastrians are Parsi (Not Farsi) and came to Iran many centuries ago from India. Old civilizations...
Here's a good one. Why is the Book of Enoch (great-grandfather of Noah) rejected by Jews and Christians? It's central to many biblical stories, yet non-cannon. I would think that fallen angels, giants, "the watchers" and UFO's would be good reading! (sarcasm) Many of these ideas are making Disney (under Marvel) hundreds of millions of dollars.
This Japanese Sega arcade game from 1985 called, "I'm Sorry" features 3 bad guys: A CIA "man in black", O.J. Simpson, and Michael Jackson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LoNPS2vDPE I'm not kidding. It's actually a fun and challenging game but the stage two villains are racist as f. I never got to the 3rd level. I wonder who the villains are.
re #44 I don't know what the point of that game was but I felt like I was skipping school and losing money just by watching/listening to it.
Ha ha ha ha yes indeed I remember the arcade strategically located next to the High School had a slice of pizza and a coke for $1. That's almost unimaginable now. And so many quarters in the Star Wars, Pac-Man, Tron, Crystal Castles, Mappy, Q*Bert... all the burnouts playing Stargate/Defender. I would die almost instantly with that game. I ended up owning that cabinet (someone *gave* it to me around 2000 if you can believe it). I'm pretty ace at that game now. (pretty sad really) LOL For some strange reason, my brain just jumped to those Russian clones of the British ZX Spectrum. I wonder how video games were played in Soviet territory. Maybe one day I'll visit the "Museum of Soviet Arcade Games"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Soviet_Arcade_Machines My brain just jumped again to bootleg VCR players in North Korea and episodes of "Friends" being smuggled in. See, Americans don't really eat their babies. They eat take-out Chinese food and drink expensive coffee.
re #46 If you were playing Sea Battle in Jordache jeans in USSR then you were the son/daughter of somebody at the top of The Party. That just didn't happen, comrade. I can't remember how many kopecs I put on the Kblo6epT (QBert) machine in between tending the field and studying for the chess championships.
If you ever wanted to load a Commodore Vic 20 cartridge image from a floppy disk on a real machine, I wrote a guide on how to do this: https://distantdark.com/2022/02/06/commodore-vic-20-2-rom-cartridge- files-launch-from-a-d64-image/ It's actually a really difficult problem because most of the cartridges are split images and the images are assigned to different memory blocks. These games should be preserved and so far, it's quite difficult to play them, even with emulators. With this method, you can create a disk image with the rom images and run them on either a real machine or an emulator. #vic20rabbithole #jupiterlanderrocks There were many more interesting Vic 20 games than even I was aware of, especially those created by Sierra. http://sierrachest.com/index.php?a=platforms&id=15
What is a floppy disk?
"What is a floppy disk?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp02cUD9mAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDuZ2vHkUQ
Nothing like a "dodgy SID to SID" setup. That guy...it's like someone plucked Al Jourgenson (from Ministry) from 1985 and placed him into 2007. He's committed to the role too which I fully respect. The intro music is total shoot-em-up video game territory. Nice.
re #52 Reminds me of some of the Dutch guys in the 90's who were churning out techno on their Amigas
When I think about how advanced the Amiga was when it came out (1985) - so much more advanced than the PC or Mac, it's almost astounding that it was left behind. It had higher resolution, color (!), incredible software & sound capabilities and expand-ability (like RAM). People like to glamorize the Mac's impact on history while ignoring the Amiga as if it never existed. It's really interesting and sad. It's like that with all Apple products. People like to say that Steve Jobs invented the smartphone. The obvious reality is that he was just a CEO and didn't invent anything. But beyond that, there were smartphones on the market years before the iPhone came out. What did a 2007 iPhone do that a pre-existing Blackberry or Palm Phone not do? This is all cult territory. The establishment and the left cult used to be separate entities. Now they are merged together. The left cult and the establishment loves to LOVE anything apple and apparently they can write and rewrite history.
I remember making phone calls over GPRS with a blackberry in 2003. You had to plug your earbuds into the blackberry because it didn't have a mic and speakers - they were intended to be the evolution after the smart pager - not the evolution after the Nokia cell phone. When all of NYC CDMA was jammed and out of service, you could do direct comms to other Blackberries over GPRS. iPhone? Mac? Most folks had to be above a certain income to attain Apple products.
Do you have squeaky compact cassettes? Is your tape stopping at certain intervals? Your tape might need lubrication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov9frNzqrhU A lubricated tape is a happy tape.
I dunk mine in 3in1 Wrench Oil then juggle it with a kitten for 24 hours
Klaus says, "During the fourth industrial revolution, kittens will be served on special occasions and you will be happy." New Order is the new subculture. A view without a room Unveils the truth so soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzYeDm1Vpxs
Buscemi and the lipstick....I dunno man.... Wernher claimed in 1975 that the Moon would have a baby born on it by Y2k and that 2 ships would be build in Earth's orbit using shuttles for a Mars expedition. There is a 16mile high volcano on Mars and a canyon the size of Miami to Seattle where ET could live.
There are several camps on moon conspiracy theories. One that I know of believes there's a mature space force that has been developing moon bases for many years. They likely believe there are many, many babies born there all the time. Others believe man never crossed the Van Allen radiation belt aka never landed on the moon. Some say there's a portal on earth where people travel from the earth to a moon base instantly. There are some that claim to be part of this program. It's ridiculous to me but anything's possible I suppose. When I hear "portholes" or "wormholes" or "vortexes" on earth, I cringe. Oh and there are others who think the Nazi's had a moonbase. As if.
Hermann Goering's butt was the moon base. It's possible man hasn't crossed the Van Allen radiation belt. It would make Malcovich's portrayal of Kubrick that much more zany.
#61 Yeah, that's the one that I could subscribe to "van allen belt" aka they circled around the earth, and then landed. I don't want to be a moon nutter but there are too many questions and contradictions. When I was a kid I wondered, "how did they have enough fuel in that small capsule to leave the moon and return to earth" and also, "how did they pack all of their equipment into that tiny capsule?". It's just "one of those things" that I try to just play along with because I don't want to admit even to myself that the whole thing doesn't pass the smell test. There are things that to this day seem absurd to me, like the moon buggy "lunar roving vehicle" being necessary or plausible. Aside from all of that, there are the infamous air-brushed moon-walk photos and other interesting tidbits (no stars in the photos) that require skepticism. I value skepticism even when things seem to be airtight.
resp:61 Are you referring to the movie "Color Me Kubrick"? Malkovich wasn't portraying Kubrick, but a con-man pretending to be Kubrick.
re #63 Yes, I was referring to Colour Me Kubrick. We could talk about the Danny Torrence sweater with APOLLO 11 in The Shining for starters............................A 11 work and no play...
I thought it was 'Color My Revolution', the Soros-inspired role-playing game by Milton Bradley.
I saw the moon buggy at the Henry Ford Museum in 1989 when it was on loan. Strange because it was supposed to be still on the moon! https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital- collections/artifact/481013/ In the photo you can see that the museum placed it next to Henry Ford's first car and you might be humbled to realize that they don't look that different from each other. One had bigger tires and a fake satellite dish... nice touch Kubrick! ;)
re #66 If you look at some of the Apollo 15 pics with the rover, you can see rolled up newspapers under the wheels in the dirt.
This is some very good information: https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbqdb8/15-years-ago-the-military-tried- to-record-whole-human-lives-it-ended-badly
"4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. Ezekiel 1 15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around 22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome. Ezekiel 1
The bible is loaded with UFO accounts. Ezekiel's description above was pretty remarkable but even more startling were the accounts of both Enoch and Elijah being abducted by UFOs. UFOs were described as flying scrolls: Zechariah 5:1 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll. Zechariah 5:2 He asked me, What do you see? I answered, I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide. Many more accounts of UFOs described as pillars of fire and pillars of clouds. Also described as moving stars... I find all of this incredible.
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