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adamomadaon For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

And Burger King in Italy IS gourmet. You have to compete with your competitors, in North America it’s a corporate franchise fast food wasteland and the bar is set exceptionally low.

adamomadaon Windows NT for Power Macintosh

Hmm I remember switches always had to begin with “/“ in DOS

adamomadaon Windows NT for Power Macintosh

Hey you could have got the PowerBook G3 Lombard mentioned in the OP instead for $5k. pretty lucky you can get a magic headset instead eh

adamomadaon The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

If you look closely, kcal is always written Calorie not calorie. It’s interesting that even in otherwise metric based countries, the joule is completely foreign. It must be what most Americans experience when they see Celsius

RAM is always GiB - it’s how it works. I’d love to see an example of it being mangled though

adamomadaon The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

Even in North America, old school cash registers printed their receipts with the decimal as the dot in that purple ditto ribbon colour. I’m also remembering ticker tape calculators were the same as well.

adamomadaon The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

Seth MacFarlane nailed it https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ji5q3ICKPbY&t=345

adamomadaon Walmart Selling MacBook Air with M1 Chip for $649 Starting Today

I think the consensus is if you’re ok with Fedora’s arm64 package selection, don’t need external monitor or TB, shut down your computer every time instead of closing the lid to sleep, you’ll get really good performance on Asahi Linux but not as good battery life as on macOS

adamomadaon Walmart Selling MacBook Air with M1 Chip for $649 Starting Today

Isn’t it now though? Soldered in to the SOC and therefore super fast

adamomadaon Apple Users Are Keeping Their Devices for Longer as Upgrades Slow

You can turn it off

https://ibb.co/sjtG65M

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

Hey I hope you see this: you can use your fire cube offline, the thing that doesn’t work is the home screen. But if you hold down the home button, you can get to the app quick launcher (first or second selection, depending if you use profiles) and launch the app directly

I get around this with my custom setup but the hold down home / quick launch is available on all fire tv devices since the beginning.

adamomadaon Canada became a car theft capital of the world

Also it should be noted that Halton region police are the highest paid police force in the entire nation. If they don’t have any incentive to do it...

adamomadaon Canada became a car theft capital of the world

And a tow truck towing a car out of an otherwise empty parking lot at night would not raise any suspicion whatsoever.

adamomadaon Canada became a car theft capital of the world

It is pure genius though, people are conditioned to ignore a tow truck taking a car away, assuming it’s somehow legit in all cases. It is ridiculously easy to steal a car with a tow truck.

adamomadaon Canada became a car theft capital of the world

Seconding this, it really isn’t hyperbole.

Smile, tomorrow will be worse

adamomadaon Some Florida cities are living off red light cameras

If you have to ask, big boy, you can’t afford it

adamomadaon Some Florida cities are living off red light cameras

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/doral-red-light-cameras-g...

Linked to in TFAYDR

adamomadaon No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead

https://www.funtoo.org/Support_Matrix#Kernels

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

I was trying to say that we’re in an extreme minority; they didn’t even think more than ten people would disable it. What’s the reason that makes sense? They forgot?

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

> I'm gonna need to see some data on that.

It’s enabled by default on all smart TVs. Q.E.D.

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

Are there TVs with it out now, or is it still Coming Soon?

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

Depends on your setup, but you won’t have any audio without a speaker system

The best way is to get a good smart tv (rtings.com) and do not connect it to your network. Use an Apple TV/Android TV/Fire TV device, it’s easier to avoid/disable crap.

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

For sports it’s the one and only time I enjoy 60 Hz content, to the point that 25/30 feeds look like garbage. I mainly watch footer and hockey, slower sports it might not look so bad.

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

They made the feature, they’re gonna enable it or nobody would use it and it would have been a waste of time making

You’re really gonna hate the fact that 99% of people think this is what stuff on their digital television is supposed to look like.

(Which is exactly why Roku did it)

adamomadaon Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

I agree with you and this is why I choose android or android-based streaming devices, in my case Fire TV. There’s enough hackability built into android that you can use e.g. tasker or other dedicated macro apps to do just enough customization that it ends up working the way you want. I know I’m the minority and most people don’t care or take it for granted how the thing works, but I don’t.

In my case I basically would love if Fire TV never did another update, stayed on old Android 9, and just let me use the three or four streaming apps with my custom launcher – I don’t want anything else, thanks

adamomadaon Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads

Oh c’mon there are people who have thought about it for more than the ten seconds you have and it’s not feasible and not effortless - you want to give every cam an internet gateway??

adamomadaon Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads

Yah I made a mental note when I saw that setup being used in the Tiger King Netflix show (where they show quite a bit of behind the scenes of making it). I think it stuck in my head just because it was FCP7 but it’s like a high quality power tool - it doesn’t just stop working (unless you break it hehe)

adamomadaon What the internet looked like in 1994

It really was though. A lot of people with computers got their first modem to dial into BBS systems or the compuserve type systems. Small ISPs got started up and you usually found out about them through BBSes as well because they didn’t really have ad budgets and it was so niche.

A friend of mine and I split the cost of a 1200 baud modem for the c64 and took turns with it.

This was magic back then: 80 column terminal on a c64: http://kobolt.website/infocenter/images/novaterm-top.jpg

adamomadaon Let's stop counting centuries

You just made me realize that the common saying “the eleventh hour” isn’t what anyone thinks it is

adamomadaon Ask HN: What is your favorite rolling Linux distro?

Two you should look at imho

- Void Linux

- Chimera Linux

I can’t decide on a favourite, but they’re both very interesting projects.