this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
153 points (97.5% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26560 readers
1498 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

A 1TB micro SD card

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Bunch of cute contrarians in here today.

I got a 4k TV from Paycor stadium for $10 per k.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Otamatone.

It's a synthesizer shaped like a note with a mouth and eyes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can buy a drone for, like, $5. So a swarm of drones for $100 seems pretty futuristic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

where can I buy a drone for 5$?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as you don't ask any questions... I got you. Meet me beside the dumpster at wendys. I prefer to be paid directly in drugs but cash app is fine to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I know! I told the Team lead id be in at 2. That's when I was scheduled and that's when I'm coming in. It's not my fault Becky got septic gonorrhea again. I'm going to sell my drones, and then I'll be there at my SCHEDULED time. Don't give me any of that "team player" bullshit either. All that "team playin" you managers have been doing is why everyone keeps getting septic gonorrhoea. So maybe focus more on your z-pack and get off of my back. How bout that.

If you need a drone tho I got you 10 a piece. Price break at 20. Brand new. Predator anti-personal. Can't resell them to Ukraine tho. I'm not pro Russia I just got beef with Zelensky. Owe him some money, don't want him to know I'm out here hustlin. Hit me up.

Edit: if you do want a drone maybe rub some of those z-pack anti bios on the bills tho. Don't need any of the Becky shit. I just got back with my baby momma you know and all she asked is "no more girls, no more drones, no more polyhedron with a surface areas greater than 30^2 centimeters on the larger faces " so we got keep this real down low, you feel me. You know how hard it was to get my kid back bro, so I got to keep this super light, no joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A COVID vaccine (offer not good inside the US)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Poop knife, it's the future I tell ya!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Get one in damascus for really deluxe poop cutting experience!

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still this thing, 20 years on:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kinda true, how this thing even worked, nobody knows

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The tape head is basically a small and really sensitive electromagnet. Magnetized tape creates small disturbances in the magnetic signal. Amplify those disturbances and you get sound. Similar to an antenna, but only works in close proximity.

This also works in reverse. Feed an audio signal through the electromagnet, and the electromagnet will create the disturbances in whatever is next to it. You can do this to record to a tape, or you can do this to pass sound to another tape head, which is how these aux cassettes work.

You can build one yourself really easily. Just take the tape head from a broken player and solder to an aux cable. Take a cassette, remove the tape, and put the tape head in the middle portion so it comes into contact with the player tape head.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course it's Technology Connections. Who else would make a video about a (now) useless piece of 80's tech with enough content to satisfy any level of curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I think of it as extremely 00s. It’s the “I only have an mp3 player/phone and my computer doesn’t take aux” device

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

A full working computer, more powerful than what we used to go to the moon, and using less power than a light bulb.

It can take many forms, like smartphones, SBCs or older PCs/laptops.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

You can buy an ESP board that meets all those qualifications from AliExpress for less than $3CAD shipped.

Setting one of those up was the first time in a while I’ve been so impressed with just how cheap and accessible tech has gotten. It’s a web server with WiFi and Bluetooth shipped to my door all for the price of a chocolate bar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

or mini pcs

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

lighters. fire on demand! for all of preindustrial human history these things would be worth more than gold

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Raspberry Pis and other microcomputers can be had for pretty cheap, and they can be put to a surprising variety of tasks. You need to be a bit of a jack of all trades to fully embrace that DIY element, but I'd bet that showing off a project that you mostly built yourself would be seen as futuristic by most people.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the deauther watch is pretty cool if we're thinking cyberpunk-esque

https://dstike.com/products/dstike-deauther-watch-v3s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what that's for but it looks cool as hell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Deauther is generally used for kicking clients off WiFi networks.
You can setup a mirror network, kick clients off the real one, they'll try to reconnect to yours, by which you can steal the WiFi credentials, or even listen in on the traffic.
Or just for testing, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Amazon and Walmart have microwaves under $100

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (5 children)

If you shop around you can find a Brother (B&W) laser printer for about $100.

Imagine this weird future: Printers that always just work no matter what type of computer you have or how long they've sat since you last used them. And the "ink" cartridges last forever. And you can buy 3rd party refills or even refill them yourself. Plus it's completely reliant on microplastics to do its job, what's more futuristic than that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I've got one of those and I'm pretty sure I've been using the same toner cartridge for like a dozen years.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is a cooking method from the 70s really... futuristic?

Not saying it isn't worth it, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It’s rare (intended) for me to find someone who knows what sous vide is. So I suspect for the majority it would seem futuristic.

load more comments
view more: next ›