LovableSidekick

joined 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Zenith Space Command remote.

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

The button pressed a spring-loaded thing that struck a piece of metal, almost like a wind chime, emitting an ultrasonic note. I discovered by accident that I could make my parents' stereo change channels by clinking coins together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Those remotes used little spring-loaded mechanical chimes that emitted ultrasonic notes. As a kid I discovered my parents' big Magnavox console stereo would change channels if I clinked a handful of coins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

I think a lot of old school products worked better than modern equivalents. Take toasters - when I was a kid our toaster consistently made toast with the same degree of doneness. I've had modern ones that said "microprocessor controlled" on them that couldn't make consecutive pieces the same. Also flashlights. Simple metal flashlights just worked. My new sophisticated one cycles through multiple levels of brightness and then strobing (so I can what, have my own rave?) but sudden motions make it spontaneously turn off. I mean how hard is an ON/OFF switch?

And what's the deal with airline food? I'm thinkin' hey!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Same here. And speaking of bubbles I haven't seen anything about NFTs in quite a while. I don't think that bubble burst tho, it just sort of shriveled up and blew away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

LOL the first trick is my go to. I regularly read Washington Post articles in notepad.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago

Yep, that's what I heard. They also do overnight backups so it needs downtime, kind of like people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The AI bubble might be the 2020s' dotcom bubble.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So they're more worried about misinformation about the results than misinformation that influences the actual voting. Well alrighty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Unrelated, I can't help noticing how much Altman reminds me of Luke Dunphy from Modern Family.

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

Doesn't seem that hard to get. From observation it appears that grown men can still long for father figures.

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

we hrd u lik fredum so we freed u frm votg

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