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accidentally hit something on the treadmill at my gym and it opened a web browser??

So basically anything with a screen these days is a computer. Your TV? Computer. Phone? Computer. Gas pump? Computer. And a lot of those computers are running a fork of Windows, because Microsoft is very good at building for corporate use. But it's a fork with most of the same features, because MS has no reason to rebuild their entire OS just for your SmartFridge. Instead, it just boots up a barebones Windows fork, and then auto-launches whatever program McDonalds uses for their drive-through menu or whatever. Which means with the right inputs, you can close that program. And open whatever MS has installed by default, like Solitaire, Word, or Edge.

i do not have and will never have an iphone but i've been watching hugh jeffrey's videos where he keeps exposing apple's cartoonishly evil anti-repair practices and whatever you think they are doing to keep people purchasing new devices, it is astonishingly worse.

wait the more i look into it the cooler it is. he wrote the blender port himself and does these things as praxis against e-waste and consumerism. slay

So I made a version of the beacon I could give away or sell if someone wanted one. I don't know if anyone would, but uhh, yeah. This is the almost finished version of it, working on getting rid of that top dark line because it bothers me, so still a little refining to do and I'm out of the pink filament. It now runs on USB-C. Ignore that little hot spot, that's because I used the original adhesive on these LED's to test and they slipped off -.-

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

This makes slightly more sense if you know there's a specific teapot model that's been used as a stock example object for the past half century.

hacker: the ai girl is trying to break into my systems! jokes on her, she’s about to learn that programming can’t match experience and skill!