I remember when I bought my iPhone 3GS back in the day.
The only option was to buy it carrier locked on a one or two year plan in my country. Of course it was exclusive to a carrier that wasn’t my choice of carrier.
I signed up, put it in a drawer and waited for the imminent jailbreak and unlocked modem firmware. It dropped two weeks later. After that one year of payments they unlocked it through official means.
Pants and shoes I try and buy in-store.
I’ve got my go-to brands for shirts and underwear that I know fit well, so I usually just buy a shitload when my old ones are worn out.
Outerwear is 50/50%.
Most online retailers will let you try and return goods. In the EU you can return anything bought online within 2 weeks, no questions asked (by law).
A lot of fast fashion stores might just burn returns, others might sell them at an outlet. And it cuts into they already thin margins. I try to avoid returns.
Not quite Schrödinger’s cat, but in programming we have Heisenbugs named after Schrödinger’s peer.
It’s when you have a bug/crash that is not reproducible when debugging it. Might be that you’re reading some memory that you’re not supposed to, and the debugger just sets it up differently. Maybe you have a race condition that just never happens with the debugger attached.
Is it really practical in 2024? I used pine as my sole e-mail client for many years.
In the last 15 years it feels like every mail expects the client to be able to render html, with no real fallback for text-only. Even when my client only blocks remote images some mail can be quite hard to decipher.
Company handbook even requires me to have a html signature with a picture of the company logo… before that I’ve militantly only sent text-only e-mail.
Mine does.
You can digitally “lend” a movie for a week and stream it once during that time. It’s free, but more cumbersome than the high seas.
Knew several as I was wrapping up uni. Had lots of fun partying and doing local trips with them.
I married one and moved to her home country for a few years. Now we live together in a third country.
I haven’t been following the lay of the land for the last 20 years, but it was the same problem then. Some things don’t change.
3d studio max was the big player. .3ds was proprietary, binary and undocumented. They had an ASCII export, but it was bugged. The guys at moppi had an improved ASCII export plugin that solved those issues.
Collada was just around the corner, but seemed quite over-engineered.
All I see is refitting sailboats and retro video game history.
Just about to go to bed with 2h51min screen time.
Baby won’t nap unless she’s in the stroller, so a lot of that is Pokémon Go while trying to get baby to go down for a nap.
Lead is used as a stabilizer in brass. So, commercial you’d never hit food safety standards with a brass nozzle.
Personally, I’m not so worried. I’ve made some 3d-printed cookie cutters. It’s heaps safer than the stainless steel cookie cutters we had as a kid that my old man had repaired with 60/40 soldering tin.
The climate I live in hasn’t ever caused any issues with filament, so YMMV.
I still keep them all in a big sealed plastic box with all the baggies of desiccant I’ve collected over the years. I give the baggies a yearly refresher in the microwave.
I haven’t used one as a tty, but my father had a typewriter like that.
He’d feed in forms for invoicing and software would have the typewriter fill in values in the right fields of that form.
I’ve had vt220/320/520 terminals back in the day. Been itching to source one now that I have a forever home to store crap like that, but they’re becoming quite rare and expensive.
Might’ve been a while since you tried. There’s quite a few options now. zstd is real nice and fast.
Envycontrol is simple and works well.
I much enjoyed it back in the day. Nokia even had their own app store for it and gave a nice financial incentive for the first hundred or thousand apps.
I feel Jolla & SailfishOS is the spiritual successor.
I’d try Bodom, population 0, if other than cities are allowed.
Or possibly Santa’s village, population 2 (if you exclude the elves)
I use a PowerBook G4 running MorphOS.
My parents never bought me an Amiga when I was little, and I’ve been making up for it ever since.
It was a shiny EGA card.
On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.
My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.
If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
Sure, it performed “fine”.
But it was sluggish compared to the VGA ttys we were used to.
Now, if we can have something as snappy and at the same time as pretty as Eterm… 👌