I believe the quote was closer to "he had no reason to believe she wasn't entirely willing."

And yes, that quote got stretched and twisted like taffy, but the whole thing is still really creepy to me.

He did recant his opinions on sex with minors. I still find the whole thing exceedingly distasteful, and to be honest, him to be a rather distasteful individual, but I do believe in keeping the facts straight in that matter and not blowing things out of proportion.

I still find the fact that he was trying to defend Minsky (in his 70s) having sex with a teenager to be disgusting, and sadly on-brand for him.

Yeah, I have serious doubts about his character. :/

Let's also not forget the history he had in the past with trying to manipulate women into dating him, and he had a freaking bed in his office.

Thankful for the Free Software movement, but rms is creepy.

That game is a trip. Never seen the actual gameplay (or high quality footage of the intro) before.

youtube.com/watch?v=XKkd_MZ1rE…

I remember doing everything on a 9" screen at home, and thinking that 13" was big ;)

I also remember going from a Blackberry with 320x240 screen to an iPod Touch 3rd gen (320x480), and thinking it was SOOOO high-res. :D

And of course, the 640x960 of my iPhone 4 was just mythically high-res. Unbelievable stuff.

I also remember the very first time I saw something at 720p (a freebie download of a Heroes episode on iTunes), and realizing that I could see the actor's PORES. Freaky. XD

I think I've told you before, but the classic (almost all-in-one) Macs were practically considered portables. Apple even sold a very nice padded canvas backpack for them with room for the keyboard and mouse.

Apple's first true portable (first computer that actually ran off a battery (for a few minutes, anyway XD )) was nearly as heavy: 16 lbs vs 16.5 lbs (probably doesn't include the weight of the keyboard, mouse, and power cable, but that's not that much).

P.S. Huh, Wikipedia states that the original Macintosh portable had a ten hour battery life! It was a 30 Wh battery, so perhaps the usage of SRAM and no backlight meant that it really did last that long. I had no idea!

portable computer by Apple

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Somewhat slantways, that reminds me of the time years ago when a friend on fb asked for a recommendation for a gimbal for his phone/camera.

I posted a photo of a static fire test of the Space Shuttle Main Engine and commented, "She's only got 15 degrees of freedom, but she can handle a hell of a lot of force!" XD

@R.L. Dane 🍵 I had a bank that had an eight character maximum. What's worse was that they didn't tell you about the limit; they'd just silently truncate.

Also, it was case insensitive.

I don't mean to be snarky, but are you sure your eyes are ok? ;)

I think I'm probably more exacting because my eyes are a little weak, and a little bit of blurriness becomes very annoying to me.

But of course, it depends a lot on the size of screen I'm viewing on, my distance to it, and how much I'm actually paying attention to it. Of course, if I'm on mobile data, that changes things too.

Oh man, I remember the very first time a friend of mine sitting next to me at the computer lab sneakily reached around behind my 13" monitor and hit the degauss button. I was totally hyperfocusing (probably reading a Usenet flamewar at the time XD ), and nearly jumped out of my skin when the picture contorted and turned every which color.

I miss that weird effect. I had completely forgotten that was a thing!!!

Fine by me.

I bought one of those but it stopped powering on after a boot or two… and it didn't include the charging cord it was supposed to and I couldn't get it to charge with any of mine. So I returned it.

Would've been a really cool device but in retrospect I don't have a ton of practical use for a handheld.

You might try getting a charge-only/no-data cable. It'll force whatever you plug it into to deliver the base USB charging rate (1 amp? Half an amp? I forget)

I use it with my phone to force it to charge in the slowest mode, so that it charges the lipo more gently, hopefully preserving its useful lifespan.

The silly thing is that PAM and other security systems allow for treating shorter but more complex passwords the same as longer but simpler passwords.

As I recall (I set this up like 23 years ago, so I'm going from memory), you set a minimum length, but then you can set certain characters to count more towards that length. So a password like h&eF2#$bP4! might be long enough, but a password like borofjekbfehvosijelsp might not.

i’ve seen one that doesn’t allow space lol.

the one i’m working for had a similar bug because they wanted ensuring “strong” password and ended up restricting it unnecessarily

> stuff being a bit less blurry

that’s the difference :)

I still don't have any devices > 1080p, except for just my TV.

I recorded my very first 4k video in 2017, but it was a series of photos taken on my dSLR and assembled in software. The first time I watched that video in actual 4k was when I got my first 4k tv in 2022. XD

My first phone capable of recording in 4k was maybe in 2018, but properly in 2021. I still haven't viewed most of those videos on a 4k-capable screen.

The thing is, even 1080p gets stuttery when I do some transitions. 4k sounds like a lot of extra load for my computer, even my fairly fast 2022 work laptop.

Depends on screen size, for me ;P

720p on phone: sure

On Steam Deck: yeah, probably

On 48" monitor: hahahahaha nope.

PPI and viewing distance matters more than resolution IMO

It's all about pixels per arcsecond to the eye.

And even then, the amount of mental focus you're giving to the image has a huge impact.

And even then, the bitrate is more important than the actual resolution.

Viewing at 1080p video saved at the same bitrate as a 4k video? Telling those two apart would be a challenge, unless they were very still/calm videos.

I was too busy playing Dizzy on an Amstrad cpc464 to have time for cool LAN parties.

I'm trying to get a bunch of friends together to play Space Nerds in Space as a LAN party, but they've all got "jobs" and "children" and "no time". Boring.

I still think 1024x768 is THE_TRUE_RESOLUTION.

Pity the only monitors you can buy at that resolution are <10".

I'm not sure if my CRT had one or not, now that you mention it. I think it just degaussed when you turned it on.

The 90s Apple 13" Trinitrons had a rectangular button in the back that would trigger it.

Gorgeous bit of kit!

There were CLONE SPARCStations?!? I had no idea!

What are the circular things in front?

USB Power Delivery is a funny thing.

Your device might support a ton of power delivery rates, and your charger might support a ton, but if they don't support any of the same ones, it won't charge. It's kind of like cell phone bands, you can buy a phone that supports a ton of bands, but just not any of the ones in your country, and it's basically a brick. ;)

The funny thing is that the data-cable is the one that works, the phone fast-charge cable, and the switch one doesn't work for the miyoo, but the datacable, which is a nobrand cheapo one works great.

I think there is some kind of hardware in the others to deliver more electricity faster or something.

The first generation video codecs (before RealMedia) were actually comprehensible. You can read the spec on wikipedia, they were stupid simple.

Of course, they were super lossy, and didn't compress very well, but it was an interesting time.

160x120 was the golden standard until the mid-90s, when computers got fast enough to handle 320x240.

320x240 was the standard for internet video from about 2002 until maybe 2008? Felt like longer at the time, kind of like the reign of Windows XP felt like two decades, rather than six years. XD