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It is only mid 2020s and people already asking such questions. Imagine late 2030s or even 2040s.
Imagine we were dead
What the fuck is VR? Is that like brain diving?
[I/O] instead?
In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera
Maybe it’s time to change the save icon into a USB drive.
Every time you save a file in Microsoft, your credit card is charged $.50
Nice try Satan, but my start up is building ads into car start ups. You can’t switch gears until the ad is done.
Propaganda here boys. Japanese aren’t having kids, there is no youth.
That’s a fictitious character.
Actual vending machines are never in this state.Higher probabilities are:
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Maybe it needs to be a 5.25" floppy
You think it’s bad that the save icons have floppy disks?
A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for “database” (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it’s running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system
I thought that represented money
Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
Maybe it’s a super disk LS-240. They were up 240 MB.
Could be a zipdisk! Those where up to what 750megs?
I had one of those beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Probably still have it somewhere among the dust.
I had my best porn on one of those as a youth (because it meant nothing visible on my computer unless I wanted it to be) and then the drive died one day. RIP hours of downloading, plus all my games and music on my more legit disks.
Does it click?
I replaced my jazz drive when burners became more popular and cheaper. I could buy 100 cdrs for the price of a zip disk. I only had a zip drive to begin with so I could work on my high school projects in computer graphics class from home (ah, going back and forth between Windows and Mac in 1999… it sucked)
I remember the smell of a new pack of discs.
Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.
Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.
Congrats, you win! 🥳
Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
When you use old tech like that, sometimes it becomes a security feature.
Me when I’m in a refusing modernization challenge and my opponent is Japan:
Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
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Remember the cinnamon challenge? It was just like a handful of weirdos doing it and in international news, they said it was average Americans because of our underfunded education system.
have brains
Shoot, that’s an understatement. The Japanese people I’ve read online and met in person tended to be a whole lot more educated than the average Joe. Their education system seems pretty solid.
Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it’s not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?
No doubt they’re somewhere, but I’ve never come across those people online or in person.
Theres something about this sentiment that slightly scares my very soul.
The other day I got a press release about disaster preparedness for grade school kids.
It made mention of teaching kids how to use a battery powered radio to get information. And it suddenly struck me that my 8 year old nephew likely has never even SEEN an FM radio, much less would know how to tune one to a specific station.
Shit like that makes me feel reaaaaaaallllly old…
You probably still have an FM radio in your car. You just use it so infrequently that your forget it is there.
Tell em it’s analog wi-fi
WiFi is of course radio. We just tune in and listen to it differently.
If you limited your bandwidth to 20 or 30 kHz, you could build a “radio” that you manually tune to a WiFi channel frequency and that produces audible noise. You could then build a 1980’s style modem to convert the audio back into a bitstream that you could run your network connection over.
It would be about many times slower than standard Wifi though modern compression could speed that up a bit.
I’m in my 30s and really never actually used an old radio like that. Like there were some laying around that nobody used anymore and I kind of played with them as a kid, but I’m right on the cusp of not knowing how to use one.
I still know the kind you tune with a slider on a coil. Same age.
25 soon to be 26, my family liked to camp out in the Mojave when I was a kid so I do know how to use them but even for me I am far more familiar with stereos .
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Most stereos had tuners.
Actually that changed quite a long time ago. Even when FM radio was still a thing, most “receivers” stopped including radio and “tuners” became on external component that not everybody bought. I think our “stereo” in the 80’s had a stand-alone tuner even. That is for a real “stereo”. Boom boxes and the like had it all built in.
The other factor of course is that tuners went digital. Most factory car stereos continue to include digital tuners even today.
Fair enough but I ain’t using the radio element most of the time. I’m using the 8 track, cassette, record, or CD players not really a radio guy it’s been shit for my entire life.
My elderly father was confused when he bought an old style fm radio and found out it was only a Bluetooth speaker.
A <- ox
B <- house
C <- some kind of weapon we don’t even have a name anymore
D <- fish
And so on. This set has been running around for half of the world for thousands of years and yet nobody thinks it’s a problem.
I wonder what other artefacts like that we have.
I’m sure some streamers use “Tune in”, which refers to radio dialing.
“Dashboard” means a whole lot of things, but originally meant a board on a carriage that prevents mud from being “dashed” up to the passengers by horses (I think).
Uh…“meal” is literally a kind of grain that most people probably don’t eat regularly at all, let alone 3x a day.
“Hanging up” the phone, as well as the icon for phon4 calls being a latter 20th century corded handset shape.
