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- 22 Lip 2015
I bought a new DVD player, which multiple people have helpfully informed me is an obsolete technology.
Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe
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- 19 Sty 2022
Well, there's appreciation for old obsolete tech. I still use an MP3 player, and everyone who sees it asks me what it is and why I don't use Spotify.
Fuck that, I prefer my MP3s.
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- 22 Lip 2015
Yeah, I don't see the point of paying a second time for shit that I already have on a disc in a drawer. Not to mention how many artists and/or their work get randomly deplatformed or edited to make it more "acceptable for a modern audience". Fuck that.
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- 31 Gru 2022
MP3 players are not at all obsolete. Some older models might be, but the best way to get good quality audio on the go (when you don't have to be aware of your surroundings) is to use locally stored 320 kbps MP3s/FLAC on a modern MP3 player with a decent set of IEMs.
Honestly most of the specialized portable tech that we all used in the 2000s are still viable in modern forms, as exemplified by the market for Android based handhelds. Fuck, even the PDA sort of came back for a little while with the Surface Duo and Duo 2, as Microsoft tried to emphasize that it could be used as a companion to your phone despite running Android and being capable of taking a SIM and making calls.
Also, DVDs tend to look surprisingly good upscaled on TVs, even 4k ones (though it is dependent on the quality of the source material). I've heard that DVDs played back through Media Player Classic can look better through AI enhanced upscaling if you have a graphics card that supports that thing. So far, I've only tried it with DVD resolution files locally stored, but it has been a solid improvement in picture quality.
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- 27 Mar 2019
Does buying a 90 year old car count as an autistic purchase? Because I’m about to put a deposit down on a 1937 Austin 10, and the rest will be paid next week. Gonna get it shipped up here. It’s been sitting for ages but it’s a complete car and runs and drives, which is halfway there to being a good car. Price is good, too.
I love vintage cars, they’re like portable time machines. I’ve been wanting some form of one for decades now, and it’s finally happening. To say I’m excited would be an understatement. Genuinely a dream come true. Feel free to give me puzzle pieces for that, but it’s true.
I love vintage cars, they’re like portable time machines. I’ve been wanting some form of one for decades now, and it’s finally happening. To say I’m excited would be an understatement. Genuinely a dream come true. Feel free to give me puzzle pieces for that, but it’s true.
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- 17 Kwi 2023
My latest autistic purchase is something I've been waiting to get my hands on since it was first announced on Kickstarter in 2014:
The Bibliotheca five-volume Bible set, including the Deuterocanonical books.
It removes all chapter numbers, verse numbers, footnotes, annotations, headings and subheadings, leaving only the text laid out in a clean, single-column format with simple paragraphs, allowing the stories and poetry to flow like in a classic book.
It uses a custom translation created specifically for this Bible set, called the American Literary Version (ALV), which gently updates the American Standard Version from 1901, which itself is a revision of the King James Version. The revision team includes a managing editor who helped develop a style guide for updating the ASV’s archaic vocabulary and punctuation, a team of professional copy editors to apply that style guide consistently across the text, a designated research editor to identify, examine, and present complex issues, a veteran Bible proofreading company to check for errors and ensure consistency, and a review & approval team of 7 Ph.D. biblical language experts.
The printed words are set in a custom typeface, named Katharos, designed from the ground up just for this project. The proportions of the text-to-paper ratio on each page are inspired by the dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant as described in the Bible. Even the line spacing, margins, and paragraph breaks have been calibrated to perfection, for instance, by using hanging punctuation, which allows quotation marks to sit just outside the edge of the text column so as not to disturb the visual flow.
The books are printed on archival paper, made from lignin-free pulp and limestone chalk, milled in Austria by a family-owned company with over four centuries of history. The volumes are Smyth-sewn, allowing the books to lie flat when open. The covers are wrapped in a pure, unbleached cotton bookcloth, custom-dyed and produced in the Netherlands.
The printing and binding are done in Germany by Kösel, a renowned press established in 1593. Even the finishing touches are carefully sourced, with a soft cotton satin ribbon marker from France and durable cotton head and tail bands from the U.K. and the full set is made in Germany by the Spinner Buchbinderei, a third generation family company.
The Bibliotheca five-volume Bible set, including the Deuterocanonical books.
It removes all chapter numbers, verse numbers, footnotes, annotations, headings and subheadings, leaving only the text laid out in a clean, single-column format with simple paragraphs, allowing the stories and poetry to flow like in a classic book.
It uses a custom translation created specifically for this Bible set, called the American Literary Version (ALV), which gently updates the American Standard Version from 1901, which itself is a revision of the King James Version. The revision team includes a managing editor who helped develop a style guide for updating the ASV’s archaic vocabulary and punctuation, a team of professional copy editors to apply that style guide consistently across the text, a designated research editor to identify, examine, and present complex issues, a veteran Bible proofreading company to check for errors and ensure consistency, and a review & approval team of 7 Ph.D. biblical language experts.
The printed words are set in a custom typeface, named Katharos, designed from the ground up just for this project. The proportions of the text-to-paper ratio on each page are inspired by the dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant as described in the Bible. Even the line spacing, margins, and paragraph breaks have been calibrated to perfection, for instance, by using hanging punctuation, which allows quotation marks to sit just outside the edge of the text column so as not to disturb the visual flow.
The books are printed on archival paper, made from lignin-free pulp and limestone chalk, milled in Austria by a family-owned company with over four centuries of history. The volumes are Smyth-sewn, allowing the books to lie flat when open. The covers are wrapped in a pure, unbleached cotton bookcloth, custom-dyed and produced in the Netherlands.
The printing and binding are done in Germany by Kösel, a renowned press established in 1593. Even the finishing touches are carefully sourced, with a soft cotton satin ribbon marker from France and durable cotton head and tail bands from the U.K. and the full set is made in Germany by the Spinner Buchbinderei, a third generation family company.
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- 22 Lip 2015
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- 17 Kwi 2023
Unfortunately, it's printed using either digital printing or offset lithography, rather than letterpress printing, so it's only 99% autistic.
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- Dołączono
- 19 Sty 2022
I'm not religious but that does sound enticingly impressive.
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- 24 Maj 2024
A necklace in the style of Anne Boleyn's famous one.
- Dołączono
- 22 Lip 2015
The pearl monogram?
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- 24 Maj 2024
That's the one, yes.
- Dołączono
- 10 Sie 2022
I have an old phone to use for my music as a dedicated FLAC player. It's android, so I can EQ my headphones automatically with Wavelet, and transfer all my playlists to any other device using Musicolet as my music playing app.
Thead tax: a 1TB SSD to hold a backup copy of all my photos and music at a separate location. Want to follow the 3-2-1 principle of data storage.
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- 27 Mar 2019
400kV. Probably like 2-4, lol. At 400kV it’s pretty damn hard to keep that contained in anything, everything turns into a conductor.
Phalanges Mycologist
kiwifarms.net
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- 11 Wrz 2021
A fellow in the same line of work to me has been making cast iron piggy banks, I've bought myself one and another for my neice.
I've got a couple of cheap ones and they are amazing when trying to find leaks and oddly enough small cracks in metal (with a UV ink) an they are great.
Update on the water situation - my first round of testing kits are at the lab now the rapid tests say the well is good but I am getting a few tests done over a few months just to be sure before I start working out the next steps, I'd rather be safe than sorry an send it off to a few different labs to make sure it's 100% safe an free of contaminants It's not that I don't trust the lab results but I'd rather have the OK from a few sources.
I've got a couple of cheap ones and they are amazing when trying to find leaks and oddly enough small cracks in metal (with a UV ink) an they are great.
Update on the water situation - my first round of testing kits are at the lab now the rapid tests say the well is good but I am getting a few tests done over a few months just to be sure before I start working out the next steps, I'd rather be safe than sorry an send it off to a few different labs to make sure it's 100% safe an free of contaminants It's not that I don't trust the lab results but I'd rather have the OK from a few sources.
- Dołączono
- 8 Sie 2024
Burned a Windows XP cd last week. Still remembered the original FCKGW code ...
Phalanges Mycologist
kiwifarms.net
- Dołączono
- 11 Wrz 2021
Did you get the PS1 working? I've been thinking about DinoCrisis and like to indulge in some escapeisim.