Most people thought you had to snap them in half to destroy the data, and that the data was on the “down side”. No no my friend, the data is the shiny label part and you can wreck the disc by just flaking some off with a pointy metal thing.

It works and you can create a local account only

now you tell me

Around 20 years ago I started our cities first house doctor computer service. People were in an extreme state of paranoia even letting me use their PC, thinking I was going to steal all their banking information and do all kinds of evil stuff.

Now people are like hey smiling graphic on the screen and this thing says it’s going to help me okay I’ll just give it access to everything

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I bought this for $20 and just sold it today for $160

Works perfectly

Enjoy your feeling of smugness lol

Legacy of the Ancients

Pro tip: Buy great laptops on Marketplace, use Rufus to make an ISO which bypasses the RAM and TPM requirements and lets you make a local account, install Win11 and resell for 2x what you paid

I’ve been rolling in cash with this for the past month

E oh you guys don’t like that lmao 😂😂😂 too bad for you, most people still want windows, I’m there to capitalize on it!!

Thank you. I lived through the “Macs can’t get viruses” bullshit. Try being a teacher in a school with 200 Macs and find out how real that claim is. Yeeeeesh lol… two weeks after fresh imaging and new semester starting 50% of the machines would be completely b0rked

Tormentor from Tormentor❌Punisher!

I have 400+ hours and was HardMode #2WR until I the students I tutored defeated me lol

In my opinion, it’s the best twin stick shooter ever made. Hugely discoverable mechanics, completely skill-based, and a nearly infinite skill ceiling.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/500670/TormentorPunisher/

They gave it away on Epic as well several years ago, check your launcher!

The last six or seven posts to this community that started with “Chinese scientists…” has either been complete bullshit hokum, or so exaggeratory and fast-n-loose with facts it might as well be a direct lie.

Before I get into this story/study, is this any different than those others?

You are talking a lot of philosophical stuff, but the reality was when you wanted to get the low level hardware, there was very little documentation. Even banks of the technical documents had giant blanks saying these are a bunch of video registers and interrupts, basically good luck lol

I don’t sense that you have any actual experience programming on that platform, because if you did you’d know what I’m saying

My assumption was it had something to do with luminosity, but I’m at the end of my technical expertise for this implementation of insane technology lol

Licking doorknobs at the casino, here I go!

(Again)

I think they are referring to innate noise present in the humans. We are electro-chemical beings so there is innate “noise” within our own perceptive systems.

I’m going to actually you lol

The reason it works better with CRT is because of the phosphors. They continue to glow, long after the signal has passed over. Check out a CRT slow motion.

Everything to do with display technology involves tricking the eye and relying on persistence of vision which is innate.

Straight answer, I don’t know lol

Backlit through window

Toplit by LED lamp

There is no way that the pictures I’ve snapped can produce the colors accurately. When I look at that small section, it reflects forest green light back to my eye. The light that passes through seems to be muddy yellowish

I could also see DLP being applied in new QM research… lasers are being increasingly used to trap and manipulate atomic nuclei

You are totally remembering correctly! I recall this as well, but the hype died out quickly.

Oh my beloved C64! I made my first “real” games with it, my buddies were artistic and made the music, sprites, animations, etc. I programmed the tools to make them!

The worst aspect of the C64 was that the hardware was a mostly undocumented mystery zone. As an early teen, I had the C64 programmer’s reference manual checked out of our library for 2 years!!! Doing any kind of advanced graphics meat PEEKing and POKEing random addresses and registers and interrupts to see what would happen. A nightmare! My hat’s off to all the demo scene folks that did ludicrous stuff

edit: My first released game was “Studmaster” replete with every horrible thing your mind is currently imaging lmao. I’m not proud of this now but it was pretty wild for two 14 year old kids in the 80’s to make a small-scale text/graphic adventure game and publish it