Random thoughts....
2-Mar-22 10:17pm
#1 shadyfozzie
Post your random thoughts, questions, ideas here... I'll start
1) Have you ever watched America's Funniest Videos and wonder why the winning video is almost NEVER funny AT ALL?? We were watching some older episodes on Disney Plus and the final 3 videos are always stupid and not funny, and the worst one ALWAYS wins.. WTF..
2) How have cereal bags NOT been made with zip lock technology??
3) They need to make a container that can keep to-go french fries from getting soggy...
#1 shadyfozzie
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Post your random thoughts, questions, ideas here... I'll start
1) Have you ever watched America's Funniest Videos and wonder why the winning video is almost NEVER funny AT ALL?? We were watching some older episodes on Disney Plus and the final 3 videos are always stupid and not funny, and the worst one ALWAYS wins.. WTF..
2) How have cereal bags NOT been made with zip lock technology??
3) They need to make a container that can keep to-go french fries from getting soggy...
14-Feb-23 4:09pm
#4 ued222
shadyfozzie wrote:
Anyone know why Atomic Heart is $10 more than any other PS4/5 game?Gamepass it and pay the monthly fee for Ultimate? Just use a gaming PC or get a Series S or X.
#4 ued222
shadyfozzie wrote:
Anyone know why Atomic Heart is $10 more than any other PS4/5 game?Gamepass it and pay the monthly fee for Ultimate? Just use a gaming PC or get a Series S or X.
15-Feb-23 9:27am
#5 bill
I've been having some audio issues with my TV/soundbar setup. So, I bought a slightly better toslink cable (fiber optic line, out from the TV, into the soundbar). When I went to remove the old toslink cable, I realized/noticed it still had little rubbery plastic translucent covers over the inner part at the end of the cable. I had assumed it was just like that, but you're supposed to remove them. It's amazing that the cable still worked despite this. Not even sure if it is the cause of my issue, but I did switch to the new cable (removing its covers first).
Googled it and found a youtube video titled "Optical cable.... have you taken the cap off, moron?" Reading all the comments of people who did the same thing made me feel a little better.
#5 bill
I've been having some audio issues with my TV/soundbar setup. So, I bought a slightly better toslink cable (fiber optic line, out from the TV, into the soundbar). When I went to remove the old toslink cable, I realized/noticed it still had little rubbery plastic translucent covers over the inner part at the end of the cable. I had assumed it was just like that, but you're supposed to remove them. It's amazing that the cable still worked despite this. Not even sure if it is the cause of my issue, but I did switch to the new cable (removing its covers first).
Googled it and found a youtube video titled "Optical cable.... have you taken the cap off, moron?" Reading all the comments of people who did the same thing made me feel a little better.
15-Feb-23 10:02am
#6 DarkFact
bill wrote:
I've been having some audio issues with my TV/soundbar setup. So, I bought a slightly better toslink cable (fiber optic line, out from the TV, into the soundbar). When I went to remove the old toslink cable, I realized/noticed it still had little rubbery plastic translucent covers over the inner part at the end of the cable. I had assumed it was just like that, but you're supposed to remove them. It's amazing that the cable still worked despite this. Not even sure if it is the cause of my issue, but I did switch to the new cable (removing its covers first). Googled it and found a youtube video titled "Optical cable.... have you taken the cap off, moron?" Reading all the comments of people who did the same thing made me feel a little better.
My guess is the rubber got breached so it was still making contact, or was it just that the plastic didn't stop the optical signal? Certainly possible that's what was goofing with it, but I'm assuming it was fine until it wasn't? Not sure why it'd get worse over time, maybe the rubber/plastic got cloudy with age.
#6 DarkFact
bill wrote:
I've been having some audio issues with my TV/soundbar setup. So, I bought a slightly better toslink cable (fiber optic line, out from the TV, into the soundbar). When I went to remove the old toslink cable, I realized/noticed it still had little rubbery plastic translucent covers over the inner part at the end of the cable. I had assumed it was just like that, but you're supposed to remove them. It's amazing that the cable still worked despite this. Not even sure if it is the cause of my issue, but I did switch to the new cable (removing its covers first). Googled it and found a youtube video titled "Optical cable.... have you taken the cap off, moron?" Reading all the comments of people who did the same thing made me feel a little better.
My guess is the rubber got breached so it was still making contact, or was it just that the plastic didn't stop the optical signal? Certainly possible that's what was goofing with it, but I'm assuming it was fine until it wasn't? Not sure why it'd get worse over time, maybe the rubber/plastic got cloudy with age.
15-Feb-23 10:38am
#7 bill
Yeah, I think the light was going through the translucent covers. The audio signal must have been impacted, but I honestly can't tell the difference (I've never been much of an audiophile).
The issue I'm having may not have been related to the caps being on at all. I really don't know what's causing it. It's intermittent. It's like a buzzing sound that happens with some dialog, a kind of distortion. The soundbar is doing some processing to augment voices.
The soundbar has 2 optical in ports, so I switched to the other one and that seemed to fix it months ago. But, it came back last week. So, I switched back and that seemed to fix it again... but that doesn't make sense. Maybe some sort of grounding hum issue? So, I thought maybe the cable? The cable is the cheapest thing to replace. I'd also consider getting a new soundbar, but that's more money. It could be the TV too... expensive, but I could upgrade to 4k or whatever. Hopefully, it's fine now... or I'll just keep swapping the cable port.
#7 bill
Yeah, I think the light was going through the translucent covers. The audio signal must have been impacted, but I honestly can't tell the difference (I've never been much of an audiophile).
The issue I'm having may not have been related to the caps being on at all. I really don't know what's causing it. It's intermittent. It's like a buzzing sound that happens with some dialog, a kind of distortion. The soundbar is doing some processing to augment voices.
The soundbar has 2 optical in ports, so I switched to the other one and that seemed to fix it months ago. But, it came back last week. So, I switched back and that seemed to fix it again... but that doesn't make sense. Maybe some sort of grounding hum issue? So, I thought maybe the cable? The cable is the cheapest thing to replace. I'd also consider getting a new soundbar, but that's more money. It could be the TV too... expensive, but I could upgrade to 4k or whatever. Hopefully, it's fine now... or I'll just keep swapping the cable port.
16-Feb-23 7:56am
#8 dunno001
Reading the 10TB drive thread got me thinking about the mid-90s, which another poster brought up. Back then, a few GB was a lot, because programmers could get great games to fit in a few MB. After all, FF6 was only 3 MB! And then I realized- you could fit both FF6 and Chrono Trigger on a standard PS2 memory card…
#8 dunno001
Reading the 10TB drive thread got me thinking about the mid-90s, which another poster brought up. Back then, a few GB was a lot, because programmers could get great games to fit in a few MB. After all, FF6 was only 3 MB! And then I realized- you could fit both FF6 and Chrono Trigger on a standard PS2 memory card…
19-Feb-23 4:15am
#10 ChrisKW1
What's really crazy to me is that a standard C64 floppy was 170 kilobytes and had thousands and thousands of games that were only one or two disks in size, with only 64k of RAM to run both the OS and game in. Some really great games in that era too.
#10 ChrisKW1
What's really crazy to me is that a standard C64 floppy was 170 kilobytes and had thousands and thousands of games that were only one or two disks in size, with only 64k of RAM to run both the OS and game in. Some really great games in that era too.
19-Feb-23 6:46am
#11 benstylus
ChrisKW1 wrote:
What's really crazy to me is that a standard C64 floppy was 170 kilobytes and had thousands and thousands of games that were only one or two disks in size, with only 64k of RAM to run both the OS and game in. Some really great games in that era too.
I remember the days of saving and loading games from tapes. We had a vic20 when I was a wee lad. I about flipped out when a friend brought over an actual cartridge and the game loaded almost instantly.
On the subject of c64, there is still a very active development scene for the thing. Really cool to see what people are STILL doing with those kinds of limitations.
#11 benstylus
ChrisKW1 wrote:
What's really crazy to me is that a standard C64 floppy was 170 kilobytes and had thousands and thousands of games that were only one or two disks in size, with only 64k of RAM to run both the OS and game in. Some really great games in that era too.
I remember the days of saving and loading games from tapes. We had a vic20 when I was a wee lad. I about flipped out when a friend brought over an actual cartridge and the game loaded almost instantly.
On the subject of c64, there is still a very active development scene for the thing. Really cool to see what people are STILL doing with those kinds of limitations.
20-Feb-23 2:53am
#12 ChrisKW1
benstylus wrote:
On the subject of c64, there is still a very active development scene for the thing. Really cool to see what people are STILL doing with those kinds of limitations.
Yeah, I've played a few of them, got theC64 mini somewhere as well. Was my favorite computer back in the day.
#12 ChrisKW1
benstylus wrote:
On the subject of c64, there is still a very active development scene for the thing. Really cool to see what people are STILL doing with those kinds of limitations.
Yeah, I've played a few of them, got theC64 mini somewhere as well. Was my favorite computer back in the day.
20-Feb-23 5:32am
#13 lordly_llama
Commodore was before my time, but I always thought having a Commodore PET would be neat.
#13 lordly_llama
Commodore was before my time, but I always thought having a Commodore PET would be neat.
20-Feb-23 7:00am
#14 rayzor6
I had a a Tandy Color Computer that the difference between pulling programs off cassette and floppy where crazy! My high school 'computer lab' was 10x C64's! My dad was the one with the passion for computers even in the early 80s and I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know why. He never played video games but was the first to get me a Odyssey 2 for Christmas and then the family always had a computer in the house.
#14 rayzor6
I had a a Tandy Color Computer that the difference between pulling programs off cassette and floppy where crazy! My high school 'computer lab' was 10x C64's! My dad was the one with the passion for computers even in the early 80s and I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know why. He never played video games but was the first to get me a Odyssey 2 for Christmas and then the family always had a computer in the house.
20-Feb-23 8:08am
#15 John
lordly_llama wrote:
Commodore was before my time, but I always thought having a Commodore PET would be neat.
VIC-20 was fun. C64 was great. C128 was great. But the PET is not something I'd want except for a display piece maybe...
#15 John
lordly_llama wrote:
Commodore was before my time, but I always thought having a Commodore PET would be neat.
VIC-20 was fun. C64 was great. C128 was great. But the PET is not something I'd want except for a display piece maybe...
21-Feb-23 7:59pm
#16 ChrisKW1
They were all great products of their time, some stand up better than others. But they were state of the art 30-40 years ago and started a lot of us onto careers in computers.
Some of the ingenuity on display in those simpler games makes them better than modern games that are high on flashy graphics and low on substance lol
#16 ChrisKW1
They were all great products of their time, some stand up better than others. But they were state of the art 30-40 years ago and started a lot of us onto careers in computers.
Some of the ingenuity on display in those simpler games makes them better than modern games that are high on flashy graphics and low on substance lol
21-Feb-23 8:56pm
#17 Foxhack
I've messed around with those systems via emulators and... nothing makes sense to me. XD
#17 Foxhack
I've messed around with those systems via emulators and... nothing makes sense to me. XD
21-Feb-23 10:58pm
#18 ChrisKW1
It was a much simpler time, you had to load things from disks or tape with command line strings. Most modern emulators will let you attach a disk image and auto start them, though
#18 ChrisKW1
It was a much simpler time, you had to load things from disks or tape with command line strings. Most modern emulators will let you attach a disk image and auto start them, though
22-Feb-23 6:18pm
#20 ChrisKW1
I didn't have a 128 until I was already an adult so my go-to was:
LOAD"*",8,1
READY.
RUN
#20 ChrisKW1
I didn't have a 128 until I was already an adult so my go-to was:
LOAD"*",8,1
READY.
RUN
22-Feb-23 6:58pm
#21 Frank
John wrote:
lordly_llama wrote:> Commodore was before my time, but I always thought having a Commodore PET would be neat. VIC-20 was fun. C64 was great. C128 was great. But the PET is not something I'd want except for a display piece maybe...
I had a boxed VIC-20 years ago! It didn't work when I initially got it, and I left it to rot in my garage for a couple years. A high school friend and I actually ended up reviving it, and getting it to work.
The thing literally just sat in my collection room untouched for so many years after. Last year that friend hit me up, despite years of no contact, asking if I still had the VIC-20. I ended up selling it to him.
It was a cool thing to have, but ultimately I don't have any attachment to these weird old PCs... meanwhile I have two C64s and an Atari 800 that I need to figure out WTF to do with. I MIGHT keep the CIB C64, but the Boxed 800 and other C64 should probably go.
#21 Frank
John wrote:
lordly_llama wrote:> Commodore was before my time, but I always thought having a Commodore PET would be neat. VIC-20 was fun. C64 was great. C128 was great. But the PET is not something I'd want except for a display piece maybe...
I had a boxed VIC-20 years ago! It didn't work when I initially got it, and I left it to rot in my garage for a couple years. A high school friend and I actually ended up reviving it, and getting it to work.
The thing literally just sat in my collection room untouched for so many years after. Last year that friend hit me up, despite years of no contact, asking if I still had the VIC-20. I ended up selling it to him.
It was a cool thing to have, but ultimately I don't have any attachment to these weird old PCs... meanwhile I have two C64s and an Atari 800 that I need to figure out WTF to do with. I MIGHT keep the CIB C64, but the Boxed 800 and other C64 should probably go.
Random thoughts....