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today I learned that the Philips CD-i consoles have a clock battery which is permanently formed into the clock chip, meaning you have to *break open the chip enclosure* to replace it 😨 cdii.blogspot.com/2009/03/pict

@finn@surfin.dog he has a WIFE you know.
Do you want to know what her name is?

@finn@surfin.dog this is so so cursed and I'm so glad we could bring it to live

computer problems? if you don't have the ice badge, anything over 1GHz won't listen to your commands

@finn@surfin.dog look, looksie wif ur special eyes uwu

Expectation: ooh a bill wurtz song video called "I'm a princess"! This will be fun and silly!
Reality: ... Why am I getting Feelings

"dipshit scientists somehow stunned by revelation that indigenous tribes were doing agriculture 200 years ago, show asses further by making a big deal about it"

sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/pa

@Ironsquid@mas.to that is exactly what it is. apparently someone's made a similar toaster oven that has a subscription model for food packages, and a "scan-to-cook" app. and it requires to be always online, and only works with their food they sell. because VCs never learn.

dude is hacking it to work so it doesn't need to be wifi connected apparently. lol.

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yeah who else forgot the juicero existed? I didn't. :3 I rememebr that meme. i always remember the juicero :3

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watching a total teardown of the Juicero. The internal construction of it is... surprisingly beautiful and gorgeous.
completely overengineered for the snake oil that it is, but gotta respect the build quality

re: my art 

@SerenaBeancatte@chitter.xyz always be favvin kobolds yes

@monorail yes.

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honestly I think I've actually typed u xocuowo before.

@softgoat 80 degrees C is actually fine and well within tolerances. If I recall rightly, 90 degrees is the absolute limit of tolerance for GPUs under full load, and that's kinda the 'red line' for it really. Your gpu is pretty healthy. So long as the fans are doing their jobs, you'll be okay.

Microsoft now owns, or will soon own, one of the best text-to-speech engines for blind power-users, through its acquisition of Nuance. But the code has been abandoned for years. It seems unlikely that this TTS engine is a valuable asset for Microsoft. So let's petition them to open-source it. change.org/p/microsoft-open-so (No, I didn't start the petition, but I'm in agreement with it.)

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