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Ariel Millennium Thornton

There was once a computer expansion standard, popular in the '90s & featured mainly in laptops though used in some desktops as well, called PCMCIA.

PCMCIA is a computer acronym that, of course, stands for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms." :V

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Someone needs to make & sell removable SSDs openly standardized as 3-inch (7-cm) square wafers, together with removable SSD receivers (internal & built-in on laptops and tablets!), that look & work just like floppy disks & drives from days gone by.

The convenience of USB thumbdrives, without the drawbacks of laptop dongles, tiny & easily lost media, & "Which one of these stupid things did I put the files on!?"-itis.

Pictured: 3-inch square wafers of the past as real-world disks & TV props.

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karma

@lenalia I feel like this has been a subject that's come up a lot for me recently. There've been a lot of games that are Exactly My Type Of Shit but I don't exactly recommend them freely without knowing what others are into, or I put it forward with the caveat of "this is my shit, it might not be yours."

The ability to say "this isn't for me but I can see how others might like it" is a very powerful ability.

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Lenalia

Something can be really good and just not your thing. Something can be garbage but be *your* garbage, dammit. This is absolutely, and the world would be a lot less fun if this wasn't the case.

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Lenalia

I was about to type this up in response to another post and thought I'd say it outright:

I'm a strong believer in the idea that no piece of media is for everyone.

No, not even the ones made for mass market consumption (though they try). And, no, not even the one that you, dear reader, hold very close to your heart.

I've bounced off of things that people I know love, and I've had people I know bounce off of things I love. And this is: completely fine. Because no piece of media is for everyone.

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@beatrix I dual boot Windows and linux, so this is me every time when I need a file I got in the other OS

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Beatrix

Whenever a Windows closes, another Linux opens

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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

well, sure enough, but here's the funny part: the Euro was pegged at 1 US dollar… in 1950

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@beatrix Too real 😣

I've got things I really want to do on my list that I've been putting off for years, lol

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Dgar

}={ - - - >•<

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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

the Ukrainian operation on NordStream is a classic example of it being easier to ask for forgiveness than for permsision

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

You remember that time DRAM manufacturers were caught acting as a cartel to fix prices and the fines were smaller than the profit they made as a result? You're never going to guess what happened next!

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myrmepropagandist

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."

I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.

All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.

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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

oh god there's a company called Reflect Orbital that wants to launch tens of thousands of satellites with mirrors on them to allow illuminating 5km-wide zones on the earth in the middle of the light by reflecting sunlight

this is terrifying

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void friend

@hikari At long last, we have created the Satellite Network of Fiery Death from the movie with irredeemable villains, Die Another Day.

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мијушка / miuška

@piegames
Falsehoods Pragrammers Believe About Names at it again shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/

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piegames

Story in two acts

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b-rain

Relatable
#opossum #meme #memes #humor

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Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen

Thirst trap

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Jess 🌺:itsfree: :eggbug: :therian:&

🦊using the "Dream Viewer" you can visualize different possibilities on the given line and place in dream markers. When you're done, you can put them on the playfield for reals

(this is our version of Squeakross' "Logic Assist" feature)

#indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker

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