FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Q: How do you decompress a firearm's 3D model?

A: gunzip.

the root beer here is really salty and flat and the cups are too small

Today's Random Game Saturday is Zen-Nihon Joshi Pro Wrestling: Queen of Queens for the PC-FX! An FMV wrestling game across two-disks with actual footage of Japanese women pro wrestlers from 1995, just a few years before AJW started to collapse

a 100% realistic N64 emulator would emulate the "previous owner of this cartridge got stuck at the water temple" effect

my personal pet peeve is websites that have some badly coded javascript

I wrote an email!

Hopefully never have to do this again

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

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.

Whenever a Windows closes, another Linux opens

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

}={ - - - >•<

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

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!

"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.

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

@piegames
Falsehoods Pragrammers Believe About Names at it again https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/