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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:59:31 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   Ugh I'm lazy

   Fedi, recommend me a laptop with a 3:2 screen and an active stylus? I think that's the closest I'm ever gonna get to going back to my gorgeous Toshiba Tecra M4

   EDIT: not a new laptop obviously haha, like couple hundred bucks on ebay

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:59:29 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @ifixcoinops I had this conversation SO MANY TIMES over the last decade:

     "so when are you going to get a better laptop?"

     "as soon as they actually sell a laptop that's better than this one from 2009"

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:59:30 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     I kept this thing running for like fifteen years because it kicked that much ass

     Nice tall 4:3 screen, 1400x1050 (in 2005!), Wacom tablet built right into the monitor, touchpad AND nipple AND stylus, swivel the screen around and turn it into a tablet, press a button and get a vertical monitor (!!!), pull out the optical drive and replace it with a bigger battery, it Kicked, the Ass

     After 32-bit architecture no longer cut the mustard I went to a desktop and since then I've been sat around sighing and twiddling my thumbs with my laptop-buying cash bored in my wallet patiently waiting for laptop makers to come to their FUCKING SENSES

     tech? no! man, see... and Matthew Lyon repeated this.
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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:00:39 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @ifixcoinops (I'm still waiting of course, but I do appreciate the mad shenzhen hacker collective that built a 2017-era replacement motherboard for it)

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:20:00 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     There are things you can do with your computer that you should never do with your computer because you'll never be able to use another computer again

     Got curious and turned your screen on its side? Oops, can't go back, every laptop will fill you with rage now. You'll start calling 16:9 "shortscreen" and people will give you funny looks and ask you what the problem is.

     Oh, you listened to the office lady with the wrist brace and tried her trackball one time, just ONE DAMN TIME, congratulations, you touched it you bought it, sliding your finger around a trackpad's gonna give you the ick now.

     Tried a split keyboard? Un-hunched your shoulders, didn'tcha! You're REALLY fucked now, pal!

     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat repeated this.
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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:22:13 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @ifixcoinops it's the Bidet Dilemma but for computers

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:23:33 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @ifixcoinops "I'm sorry, you want me to rub ... paper? on my ass?!? and you think that will make it CLEAN???"

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:37:11 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     It's 2024 and laptops still don't have a scroll wheel

     It's 2024 and laptops still can't use the same battery I use for my drill

     It's 2024 and I still can't rotate the screen to vertical on my laptop

     It's 2024 and my laptop still has its keys offset to make room for the typewriter arms

     I swear one of these days I'm gonna build my own laptop and it'll be made out of 3/4" plywood and have a Designated Rat Piss Zone next to the nice warm power supply because I work in the arcade industry and that's all I know

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:37:57 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @ifixcoinops I tried this a few years ago but with 3mm plywood instead of 3/4-inch

     at the time it was nearly impossible to get an SBC board that would run on the kind of battery board that could do pass-thru charging; pine64 was the only contender and their boards tended to just randomly stop working after a while (no idea if the situation has improved since then but I should really look into it)

     https://atreus.technomancy.us/markv

     looks cool as hell tho

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:38:52 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @ifixcoinops I guess a Dan-Fixes-Coinops-brand laptop would be called a ThinkDad