Notices by Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)

I'm too excited not to share this before next week's video because I still doesn't feel real.

That is my Data General microNOVA fully put back together and running flawlessly!

Seeing this working after just having it "around" for so long is wild. A lot of help and luck made this happen. I'm so happy and appreciative that this has been able to come together to this point.

I realized the other day that normal people probably don't have giant bins full of SCSI cables in 2025.

Data General, SERIOUSLY?

This header cable isn't 0.100in spacing, it is 1ft/100 spacing.

Does anyone know anything about this possible Apple II plus desk? I couldn't find any info but bought it anyway because I love period stuff like this.

*sigh*

Nothing like waking up to hearing your UPS causing your servers to constantly reboot because their batteries went bad. Time for some surgery.

Gmail's automatic spam filter knocked this one out of the park.

I am so tired of AI LLM garbage being FORCED into every aspect of life now. Youtube is now providing context aware automatic reply options for creators on the backend.

The erosion of human communication like this is going to have disastrous consequences in the long term.

I keep hearing watch time is the most important thing for for Youtubers, not views. I was checking some of my stats (for the first time ever, lol), it seems I need to be optimizing my channel for the highly lucrative viewer market of those watching on Wii.

They have the highest per view watchtime out of any other operating system, clearly based on the evidence I should be putting all my effort going forward into Wii focused content.

@thomasfuchs I did not last long in that position lol. Thankfully I was able to switch to embedded dev in the same company. But man was that not what I was expecting.

@thomasfuchs
When I started seriously learning software dev independently, I couldn't understand why people used libraries so invasive they may as well have been their own languages. I refused to learn things like JQuery and C++ Boost because I just wanted to know the underlying syntax.

I feel I became a more rounded developer going that route, but it made it much harder to get a job. I eventually landed a job by showing pure LAMP knowledge, only to be bait n' switched to using Sharepoint

@thomasfuchs
I had to look up the camera after seeing it be so low res because I wasn't aware of a 90s 3D camera. I was pretty surprised to see it was so new lol!

@thomasfuchs
Can confirm, that's some pretty nice 3D!

I found it to be inverted with the cross-eyed method and didn't need to flip it to view here as SBS

@thomasfuchs

Right now I've been using an Extron DVS-510 paired with any HDMI capture card that will do full RGB data. It's not perfect, but it's by far the most flexible I have used (which does not include any RetroTink products). The Extron can do Composite, S-Video, Component, VGA, and some other weird stuff if you can adapt it right. The timings are all very adjustable as well and I can get some pretty sold results

If you want a PCIe card, I love my Datapath VisionRGB e1s for VGA capture.

@thomasfuchs
There are a lot of things I haven't messed with like an OSSC and RGB2HDMI. They are probably good, the Extron is just *cheap* while being really solid and the only thing I can't do with it is nearest-neighbor/line-doubling scaling.

Is there a particular thing you want to capture or are you looking for a catchall solution?

@thomasfuchs
Ah yeah, they work fine on the later ones.

I have a Sony DVP-S9000ES which is early for SACD and the laser just isn't up to it anymore. It's just so wretchedly excessive for what it is that I really want to try it lol. They copper plated the *bottom* even!

@thomasfuchs

> SACD

Out of curiosity, do you have a native SACD or only hybrids? I've been meaning to pick up a native one some time but they were only made for like 1 year and are all not very exciting releases.

None of my cool Sony SACD players can detect the DVD layer on hybrid discs so I haven't messed with the format too much.

@thomasfuchs
Hold on now, is this a "phone" without the ability to talk to anyone and a giant red button to block them from calling again?

That sounds pretty great to me

moo

@thomasfuchs
I was never really interested in the 901s since you need the active equalizer. But now that I see they double as a cat plinth...hmmm.

Hard agree though, my SX-780+SA-3200's will still be working long after all the modern stuff has failed in non-repairable ways.

@kiwa
Intel had to save up all their 5's from the 586 and Pentium 5 so they could make Core i5's for the rest of eternity