Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 7

@foone at least laptops are much more hoardable, I mean collectible, as they take up less space

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115929393014353710

this is great for when you forget your password!

@Rairii those were the days

@_ThomasTeichert hmm, I think I will try as I had no luck with other methods

thanks & crossing fingers!

@Rairii the Mac 512k is 68k tho

check and mate

@techdad well, they only ever made one player in that size so it's fair to say those mini cd's didn't go anywhere.

years later they started to get used for driver CDs to make packages like for small digital cameras smaller.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@deutschestechnikmuseum/115922133533433758

This is an extremely amazing museum and I'd highly recommend a visit if you're ever in Berlin.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115929450635562848

Tried all three variants of it and nada, I think the cpu or storage is bad.

Diagnostics said no hardware problems.

I’ll try booting of USB but need to make a drive for that

@techdad they didn’t really, it was meant for Mini CDs, which fit fully into it—however they made so you can use it for normal CDs as well

@foone I think you need to attack it with a Prompt Claude

iMac Pro hosed itself so bad that normal recovery boot doesn’t work, so using Internet recovery 🥴

oh no I got another 90s Toshiba laptop, this is a sickness

[looks up from my Mac 512k]

What?!

@alda 👀

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115929002012049186

What this means is that companies don’t launch new versions of most software today because of anything that users want or need.

The reason they launch new versions is somewhere between profit optimization and sunk cost fallacy about their team of developers.

I bet if you were a power-user of it, you could back in day tell what new features Photoshop 5 had over Photoshop 4.

Try finding anyone who knows what new features are in Chrome 144 over Chrome 143.

@elithebearded @acejacek note it's all a forecast and conditions can change pretty quickly

The Sony catalog from 1989/1990 has HUNDRED AND FIFTY PAGES of the most amazing audio and video equipment you've ever seen.

Today everything is a small black rectangle.

Sad.

https://archive.org/details/sony-gesamtkatalog-1989-90/page/n1/mode/2up

@tvdv I'm still mad at them. It was the best text processor since FrameMaker.

@tvdv @ikenndac literally found this when tidying today