Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

@Jason_Dodd Specifically looking for the HP Photosmart c500 and the Kodak DC120 Zoom.

This seems simple enough! 👀

@Jason_Dodd obviously, but “condition” has specific guaranteed meanings on eBay, and “used” means it works fine—I’m complaining about sellers trying to be weird for no reason

Seriously I’ve been trying to buy a specific old digital camera for years and every single time people list it as working and I get it and it doesn’t work.

I always get a full refund (eventually).

Like do these sellers think people won’t test what they buy? Do they enjoy making a loss and wasting their time?

eBay seller selling camera as “tested working” and says they can’t show me a picture of the battery compartment and can’t test because “they don’t have batteries” (camera takes normal AA batteries).

sure Jen

The same people insisted for decades that building software is exactly like building a house

Honestly if you want an amazing retro digital camera with all the tricks, get a Sony Cybershot DSC-F828.

It's a 8MP camera from 2003 with 7x optical zoom and funky chicken 4-color Super HAD CCD plus you can do infrared without modifying the camera.

@hp @foone too expensive 😅

@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