"We know Diamond explains it is making a player, but we understand it to be a recorder. I think it's well established, under international copyright law, that the reproduction that occurs inside the Rio constitutes a recording."
- Some clown from the RIAA
The "reproduction" above referring to transferring mp3's onto the mp3 player or whatever tortured logic they're trying to use there
I know there are way worse and way more evil :porky-happy: that have caused the world infinitely more tangible harm out there but I hate these copyright ghouls so, so much
Lmfao this PR firm :
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On their website: https://www.skdknick.com/
"SKDK is the go to shop for Biden Democrats"
You don't say? :thonk:
LGR is always a cool watch. There was one recently from a vintage computing festival in Illinois.
Ncommander is a nice and up and comer if you don't mind watching him play with hardware and software for hours on end without the pro editing of LGR. His christmas live feed was nice as he was trying to save old hardware.
Salvaging old hardware is still the most sustainable way to use computers. The embodied energy in manufacturing hardware is so much worse then what a x86/amd64 CPU will ever use in it's lifetime as well as the ecological crime of dumping the stuff in third world countries. The 3-5 year artifical lifespan of computer hardware is the phoebus cartel of our era when we all know desktops still lasting twenty years.
I am probably horribly wrong but If there was a cohesive global plan to reduce emissions ASAP would require that computer hardware production be frozen to commodity parts based on existing slots/dimms. Over time commodity hardware would replace DVRs/Game Consoles with the triumphant return of the home media PC and your ISP's shitty router with something running OpnWRT or OPNSense that you don't need to replace every six months. They will eat more energy but solar and wind are getting cheaper and cheaper. Their hardware's performance will be stunt but that should be replaced with actually competent software development.
Blazing fast current-year hardware immediately bogged down by all the new trackers and new slop coding that capitalists add within a year or two.
Phones from 8 years ago should still be fast. Just look at what video game consoles can do when developers actually target specific hardware for 7-10 years.
The web has become such a dumpster fire that I am trying to stay within the confines of archive.org and the gemini protocol for my own sanity. This is while praying that the IA doesn't fuck up their clunky imperfect but predictable design with a js monstrosity with 72pt fonts that searches every-time you press a key. The Gemini protocol is cool but you can only read so many gemlogs about burn out and depression the odd time there is something interesting like this gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-07.sabin.gmi
Thanks for the rec! And I agree. That's why I still have my Creative Zen player (it's a glorified jump drive at this point, but still...).
Diamond voodoo was the nvidea rtx of its day. When 3dfx came out it was a big deal.
3Dfx Voodoos in SLI mode were the first setup that could do 1280x1024 fully-textured 3D at home at 30 fps+.
At the time commercial solutions for 3D like SGI cost 10x the price in desktop form - SGI and other workstation companies were absolutely furious. SGI's last attempt at a low-end desktop 3D workstation was in 1996 when the Voodoo launched. Then slowly each product cycle they lost more and more market share to much cheaper PC workstations. Within 10 years they stopped making most of their own hardware.
I remember one early 90s "Take Your Kid to Work Day" where I went with my dad to Scientific Atlanta. They had some Silicon Graphics workstations that he showed me and he goes, "They look like toys but they cost $25,000," and my mind was blown because that was just south of what a Chevy Corvette or Porshce 911 cost at the time.
I bought one of these after someone stole my CD collection in high school.
