bandwidthcrisis

joined 1 year ago

I told you to remember where you parked it.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

You can use it as a webcam if you suddenly need to work from home and there's a shortage of webcams.

Originally I had to install an app for that, but it shows up as a standard USB option on my Pixel now.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I thought that it became MANGA when it changed from FAANG?

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It explains that it means "fan failure".

And there was a link to a video of it happening.

The only other link to an MS support page did not work.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

But you're not allowed to proceed in life until you've pressed any key!

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember an obscure one named "grommit" that was a dancing animated character and you'd click it to change arm and leg movements.

Bonzi buddy was over of the bad ones, maybe?

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Drain.exe would say "water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle" then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.

Sheep.exe ... would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.

It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.

But this was an age when a PC would say "Keyboard error. Press any key to continue", so things were not thought out that well.

 

I grew up knowing a fishcake as being fish sandwiched between two slices of potato covered in batter.

But when I ventured out into the wider world beyond Sheffield, fishcakes were strange breaded minced-up fish things.

Was my whole childhood a lie?

 

Ft. David Goyer & Chris MacLean from the vfx team. Includes several clips from episodes throughout season 2.

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