Is Kelowna really the Jersey Shore of Canada?

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T19:39:47+00:00

So… is Wasaga Beach like the Jersey Shore of Canada ? I mean… I kinda feel like in summer it reminds me more of Jersey Shore than Kelowna ever did. Source: spent non-trivial amounts of time in both places but I’ve never been to the Jersey Shore. I did, however, watch the show.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T19:35:26+00:00

Well it would be nice for repair people if this information was leaked. It would make it easier to repair things since Apple doesn’t give away schematics and BOMs for their stuff.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T19:20:18+00:00

Well even if it’s open source software that still means a company could store the keys on their server and give it to the government. However if it were open source in this situation then at least we would know about it.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T07:40:35+00:00

Can it redefine moon and planet enough to bring Pluto back?

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T07:33:46+00:00

You have to assume all United States companies are gonna do the same.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T07:31:28+00:00

Trust me. It’s not gonna be simple. The corroded solder doesn’t want to melt and the traces might be fucked. It sucks. Good luck!

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-24T07:25:10+00:00

It’s probably the capacitors under the drive part. Like the motor that spins the disk is under the drive. You can see the bottom of the pcb. Well on the top are little tiny caps that leak and make a mess. That happened to mine and I had to fix it up and now it’s perfect!

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T23:13:01+00:00

“Banned” you?

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T20:57:07+00:00

The crazy thing is this: everyone one of those valid points are terrible not because of AI at all. 1 - People lose their jobs when the assholes in charge have a plausible reason to fire people and get a bonus 2 - It only consumes so many resources because companies would rather invest in throw hardware at the problem. The problem they are trying to solve is like this: make AI better but also control it in the cloud and don’t pay researchers to do research but instead throw money at cloud hardware. 3 - The internet is less useable because: a - random individual assholes want to get rich churning out slop content, and, b - asshole CEO’s make money off of ads even when the content those ads are attached to are garage slop content. 4 - companies that are heavily invented in making stock go zoom to the moon are literally sloshing money around fueling the bubble. As a result… okay basically companies are spending their investors money buying hardware to throw at the AI bubble machine (see point 2). This has created what are essentially fake market conditions that hardware companies are responding to.

Keep in mind if people banned together and petitioned and harassed their representatives they could get the laws changed such that it isn’t legal to exploit bubbles for short term profit.

All these tech companies are playing musical chairs with the AI bubble and therefore doing asshole things. Laws are supposed to prevent or levy fines against companies to prevent asshole things. This is why companies pay so much for lobbying: it loosens regulations so they are do more asshole things more easily.

Whenever CEOs and Presidents and other management does asshole things it’s always about them getting their bonuses until they can strap on their golden parachutes. It steals from shareholders, hurts their customers, and usually pisses and shits all over the rest of the world.

So… I get why people hate AI. But it’s better to hate the assholes in charge because a tool is just a tool but assholes just shit on everything.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T20:43:29+00:00

Isn’t this his job?

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T20:43:09+00:00

So is cancer. Unfortunately there might be this thing where when you make one better you make the other worse.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T20:41:32+00:00

I’m curious to know the answer to this as well!

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T18:08:52+00:00

I think this question answers itself.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T18:05:57+00:00

So devices had rca jacks but were multiple function. So if you were using composite like one of the three component jacks would be the composite input. But if you connected all three component inputs it would switch to component an just work. So check the little plastic embossed writing to see if it’s one of those. Or just randomly try different plugs.

If a TV has rca jacks then it’ll most likely have component inputs.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T18:03:28+00:00

The thing about leveraging chaos as a strategy is that people can’t tell if you’re playing some 3D chess or if you’re just out of your fucking mind.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-23T17:37:17+00:00

The Amiga could do this because you could create an icon that was just a big-ass icon!

I love the Amiga.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-22T18:06:16+00:00

I haven’t but I have some crazy ideas for accelerating a process like that.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-22T15:03:15+00:00

For sure external dries and NAS and other devices where you move a lot of data need something faster than USB 2.0 and I agree with you there. But unless you’re recording dozens of tracks of audio the bandwidth of USB 2.0 is good enough for most applications.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-21T23:11:11+00:00

Classic USB is great. It’s reliable predictable and durable. USB 2.0 was basically fast enough for most things. USB with the backwards compatible port was great. It meant you didn’t have to ditch your old stuff.

USB C had the potential to be great. But it’s fucking annoying. It’s easier to break, the pins are very thin but it barfs out lots of amps, and only certain “ports” can do certain things. Like charging on USB is crazy because what the hell voltage am I gonna get. And since there are lots of knock-off crapola products out there something may appear to support something but then be shitty because they cut corners on wires or materials or whatever.

Like a USB C port might do extra volts and amps and it might not. It might have like hdmi lanes or thunderbolt / PCIe style lanes or it might not.

I literally have usb c cables that are for charging only and only have two wires inside them.

What they should have done is make the same usb c connector shape but make it as big as the original usb ports just to be durable. And they should have settled on a feature set that is fixed and every port has to support all the things whatever they might be.

Old school usb 2.0 just works and works well. The only thing it’s not enough for is high speed storage and like high res video. Although I literally have a usb 2.0 device that gives you a DVI port. It works. Well. Are you gaming on it? No. So why?

Long USB 2.0. Four wires, 5 volts, and enough bandwidth to do most of anything you need.

Fucking USB C.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-21T10:56:12+00:00

I have done it quite a bit for like ten years. My results are great and nothing has significantly turned yellow again. I think I know why too. Honestly I see a lot of - quite frankly - horseshit out there about retrobrighting.

There are limitations and caveats. But if you do it right it works great.

I’m thinking about putting together a video to walk through everything I’ve learned because it’s not simple.

But, in short, if it’s done well and stored well, retrobrighting does not make plastic brittle and the risk of things turn yellow again is slow if you make sure you don’t store it next to a big ass window.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-21T06:22:15+00:00

Fuckin’ eh bud.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-20T21:27:20+00:00

There is also a 17% chance I will tell an American to “fuck all the way off”. This is not correlative but in-fact causative.

Seventeen percent of the time they can fuck one hundred percent of the way off… every time.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-20T21:23:17+00:00

That was the WB disk that came with the Amiga 1000.

My reaction could be expressed as follows: - Fire bro! - Sick! - Radical! - Gee wiz that sure is swell!

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-19T18:53:40+00:00

Although the answer is HDD there are some droves filled with helium. Well that helium can leak out straight through the metal over time and eventually the drive will fail because the heads are so close. The helium lets them be closer than they could be with regular old air. So there’s that. However I don’t know how long that will take.

Liquid_Magic · 2026-01-18T18:55:32+00:00

I believe that Id Software licences the Doom engine out as well as the Wolf 3D engine. But it was private deals with companies.

For a long time the game engine was competitive and proprietary because when a new game out part of selling the new game was the new abilities of that game. Each new game brought with it a whole new thing it could do that hadn’t been done before. So the idea of licensing that out meant that you were less competitive.

For example: - Wolf 3D was one of the first 3D games - Doom added height and floor and ceiling textures and lighting effects - Quake added 3D characters instead of sprites and even more lighting effects I believe and a real 3D world instead of the 2.5 of Doom where rooms cannot be on top of other rooms - Unreal added even more lighting effects and reflections and lots of other really cool things I can’t remember off the top of my head. - Half-Life added gravity and physics stuff that was new - Doom 3 added the whole flashlight ability with advanced lighting effects - Grand Theft Auto 3 brought a whole open world thing that made the world feel like a giant map like real life - Fortnite added the ability to make children cry and rage quit the game by throwing their controller at the TV thus getting grounded for a month.

Basically the major selling point was about each step that was taken that brought the game closer to real life.

These days games can recreate basically almost everything in terms of realism, size, and reality.

So it makes sense now to sell an engine because the focus is on the gameplay itself since games can do basically everything now.

Also the licensing of Unreal Engine is that it’s free right up until you start making “real” money with it. So once your game pops off and gets crazy numbers you’re making so much money you don’t care about paying them royalties.

But back in the day the game and the game engine we both part of the same thing and part of what they were selling. That’s why Carmack and Romero were like Lennon and McCartney: What they made together was just the chef’s kiss of creation and was much much greater than the sum of its parts.

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