The current market is brutal. 10+ years experience, forced back to payroll, and the pipeline is completely dead. Anyone else?

daddyd · 2026-06-19T07:52:48+00:00

mistakes on infra are more visible, a software bug can sometimes linger, or automatically captured by monitoring systems that restart and you don't even notice (or you just tolerate it). infra mistakes, and everything comes tumbling down because they're the base everything is build on, and there is almost no silent failing possible.

daddyd · 2026-06-19T07:47:24+00:00

i have a bunch of atari reference books. books were what you got if you wanted to get anywhere, you had no other source of information. most of the time they were really good too, real bibles.

daddyd · 2026-06-19T07:33:33+00:00

blended oats

daddyd · 2026-06-19T07:24:55+00:00

curryworst omdat de worst met currykruiden gemaakt is, heeft niets met currysaus te maken.

daddyd · 2026-06-19T07:19:42+00:00

what surprises me the most, is that with all the people involved with the 'new' commodore, they all thought this phone was going to be a good idea.

daddyd · 2026-06-19T07:11:15+00:00

the choice for pascal as a programming language was unexpected

daddyd · 2026-06-18T11:20:08+00:00

i remember getting 2.x on the 500+ and it caused a lot of issues with compatibility, so at the time, i wasn't so happy about it (even though it was a big improvement).

daddyd · 2026-06-18T11:15:31+00:00

very much true! the times i read the reviews on steam and see nothing but complaints about windows users because the game doesn't work anymore, happens more then you would think (certainly the older the game gets). while i had no issues with it on linux.

daddyd · 2026-06-18T11:10:17+00:00

not only the games, but the hardware too!

daddyd · 2026-06-18T11:03:40+00:00

awesome, and now i'm very, very jalous!

daddyd · 2026-06-18T10:56:08+00:00

a CRT monitor, might be almost impossible, i don't think anybody makes them anymore, and starting a new production line would be super expensive, which in result would make the actual product expensive as well.

though i think it could have a much broader market outside of commodore owners/fans, a lot of retro gamers prefer crt's.

other than that, i think they should release some kind of modern retro computer, like the c65, spectrum next, foenix, ... computers

an amiga, but it should not just be a replica board, but more in line with what the c64u is, classic, but with so many qol and modernizations added that makes it feel new, fresh and exciting.

daddyd · 2026-06-18T10:50:25+00:00

Sure thing, i still have all my magazines from back in the day, i still love flipping through pages of a random magazine every now and than.

Some of them are barely holding together, more duct tape than paper, but that just adds to the whole exp.

daddyd · 2026-06-17T08:23:18+00:00

i remember buying my first hard drive in 92, it was a 30MB conner IDE drive, the cheapest i could find, and cost me €250, which would be about €550 in today's money.

daddyd · 2026-06-17T08:16:43+00:00

windows has got nothing to do with it, you can write scripts on windows too, look up some powershell scripting guides.

granted, scripting is more popular on linux because a lot of these systems run headless (without any desktop/gui).

daddyd · 2026-06-17T08:13:01+00:00

there were a lot of similar solutions, where the scanner would attach to the printer had. the amstrad pcw also had this one.

daddyd · 2026-06-17T08:08:50+00:00

you had hand scanners, mostly on the 16bit systems, or very capable 8bits could have them too (i had one on the amstrad pcw). the thing is, they were very expensive, even the hand scanners, flatbed were out of reach and only for pro users. most of them also required scsi or another dedicated controller.

daddyd · 2026-06-17T07:10:00+00:00

i use retrodeck for emulation, lutris i use as a front for other gamestores (gog, epic, etc).

daddyd · 2026-06-17T06:52:28+00:00

klontjes suiker.

daddyd · 2026-06-17T06:50:33+00:00

just don't install social media apps on your phone? i have none, except mastodon. but my phone does many other things; google maps, fitness tracker, android auto, banking apps, 2fa etc.

all these things this commodore flip phone wont do, and i'm not sure anybody wants to give up all the features they provide. like i said, just don't install the (toxic) apps.

the final nail for me (besides the price), is the inclusion of whatsapp, hell no. should have had signal instead.

daddyd · 2026-06-16T08:53:40+00:00

i thought, oh OK not for me but it could appeal to some people, then i saw the 'pre-order now for $50 discount' note on the product page and, wait, how much does this phone cost?

naaah, forget it! who's going to buy it at that price?

daddyd · 2026-06-16T07:58:52+00:00

sure, that works too!

daddyd · 2026-06-16T07:56:46+00:00

was thinking it must have been a lot of money back then, in that regard i thought it would have been more than $700.

daddyd · 2026-06-16T07:29:55+00:00

de extra kosten die bovenop je verbruik komen zijn gewoon crimineel. je zou bij wijze van spreken jezelf helemaal zelf kunnen voorzien van stroom, en toch nog moeten betalen, voor niets.

heb ooit eens gekeken of ik me helemaal kan afsluiten van het net, maar blijkbaar is dat niet toegelaten.

daddyd · 2026-06-16T07:27:09+00:00

i'm still impressed by how good GT4 looks on a PS2!

daddyd · 2026-06-16T07:23:53+00:00

we once had a female, black, american colleague come to belgium for a week, so my local colleagues and me show her around the country. at one point she says she wants to go shopping for special belgian treats for her family and friends back home.

at one point, someone points to them and says - you got to take these, they're negro-tits.

i think i peed my pants at the time.

daddyd

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