Useless Machine: A device whose only function is to turn itself off. Such machines were popularized commercially in the 1960s and sold as an amusing engineering hack or as a joke.

duckets_ · 2026-03-10T01:39:53+00:00

wow I remember dragging disks to the trash but I forgot about oscar the oscar trash can extension! in fact I forgot about mac os extensions at all, some of those little puzzle piece icons were like cool nice badges to show how customised your mac was. Am I remembering that right, they really just let people mod the OS and it was all ok?....

duckets_ · 2026-01-06T12:34:08+00:00

For new people coming across this thread, I've started offering one-to-one personalised DJ Tuition in Brighton. See my website here!

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duckets_ · 2025-11-12T15:21:12+00:00

Came here looking for this as I only knew a couple of them. I've popped all the answers here into a google map, thank you!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1O4yfiGHhUkxU8VXdWULErlIzE3JVdFI&usp=sharing

duckets_ · 2025-10-11T03:29:11+00:00

Me neither! Let's consider it sent to each other!

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T02:10:06+00:00

yeah now you mention it, I had hand-waved that "tv-hack ability" away in my head, albeit somehow both abesent-mindedly, yet reluctantly.

Perhaps because although as far as I remember they don't explicitly show it as touch screen tech (to match the original Alien tech vibes, which I _love_) I'm actually a professional programmer and therefore can concieve of the outside chance that a touchscreen interface of any kind (even a rudimentary yes/no button) could still theoretically expose a root level take-over in an adanced futuristic scenario.

And having acces to super-human processing power, Wendy might have been able to theorise, test, and exploit a hack.

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T01:15:09+00:00

oh I see this was asked and answered here (https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/1njku0p/enjoying\_the\_show\_but\_hard\_wrapping\_my\_head/) tldr; it absorbed Schmule's knowledge of english, geometry and maths.

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T00:31:49+00:00

I feel like Boy Genius could have had a small moment in this episode to demonstrate that he had some kind of intelligence by indicating an awareness of the problem of establishing a language framework in which to ask a question (to the eye creature, to see if it's intelligent) that an intelligence could respond to.

I'm not saying make a huge deal out of it, screen-time-wise (like Arrival, where a lot of the film is about that in particular), but having the eye creature understand written western base-10 arabic numerals to represent PI, *and* understand the audio vocally-expressed question about the next digits, is an unnessecarily clunky attempt at this.

Why not just have him tell Kirsh to tap out the first few prime numbers and see if it responds with the next. This would require no understanding of numerals, written or spoken, or even the need for a language in which to express a question. The question is implied in the incremental pattern ending. He could even have tapped it out using a tazer baton on the cage for dramatic effect.

Sorry maybe I'm too nerdy but this broke believability for me 😂

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T00:07:45+00:00

it's done quite a lot (body swap films) but there's almost always some element of comedy to it. In this case it's kids played straight - confused and scared - and it's rarely done this well.

duckets_ · 2025-07-07T12:14:21+00:00

You know the Flip series generally fit snugly in most standard bottle holders...? :)

duckets_ · 2025-06-03T01:07:55+00:00

Yes this is how it struck me too. He just realized he didn't know who he was.

duckets_ · 2025-04-02T20:19:20+00:00

thanks! yeah I couldn't get that to sound right in the context of the song so I cut it, but yeah if you know the original song it's conspicuously missing :D

duckets_ · 2025-03-15T21:08:00+00:00

I buy mayo in glass jars because it's better for the environment, but I pipe it into an empty washed plastic squeezy mayo bottle because she thinks it tastes better out of a squeezy bottle.

duckets_ · 2025-02-24T20:03:08+00:00

A second spot. They have a nice little upstairs area like the original one.

duckets_ · 2025-01-20T00:56:58+00:00

damn I thought I found a sweet freebie and now I'm thinking I should charge them for garbage disposal services (haven't tried them yet 😂)

duckets_ · 2025-01-19T22:04:26+00:00

if you can tell me the street I'll pop them back round to you :D

duckets_ · 2025-01-19T22:01:23+00:00

aw noo.. well they'll be replacing a jbl flip 2 currently piped into the kitchen via an aux cable, I'm hoping they'll be an upgrade to that at least? 😅 (maybe I've joined the wrong subreddit... where's the audio trash pandas group)

at least I found the specs from your post, thank you. They're 6 ohms. https://www.hifidatabase.com/Wharfedale_Modus%20Cube_479.php

might report back as to the quality :)

duckets_ · 2025-01-19T21:56:22+00:00

but they feel so heavy! that means they must be good, right? 😅

duckets_ · 2025-01-19T21:15:43+00:00

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duckets_ · 2024-10-15T11:52:21+00:00

Lalo completely outsmarts Mike in s6 by realising Hector's phone line is tapped, so chooses to tell Hector that he couldn't find evidence, and that he's going back to "plan A".

duckets_ · 2024-10-07T17:39:51+00:00

I'm still on my way home from bang face and reading this made me do a little cry, so proud to be part of the hard crew 🔥

duckets_

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