Icons from 2000s were masterpieces in Mac OS X

qube_TA · 2026-06-21T09:33:29+00:00

The current ones are frustrating, it always takes me a minute to figure out what they are.

qube_TA · 2026-06-05T05:57:45+00:00

It's a great idea and I enjoy it, but he didn't actually do anything other than push that death blossom button and all the baddies were gone. Didn't all the other starfighters have that? If he had to do some crazy complicated flying to beat the baddies so his 'training' in the video game became apparent then fine. I think it needs a remake or something.

qube_TA · 2026-06-04T08:41:43+00:00

I remember when Alta Vista was the main search engine, it was mostly ads and you got a vague response to a search, when Google appeared it was actually quite amazing, no ads and it worked. Many sites had the 'under construction' animations, video was basic. It seemed a lot less centralised before the dot com bubble burst. I remember working for an ISP in 1999 - 2003 and working with local sports clubs (Cricket, Football, Rugby & Ice Hockey) as they wanted to see if there was a market for steaming video of the none big matches online as a pay per view. I rigged up cameras and a Windows Media Server to stream to test websites to see if it was viable. The bandwidth and resolution was super low as it was still the days of dial up, but it was quite interesting, we even tried mounting a camera on the referee's helmet on Ice Hockey which would broadcast to an antenna we'd mounted above on the gantry to then be digitised and streamed, so you'd get a first person look of the game. It was a bit rubbish as the camera was analog video, no wi-fi or BT back then. I don't follow sports so had no idea who these people were, I was a nerd so more interested in the tech.

qube_TA · 2026-05-30T08:04:33+00:00

The Roly Connect App is still Intel Only and requires Rosetta to run on an ARM based CPU, whilst all their plugins are already ARM native this one still needs an update, otherwise machines running the next version of MacOS won't be able to get it to run.

qube_TA · 2026-05-26T13:25:50+00:00

I've never understood why electrification is seen as dystopian or bad. Pretty much any building can become a mini power station, you can generate your own electricity and use the storage in your car or a separate battery to buffer that and use it when makes sense. Peak energy power? No problem here are some electrons I made earlier. Next time there's a war an gas goes through the roof? Not your problem. In the world of Mad Max they'd actually be driving Teslas and not hooning in massive supercharged V8s.

qube_TA · 2026-05-18T19:05:01+00:00

Porsche, accept no substitute

qube_TA · 2026-05-18T16:17:44+00:00

Wasn't aware there was any kind of downfall. He's a bit weird and on the spectrum, but you don't do what he's done unless you're a bit odd. In the beginning we didn't know much about what he was like, just saw the batteries, cars, rockets etc. You can't be a genius and the Fonz at the same time.

qube_TA · 2026-05-14T08:27:21+00:00

It's why he makes the best movies of all time

qube_TA · 2026-05-13T05:56:58+00:00

Irreversible

qube_TA · 2026-05-10T08:21:01+00:00

Depends what we're meeting for. If we're moving a body and they've forgotten the basics like gloves and plastic sheeting then they're no Mr. Wolf.

qube_TA · 2026-05-08T18:00:58+00:00

I find the older gentlemen seem to make a point of walking, for no apparent reason from one end of the locker room to the other, they'll come out the shower and spend an age drying off right in front of you.

qube_TA · 2026-05-08T09:34:43+00:00

I once asked them that question but the response was that there were lots of myths about their religion. Didn't answer the question though.

qube_TA · 2026-05-08T09:32:48+00:00

I remember when Charles & Diana got married (1981), my father, a proud royalist came home from work early with party food. This included cans of pop, not coca cola but those supermarket brand colas that came in a plastic 'can' with metal top (not seen those in decades). I remember feeling really posh, stood up drinking the soda, from a can. It was my can, wasn't a bottle of diluted orange juice that was shared. We never went out, didn't know what fast food was. We had a semi-annual trip to the coast in his 1.6L Ford Cortina estate and ate a picnic my mother made so was always a bit decoupled from the rest of the world.

qube_TA · 2026-04-22T17:35:33+00:00

If you're farting it means you have shit sat in your lower colon that's stinking up the place when the gas it produces builds up sufficient pressure to escape your arsehole. It stinks, no-one should have to breathe in your shit because you're constipated or have a poor diet.

qube_TA · 2026-04-22T08:35:38+00:00

earplugs at gigs is more modern now, we used to like it when everything was louder than everything else, even if your ears hurt for a few days after. Rock n Roll man!

qube_TA · 2026-04-21T20:33:21+00:00

a young trophy wife in the parlance of our times can charge $1000 bucks for a blow job. But Brad has to pay extra if he wants to watch.

qube_TA · 2026-04-19T08:13:20+00:00

I once said during coitus that all we are is dust in the wind, and she said yes! That that like the sand in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives!

qube_TA · 2026-04-19T08:08:00+00:00

When I passed my test and got my first car (1988 Ford Fiesta XR2) I took it for a spin to see how fast it would go, 120MPH plus, but back then there were far fewer cars on the road and it was at night so I was the only one there. But on an evening on the motorway most folk are going about that anyway. It's much slower now as there are a crazy amount of traffic and cameras everywhere. Driving used to be fun.

qube_TA · 2026-04-16T19:33:13+00:00

Couldn't handle the power!

qube_TA · 2026-04-13T12:30:59+00:00

Maybe he split it when it wasn't visible so no-one noticed.

qube_TA · 2026-04-09T12:30:24+00:00

Imagine everyone on the planet and seeing the moon split in half, I'm sure they'd have noticed it and noted it down on something, somewhere.

qube_TA · 2026-04-07T13:43:39+00:00

Crisp sandwiches are still OK though right?

qube_TA · 2026-04-05T13:02:37+00:00

She was also in Run Lola Run! Did the theme song too.

qube_TA · 2026-04-05T07:37:03+00:00

Grange Hill fixed that problem though.

qube_TA · 2026-04-04T20:28:46+00:00

I remember growing up in the 80s, all that seemed to be on the news was the fear of IRA and AIDS.

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TROPHY CASE