Yeah, I used to install those a couple years ago as a security tech.

Unless they are at the register, those screens don’t even record back to a central DVR. Just a local SD card inside the screen itself. The only wire running to them is low voltage DC power, no video or network. Those things aren’t really an issue in the grand scheme, they are less intrusive than a regular security camera since you can’t even view them live at the head end.

Now the bigger ones hanging from a pole in the ceiling, yes those ARE being centrally recorded.

The acronym kinda sounds like an STD.

Congratulations. It’s come a loooong way. Long live Konqi the cyberdragon.

We’ve known this since September 1993, but we just let it keep going. I don’t think anyone can actually stop it or knows how, unless we get hit with an asteroid or something.

Perfect mathematical corners/angles. You’d cut yourself on everything. Unless the holodeck can apply a little CRT fuzz.

Now hang on, 2008 ain’t that old…

Realizes it was 17 years ago

Slowly walks into the sea.

For shits and giggles I played with them in a virtual machine a couple years ago. They are near fucking useless.

Off topic, but I think it’s funny that the cutoff for a more modern worldview ends at 50 now, because all the older millennials are well into their 40s now and we have to include them because they were a main driving force behind “occupy” movement 14 years ago.

10 years ago you saw “under 40” being thrown around. 😂

WTF did the furries do? Why are they involved in all this at all?

Pass the bricks.

As someone who uses scissor lifts a lot, I wish the manufacturers standardized on one way. Some have you push the joystick forward to descend, others will raise the platform when doing the same. I’ve damn near smashed some things in the ceiling going the wrong way for a second.

This is the most boomer-y comment I’ve read in a while. I remember my parents saying shit like this about me and my NES.

The bassline outros in his TV show were funnier than the man himself.

Why/how does a digital camera manage to fuck your face up so bad? Every wrinkle, pore, crater, valley is accentuated vs. looking relatively smoother in the mirror.

Amazing how wide the gaps can be in tech. A friend of mine is all over Windows power shell scripting of which I know next to nothing about, but he’s just as stumped when he sees me writing C for embedded microcontrollers.

But people who aren’t heavily into tech will just look at both of us and ask to fix their printer because we’re both “good with computers”. 🤣

Sure, potato is nice, but also running Linux on an actually powerful machine is also very nice. I love compilations of some things being reduced to seconds from minutes. It spoils you and you never want to go back to potat.

Cutting snippets of paragraphs out of existing books and pasting them together into a conglomeration that vaguely resembles a novel does not make me an author. Pattern recognition and matching is not original creation.

The original source material was still human-generated. When a computer is able to imagine a totally new concept out of thin air, then I will be impressed.

Will having more troops in more cities make the Epstein files turn up faster?

I usually do it when we take over a customer’s access control system and we have half their doors on the new system and half in the old still and are migrating them over. I’m an electronic security tech, this is what I do for a living.

I use it at work to clone a customer’s proximity card when I work in their building so they don’t have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.

I guess being able to trigger the customer service announcement without having to find a button in a store is nice.