20 years ago the pocketable digital cameras that took over the consumer market didn’t have hot shoes. 30 years ago the compact point and shoot viewfinders that were the weapon of choice for vacationing didn’t have hot shoes. Today neither are relevant and are all outclassed by smartphones, and there is hardly a consumer camera market.
You don’t have to spend five figures for that exposure, but it’s going to be an intentional hobby.
The intersection of people who aren’t five figures into photography and know what a hot shoe is, and people who recognize a wall mount phone trend old.
You know what, Madred, if you want me to see five lights, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don’t you just make them five lights?
Slackware is the 50 year old percolator in the break room of the DMV.
On Mint Frosting Mobile
Correct. We’ve replaced all our incandescent bulbs except for two 60w contractor bulbs in the a hallway that were installed when the house was built 18 years ago. All of the original higher wattage incandescents died within the first couple of years.
The C64 had a notoriously garbage power supply that would eventually cook the machine regardless of how clean your line power is.
Before trumpeting you’re obligated to yodel “RIIIICOLAAAAA” through a cardboard tube, much as a father must clack tongs before tending a grill.
UUCP. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
A large green pushbutton with a Molly guard labeled “OK” I found in a scrap pile behind the physics building.
Olivia channeling Bell is the series’ crowning achievement.
Oh man. Huge company I used to work for had:
two separate Okta instances. It was a coin toss as to which one you’d need for any given service
oh, and a third internally developed federated login service for other stuff
90 day expiry for all of the above passwords
two different corporate IM systems, again coin toss depending on what team you’re working with
nannyware everywhere. Open Performance Monitor and watch network activity spike anytime you move your mouse or hit a key
an internally developed secure document system used by an international division that we were instructed to never ever use. We were told by IT that it “does something to the PC at a hardware level if you install the reader and open a document” which would cause a PC to be banned from the network until we get it replaced. Sounds hyperbolic, but plausible given the rest of the mess.
required a mobile authenticator app for some of the above services, yet the company expected that us grunts use our personal devices for this purpose.
all of the above and more, yet we were encouraged to use any cloud hosted password manager of our choosing.
Nonfiction oldies that still hold up: The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.
…but pdf and epub still work. Easily the least objectionable thing Amazon has done all year. But don’t let that get in the way of your mad.
I think you meant :r!:() :;: