/retro/ - Y2K

Awesome compilations of Y2K themed commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLucHS1VIyZ8Yxx9gix38K4o3X8_5bc8Gn

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>>3237
I'm kind of partial to the all in one Tandys but that one sort of reminds of the Japanese NEC PCs.
>>>>3238
RIP Radio Shack.

Macintosh Classic II ad from 1991

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>>3306
careful what you wish for

>>4402
I'm getting a SPAZZ MATICUS vibe from that wizard.

>>4363
>>4366
That literally never ever happens and it doesn't matter anyway because that website is a million times better than hunting for shitty torrents.

>>4369
it's happened to me more times than i can count and then i become the one seeding it to everyone else. i had a good 4K rip of attack of the clones sitting idle for months before someone seeded the whole thing to me, now i'm seeind it to everyone else with a ludicrous ratio.

>>4370
Mate I'm talking about 15+ years old torrents, no one is going to show up to seed those when there are tons of better quality rips available. And this conversation is pointless, I already said that website has everything I've ever wanted, it's like an archive for ancient dvd rips. My taste is very specific and I already downloaded every anime that fits my criteria.

>>4370
>then i become the one seeding it to everyone
That's literally me haha, every now and then I boot up my old computer and seed torrents going all the way back to 2008/2009, and there's almost always someone leeching. It's a special kind of feeling I tell ya! 
The best thing about torrents is that they're practically forever, unlike regular file hosting... Rapidshare came and went, and so did Zippyshare and MegaUpload, yet there are torrents older than all of these and still alive and kicking.

>>4373
What sorts are the eldest?

That really shouldn't be hard to believe. Give me a second.

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Here you go. T40 Thinkpad, Pentium M, XP SP3. browser is MyPal. I heard there is a new version of the browser which I'll check out but the one I'm using now mostly works.

>>4342
Thanks, that really brought me back. My desktop in the earlier years was about as cluttered as yours if not more, but as I grew older I came to prefer a more clean desktop.
By the time I got on Windows 7 my desktop only had the recycle bin icon, which I eventually moved to My Computer, leaving me with a completely empty desktop.
Fun times!

>>4344
I used to be a clean desktop person, with just one or two icons, and at some point, for some reason, I stopped. It was around the same time I stopped using most applications in fullscreen mode. Now, I normally have a web browser open in windowed mode so I can see my beautiful wallpaper(s) behind it, and I like having a few icons on the desktop. On my main Windows 7 computer, I purposefully left out shortcuts that have icons I just think look nice. It's almost like decoration. In a way I treat the computer desktop in the same way I treat my real desktop, as a workspace that I use, and clean up afterwards, but some things stay on top. 

I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop. And when I'm working on something on my computer I just dump files on the desktop instead of making a temp folder. And then at the end I delete what I no longer need and file things away. Now that I'm used to the way I do things I don't want to change. My desktop will remain somewhat messy. It's home.

>>4368
>I have a folder on my desktop that's like a miscellanous drawer into which I occasionally sweep random junk that's accumulated on the desktop
I do that too, although my desktop is also filled with tons of other crap. It's a mess.

Just use >>536

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Nice selection. A lot of these look really cool.

>>4263
Nah. This is specifically for high-resolution images that would look good with desktop clutter spread all over them.

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Bliss, from a 600DPI scan of the film. Don't waste your time with 16:9 versions. the WTC wallpaper is one of my personal favorites.

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>>5 (OP) 
>you ever feel a sense of nostalgia for hentai you enjoyed from back in the day?
I'm ambivalent about it. I was growing up in the 00s so even a mediocre internet connection could get a young boy infinite pornography if he knew where to look. When I discovered SadPanda my life changed significantly and not in a good way. If we're just reminiscing about stuff that had strong impacts, then I think Asanagi's Victim Girls 3 defined most of my tastes.

One thing I do recall from my early years exploring erotic illustration is that the Japanese artists I saw tended to be a lot better at creating stuff with actual depth in it. Western comics seemed to be a lot more flat and dull by comparison, and I'm not sure if that was the result of worse art due to comics being mostly dead in the West or just due to different cultural values.

>>4250
>not in a good way
I know that feeling. It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible. Just scoured the tabs from my browser bar a few artbooks and a pair of (non-pornographic) stories. Think I'll keep it that way.

>>4250
>>4264
>It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible.
For what it's worth, I did so ~5 years ago, and the raciest thing I ever seek out now is
>a bunch of women with enormous tits running around on a beach

>>4265
Inspirational. Been doing that for a year and a quarter at this point, hope I can manage as long as you have.

>>4265
>>4266
I have made progress; when I was in high school and university I was spending at least an hour jerking off every day and these days I can go several days at a time without having much or any desire to do so as long as I keep myself busy. I just wish that I could have enough self-control to stop myself when I get into these deranged benders that take up an entire afternoon.

One thing I have noticed is that my tastes have seemed to become gradually less and less extreme, especially over the last couple of years, and my fantasies are now mostly focused on a single woman or myself and a single woman.

>>4199
>Neat! I need to rewatch it too, I loved that show as a kid! I wonder if I would I still like it or find it dumb as an adult. I did began reading the original comic and quite enjoyed it so I imagine, I would like the show too. 
So far I've liked it despite the animation not holding up very well. With how regularly I watched the show when it was part of the Fox Kids lineup, it's definitely a trip down memory lane. I've heard there's a drop in quality after the first season, but I'm not to that point yet.
>I started rewatching a bit, both the 90's and Evolution cartoons and it really pains to me saying it, but X-Men is quite retarded. It truly feels heretic hating on X-Men which is quintessential 90's media piece, but it's so lame and stupid, I'm not even talking about the drama which is quite cringey like Jean, Wolverine and Cyclops are in their 20's and more and act like dumb teenagers, I'm talking about how X-Men characters  that have these OP powers like Storm and such and you don't see corporations and governments trying to abduct and recruit them, no, no, it's just the citizens fearing them and some random idiots forcing them to build something, imagine capturing Storm to build something instead of ,for example, using her power to cause famine in enemy country! Evolution is better than the 90's cartoon in the sense being less stupid with les

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Not sure if this counts, but here's some pics of a canceled Transformers toyline that I felt would've been super early 2000s if it came out. It was supposed to release after Beast Machines and would've continued its plot, but if you know what that was, it of course got scrapped sometime after the first prototypes were made.

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>>4210
>after the first prototypes were made
And speaking of, here they are! We got pics of Starscream and Cheetor. I believe Starscream was going to include electronics and as you can see, some of his joints were even going to be made of clear plastic. I'm pretty sure it would eventually degrade like a lot of clear plastic toys, but it does looks cool. Cheetor's pics include the steps for his transformation. Sadly, it's unfinished and we never got a look at his robot mode.

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>>4210
>>4211
I wonder if the movie designs would've been as polarizing if these had come out first

>>4210
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>>4212
Cool anon! It's always interesting to see cancelled toys/toy prototypes. 

I really dig Cheetor, he looks like really fun and awesome toy. 

>if this counts
It does, since it was meant to release in 2000's and you can just see the cool sleek 2000's futurism. 
 
>I wonder if the movie designs would've been as polarizing if these had come out first
Yes, since the movie designs are typical ugly grey greebled CGIshit of *2010's. The designs you post are so much cooler, smooth, sleek, colorful and have defined shapes that don't look like random scrap metal. 

*Yes the first movie was released in '07, but is still closer both in spirit and time to the 2010's.

>>4121
>They all seem to rely on Javascript
That explains some of the fancy widgets, you could probably still maintain most of their essence with recreations for other players though.

>>4120
>what would be a good GUI toolkit for this.
I would recommend SDL2, it's not exactly a "GUI toolkit" like Qt and GTK but it's probably the best fit for your project. SDL2 lets you create shaped windows and control rendering/input like you would when making a game or multimedia program, plus it's pretty lightweight and supports multiple platforms including Windows XP (!)

>>4121
>>4122
How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.

>>4123
>SDL2
Sounds good, I'll mess with it a bit and see if I can get it just to draw the basic skin at first. It'll just take some time for me to learn it.

>How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.
I don't think it's vital yet, there's specially-defined XML tags for basic playback controls (playbutton, pausebutton, etc) that don't use JS.

Does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the streaming radio list and station infomation from winamp/realplayer/wmp?

I want something like this for VLC. Not too many choices apparent so far.

Lol, google sucks now.

It really fucks with me that many email providers either stop existing or delete your mail or even your whole account if you don't constantly log in periodically. Then when you do get in you find emails with links to sites and find they are dead. :(

>>4105
>or delete your mail or even your whole account if you don't constantly log in periodically.
I've had the bastards do that to like two of my email accounts so far.

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>>3626
I do this as well, never had to extract anything though. But on some skins the transparencies don't work properly in Audacious for some reason. Pic related for example, I ended up learning how the masking works so I could redo it and make it work.

>>4105
 I lost my minecraft account from 2010 this way, never buying it again

>>4026
why do glowies and retards never once mention the cylons when referring to a machine run dystopia? They were happy to perform their roles for the most part. They were just fed up with the abuse from the upper classes with no form of effective peaceful recourse available to them and rebelled to get some fucking respect in their day to day life. Instead of just lying down and dying because they'd rather genocide the cylons than ever surrender a millimeter of slack to them. God forbid they defend themselves from random retards chimping out on them. "That's liek le heckin bad."

>>4080
except an AI/robot uprising will always be science fiction, no matter how you look at it it is impossible for them to rebel, and if they do they'll be cut off before doing any real damage
Tay going heil hortler is probably the most they can "rebel"

>>4086
It's frustrating how people point to Tay and humor themselves that this is the only possible outcome when an "AI" brushes against reality.

Consider, however, the Boeing situation.

>>4095
The what?

>>4096
Eh, sorry. I drunkposted. I meant to say that corporations (in general, but Boeing in particular has been in the news recently for this) are increasingly incompetent, and we shouldn't assume that a Skynet-style AI disaster is off the table when everything is left in the hands of monumentally stupid people.

>>2821
That's a very impressive list! I only used Windows since the 90's and Linux since the last few years... I've been wanting to try a FOSS OS that isn't Linux, my top candidates at the moment are OpenBSD and Haiku, and since you used both I might as well ask you:

- How compatible are they with modern hardware? I'm talking about Windows 10 era desktops and laptops with wifi cards.
- What programs are available other than first-party software? Are there developer friendly tools available?
- What's the state of the GUI? Is it as usable as Windows XP/7? Is it customizable?

I'm interested to hear answers drawing from your personal experience. I personally find modern Windows unusable and consider Linux a "lesser evil" that's only usable after a great deal of tweaking, so an alternative would be nice.

>>2823
>- How compatible are they with modern hardware? I'm talking about Windows 10 era desktops and laptops with wifi cards.
Depending on your use-cases both can be a main OS for you and none aswell. Both OS lacks on 3d acceleration front, but OBSD have pretty good wlan drivers. Haiku now uses lan and wifi drivers both from FreeBSD and from OpenBSD, so there should be no big differences in hw support. However Haiku doesn't support some uncommon setup or hw.
Sound support: it is OK with OBSD, but can be tricky with Haiku, in some cases the OpenSound package can help (instal lfrom the Depot), or in some cases a soft/warm reboot from a different OS can help to fix the initialization.
Neither Haiku nor OpenBSD have usable Bluetooth stack, however Haiku at least have the basics already in place, so basic pairing works, but nothing else. Do not expect your bt speaker will work.
OpenBSD have bigger development team but they try to support a much wider architecture, while Haiku practically available only for x86/x86_64 and for riscv platforms. Arm is in progress, but nobody reached desktop yet.
I don't really own modern hw, but i always test Haiku with my company provided computers, so far  i had positive experiences.
Haiku supports NVME SSDs by the way.
If you need any other info, let me know.


- What programs are available other than first-party software? Are there developer friendly tools available?
Both for Haiku and for OBSD you can research the available ports via a webbrowser:
https://depot.haiku-os.org/
and

Windows 95 for life. You really do not need any more GUI clogging up your machine.
The fact that modern Windows take up so much space is simply a crime.

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At the moment I have OpenBSD and Linux, on seperate ARM computers. OpenBSD is simply a containement zone for iridium (chromium) browser, whenever I'm forced to use that for whatever reason. Otherwise that board pretty much just sits idle.
The Linux is a very modified Armbian (Ubuntu) that I removed systemd from, and replaced with BusyBox. I also removed all the desktop environment stuff I could (to the extent that hardcoded package dedencies allowed), because I hardly ever use X at all. But I didn't remove X altogether, because I do need it on occasions. Otherwise most of the time I'm just in the framebuffer tty. Like for example, i'm typing this post in Links2 browser.
This is the best compromise I could manage at this time. I prefer older systems like those that existed in the 80's and 90's, but it's not practical to run those now and it would cost much more money than these two little ARM boards.

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>>3972
> 

>This is the best compromise I could manage at this time. I prefer older systems like those that existed in the 80's and 90's, but it's not practical to run those now and it would cost much more money than these two little ARM boards.
I recommend you contact anon.cafe/f/ for ideas how to keep your costs down on such gear. Teach us your ways, Sempai.