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PenguinToot

@PenguinToot@twit.social

Electronics hobbyist since high school, cameras since 1972, computers since 1978, smartphones since 2008. Can never get enough. (Also loves penguins).

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christianselig, to random
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Me every time I change my tires: okay next time I’m definitely just paying someone to do that

Next winter: … but I could save $50

PenguinToot,
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@christianselig When I was young did many things on my cars & lawn that I eventually stopped as I grew older. Was particularly affected by living in Switzerland 5 years where everyone worked hard at their jobs & hired others who worked hard at their jobs to get things done. Realized doing that was much more rewarding than being proud of fixing a car 🙂

glennf, to random
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The secret of the Bushmiller Society is out.

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Love Nancy, have been reading it since Father brought Miami newspapers home every day when I was growing up in Florida. Also enjoy the early Fritzi Ritz cartoons on Mastodon when Nancy was her little-seen niece, the early romantic situations she gets into are very charming. Bushmiller clearly enjoyed drawing beautiful young women & Fritzi & her friends were perfect examples 🙂

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Love it, very impressive. Wife LOL’ed at the Nancy suit 🙂

refactoredd, to random
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Horrific https://mastodon.social/@niclake/112496938801436276

PenguinToot,
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@refactoredd @niclake Many people have done that, the survivors said they realized on the way down it was a bad idea. I guess the AI missed that part 🙁

killyourfm, (edited ) to linux
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In the entire history of computing, there has never been a more important time to teach people about #Linux than right now.

(And never a worse time for me not to be doing @Linux4Everyone -- so I hope my fellow YouTube and content creators will double down and show people the light!)

#Windows #Recall #Privacy

PenguinToot,
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@killyourfm @Linux4Everyone @kevinctofel All the teaching in the world can’t make the average person understand Linux. If you don’t want Recall come to macOS, there’s a store nearby where they’ll answer all your questions 🙂

tvaziri, to random
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Harold Faltermeyer

1984: writes the score for "Beverly Hills Cop"
1985: writes the score for "Fletch"
1986: writes the score for "Top Gun"

absolutely epic

PenguinToot,
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@tvaziri Saw “Beverly Hills Cop” when lived in Switzerland, luckily in English with German subtitles. All our Swiss friends wanted to know if US police actually hid on highways to catch speeders. We said yes they do 🙂

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@glennf @tvaziri Ha, they did carefully line up a kilometer before a merge so they could merge politely. I’m afraid we drove up the closed lane (perfectly legal) until we reached the merge. Speeding was another thing entirely, we tried not to speed because we didn’t want any tickets on our foreigner’s record, but of course everyone passed us. At least in Europe the right lane is exclusively for slower drivers, stay out of the left lane & you’re ok.

harrymccracken, to random
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TRS-80 Model III imagery spotted at Microsoft Build. Or at least it’s very nearly a Model III.

PenguinToot,
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@harrymccracken I had a Model I & that’s certainly a Model III 🙂

glennf, to random
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Saw a clip of the Agatha series actors bragging that the show has very little CG. The magic was all…practical. Who cares? What is this obsession? CG is only an issue for the director and creative people on the movie and accountants, and if it distracts by looking unreal while watching a TV show or movie. An unhealthy focus that feels anti-VFX worker, when there’s so much VFX in media that nobody realizes. This series captures the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo&t=937s

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@glennf The miracle of CG that gave us accurate recreations of real history like Pearl Harbor & the Doolittle Raid & of fake history like LOTR is astonishing to old people like me who had to pretend along with the filmmakers that what we were seeing before CG was real. While it can be overused like the Star Wars Episide 4 additions, it is in general a great improvement to movie watching 🙂

glennf, to random
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Just learned that Albrecht Dürer died at my age and I have got to get my act in gear.

PenguinToot,
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@glennf You young people should worry? I’m ancient & so thankful when I complete a photo event in my huge project to digitize my thousands of film photos, then realize I’ll never live long enough to do them all 🙁

sjvn, to random
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The Osborne 1 was my first "portable" computer. If I'd tried swinging it like this, my arm would have come off in five minutes. It weighed almost 25 pounds.

PenguinToot,
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@sjvn I took an IBM Portable PC with me when I moved to Switzerland. Think it weighed 35 pounds even with just 2 5-1/4” floppy drives. Luckily we were young so could easily lift it into the overhead bin & carry it carefully to our rented house when we arrived. Sold it for 1/2 price when we returned to US 5 years later, this time with a real portable Toshiba with plasma screen & 40MB hard drive 🙂

stroughtonsmith, to random
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One last hurrah before being Old Yeller'd at WWDC? 😅
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112372427606839766

PenguinToot,
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@stroughtonsmith @macrumors Wait, how does a European know about Old Yeller? 🙂

glennf, to random
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About to enter Columbia University. Not for protesting: I’m coincidentally here for research and they have arrangements to let people with appointments in.

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Good luck. Sorry it’s still so cold in the NYC area though it’s almost May, we had a mild winter but a frigid spring 🙁

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Remember the same at Columbia in 1968 during Vietnam War (went to nearby college so saw it up close). It was new and exciting and involving for my friends and I, with music and music performances being a large part of it.

glennf, to random
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Two empty seats on this entire plane and one a middle next to me. (I’m in a window exit seat but two of the four exit row middles are taken, just not mine!)

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Great. Best experience like that was 16-hour flight to Australia, wife & I in window & middle seats, aisle seat still empty when doors closed 🙂

glennf, to random
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We are victorious!!!
https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/112307202619548777

PenguinToot,
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@glennf @bbcmicrobot Wrote assembly language programs for Z-80 based microcomputers in 1970’s, felt like I was living in the future. Later did same for IBM PC’s 8088. Finally got to write some 6502 assembly language programs in 1980’s, all seemed the same to me. Just was happy when the programs worked 🙂

glennf, to random
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I think I’ve figured out the Budget tolling options for renting. For $26/day (not sure if every day of rental or not still!) plus tax you get 100% of tolls covered. For $6/day only on days used with the tolling systems that use license plates, you can pay the actual no-transponder fee. I guess if you’re going the corporate route the all-in, paid-in-advance option is best? I will have to pay a cash toll on the NJ Turnpike.

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Which luckily still takes cash, but probably not for long. Congestion pricing coming to NYC by license plate, how will rental companies deal with that? Daughter & husband rent cars often in NYC, will cost money to drive it off the lot 🙁

glennf, to random
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Another step on the path to robot-flown planes.

Alaska Airlines: “It's time to check in for your flight. Mobile check-in is required! You can no longer check in or print a boarding pass at the airport.*”

*People can actually get a paper pass at the airport by waiting in line

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Old people are doomed of course. But there has to be a helper for them. Amazing how much the iPhone changed society in less than 20 years.

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Just saw a thread of someone denied medical help because he had a Linux phone that won’t run the doctor’s app. Won’t be able to fly with same limitation 🙁

glennf, to random
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I talk about … COBOL??? … on APR’s Marketplace Tech today: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-65-year-old-computer-system-at-the-heart-of-american-business/

(Ironically, given COBOL was involved, it sat on the shelf for a few months, as it’s timeless.)

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Programmed in COBOL in 1960’s, good attempt at making a readable programming language in contrast to FORTRAN’s unreadable formulas. Hope it works, there’s a lot of COBOL programs that need to be read and rewritten 🙁

glennf, to random
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Feels understaffed at the NYT

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Finally. Went to top before it closed (daughter works nearby), beautiful view but architect refused to ruin the design with suicide prevention nets. Finally will reopen with that protection 🙂

glennf, to random
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I was unaware that some people pronounced Nike like nyk without the E sound at the end. Like some people say Porsche without the E.

PenguinToot,
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@glennf Learned German when lived in Switzerland 5 years, saw how every letter is used. But when friend bought a 1969 Porsche 911 (in 1969) we all pronounced it without the “e” like it was a French word 🙂

daringfireball, to random
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Apple’s New iPhone Ad: ‘Don’t Let Me Go’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/09/dont-let-me-go-commercial

PenguinToot,
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@daringfireball Yes, let’s make the biggest WWDC announcement an increase in the default iCloud storage to 50GB 🙂

glennf, to random
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Behold these two contrasting superbly written stories

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-icon-of-seas/677838/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/les-grands-buffets-and-the-art-of-all-you-can-eat

PenguinToot,
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@glennf My daughter went on the same first cruise of the gigantic “Icon of the Seas” and wrote a great article for her website. We took her many places but never on a cruise, so it was unique enough to be enjoyable.

vwbusguy, to random
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BSD and the internet were state sponsored software.

PenguinToot,
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@vwbusguy @sjvn Indeed, worked for both organizations that sponsored them. Was software engineer for DoD in 1970’s using ARPANET to communicate with colleges in CA, then did software engineering with Bell Labs in 1980’s working with Unix & C. In both cases we could have never imagined the future of any of these technologies.

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