Well 1, there’s a lot of classic recipes out there written for cups and tablespoons so if you want to keep cooking those you’ll need traditional measuring tools anyway and

2, Recipe calls for 1/4 teaspoon, you get the spoon that says 1/4 tsp on it and scoop once. It’s not ancient egyptian rocket surgery.

My understanding of the game (you’re talking the Windows 95 CD version of the game, right?) is it’s a special event if you go in the specific year they went.

Let me know how that turns out.

I mean you have to be older than stupid to even try out for Pope, so.

Go price out what a cylinder cost these days for a Pratt & Whitney double wasp. The Corsair has 18 of them.

You want to send people on a fun little journey, answer “How’s it goin” with “I can still walk.”

The thing is, how do we bring that about?

I’m not sure Pine64 has a goal of bringing a product to retail readiness; the PinePhone was getting there, then they released the PinePhone Pro which broke a lot of the work done…

Basically all ham radio is used for.

It was a sponsor spot unrelated to the content of the video. I watched a video on building a workbench or something, And now for a word from our sponsor: This contraption.

Once upon a time we weren’t as concerned about accuracy as we are now. Woodworkers used to use surprisingly few graduated measuring tools; you’d make a thing called a storey stick which is a small board with notches in it. That notch is the overall height of the cabinet, that one is the overall width…who cares exactly what the number is, as long as it’s always the same distance? I don’t need a desk that’s 43 7/8" wide, I need a desk that fits between those two windows.

Same happens in the kitchen; until the 1950’s the average American housewife didn’t have much in the way of measuring tools, but you could rely on her to have some teacups and some spoons, so that’s what recipes were written for. A given woman would learn from experience that her spoons were a little small so use a slightly heaping spoonful when the recipe calls for 1 teaspoon.

In the modern day a set of measuring cups and spoons are such common kitchen equipment that finding yourself without them is either one of those sweet coming of age stories filed alongside calling mom to ask how you tell when canned soup is done.

Then the Europeans show up, smug in their complete inability to handle it.

Give someone an inch, they’ll take a foot. Pretty soon you don’t have a leg to stand on.

I would also ban touch sensitive fixed controls. My father’s Avalon has dedicated controls for the HVAC but they’re touch sensitive, so you set the climate controls to 80C and full fan if you just wipe dust off the panel while the car’s on.

You should be able to train your hand on the control, get a good grip on it, and then move it in such a way that a control input is realized. It shouldn’t have to beep at you to tell you it’s done a thing.

I can turn the air conditioner in my pickup on and off by feel alone, same with the basic radio controls.

I recently picked up a Ryoba pull saw; I don’t have room in my shop for a band saw and the only real way I’ve had to resaw boards was on the table saw, which blows away 1/8" before planing, so figure at least 3/16" of board gone by the time you’ve sawn and planed, plus it’s a pretty strict limit of 6.5" of board thickness. My theory was a Ryoba has such a thin blade that it would allow more efficient use of resawn stock. But it’s not easy to do. I suppose a frame saw is in order.

It’s either that, a knockoff of that, or the thing that’s knocking off that I’m thinking of.

Edit to add, I would swear the thing I saw works on a similar principle, but was a different shape. It had a more open, diagonal frame, and I think they mentioned it being Japanese. Visually it reminded me a bit more of a Shopsmith, or a Bowflex.

I’ve only ever heard it pronounced “You-Bee-Soft” and the “yuh” sound that starts with functions as a consonant. You wouldn’t say “An youtube video.”

Ubuntu is dull, perfect for this community.

At some point you’re going to struggle to put a capable x86 machine in a device that small.

Are we talking “nations that have an official Lemmy instance” or “nations in which some private citizen or resident just happens to host a Lemmy instance?”

There was a lot of pioneering in the 70’s. The first home computers, the first video games, the first mobile phones, all right there in the late 70’s. Most people ended the 70’s living like they did in the 60’s but now there’s cool shit like the Speak n’ Spell. The average American home in 1979 had no microwave oven, a landline telephone and a TV that might have even been color. There were some nerds who had TRS-80s, some of them even had a modem so they could 300 baud each other. Normies saw none of this.

There was a lot of invention in the 80’s. Home computer systems, video games etc. as we now commonly know them crystalized in the 80’s. We emerged from the 80’s with Nintendo as the dominant video game console platform, Motorola as basically the only name in cellular telephones and with x86 PCs running Microsoft operating systems as the dominant computing platform with Apple in a distant but solid second place. Video games were common, home computers weren’t that out there, people still had land lines, and maybe cable TV or especially if you were out in the sticks you might have one of those giant satellite dishes. If you were a bit of an enthusiast you might have a modem to dial BBSes and that kind of stuff, but basically no one has an email address.

There was a lot of evolution in the 90’s. With the possible exception of the world wide web which was switched on in August of '91, there weren’t a lot of changes to how computing worked throughout the decade. Compare an IBM PS/2 from 1989 with a Compaq Presario from 1999. 3 1/4" floppy disk, CRT monitor attached via VGA, serial and parallel ports, keyboard and mouse attached via PS2 ports, Intel architecture with Microsoft operating system…it’s the same machine 10 years later. The newer machine runs orders of magnitude faster, has orders of magnitude more RAM etc. but it still broadly speaking fills the same role in the user’s life. An N64 is exactly what you’d expect the NES to look like after a decade. Cell phones have gotten sleeker and more available but it’s still mostly a telephone that places telephone calls, it’s the same machine Michael Douglas had in that one movie but now no longer a 2 pound brick. Bring a tech savvy teen from 1989 to 1999 and it won’t take long to explain everything to him. The World Wide Web exists now, but a lot of retailers haven’t embraced the online marketplace, the dotcom bubble bursts, it’s not quite got the permanent grip on life yet.

There was a lot of revolution in the 2000’s. Higher speed internet that allow for audio and video streaming, mp3 players and the upheaval those caused, the proliferation of digital cameras, the rise of social media. When I graduated high school in 2005, there were no iPhones, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Youtube. Google was a search engine that was gaining ground against Yahoo. The world was a vastly different place by the time I was through college. Take that savvy teen from 1989 and his counterpart from 1999 and explain to them how things work in 2009. It’ll take a lot longer. In 2009 we had a lot of technology that had a lot of potential, and we were just starting to realize that potential. It was easy to see a bright future.

There was a lot of stagnation in the 2010’s. We started the decade with smart phones and social media, and we ended the decade with smart phones and social media. Performance numbers for machines kept going up but you kinda don’t notice; you buy a new phone and it’s so much faster and more responsive, 4 years later it barely loads web pages and takes forever to launch an app because mobile apps are gaseous, they expand to take up their system. A lot of handset manufacturers have given up so now there are fewer options, and they’ve converged to basically one form factor. Distinguishing features are gone, things we used to be able to do aren’t there anymore. The excitement wore off, this is how we do things now, and now everyone is here. Mobile app stores are full of phishing software, you’re probably better advised to just use the mobile browser if you can, mainstream video gaming is now just skinner boxes, and by the end of the decade social media is all about propaganda silos and/or attention draining engagement slop.

Now we arrive in the 2020’s where we find a lot of sinisterization. A lot of the tech world is becoming blatantly, nakedly evil. In truth this began in the 2010’s, it’s older than 4 years, but we’re days away from the halfway point of the decade and it’s becoming difficult to see the behavior of tech and media companies as driven only by greed, some of this can only come from a deep seated hatred of your fellow man. People have latched onto the term “enshittification” because it’s got the word shit in it and that’s hilarious, but…I see a spectrum with the stagnation of the teens represented with a green color and the sinisterization of the 20’s represented with red, and the part in the middle where red and green make brown is enshittification.