m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@annika Took me a while to get the joke. At first thought it had something to do with treating hangover — but it's paracetamol that you should avoid. Ibuprofen is fine.
I remember it well because I had taken paracetamol myself to treat alcohol induced headache once — despite instructing other person on Fedi just a day before to avoid it and use aspirin instead. I've had both, but I still took paracetamol by mistake — I was so frustrated that I had started swearing too 😂

@thor Yeah, bad timings sure happen, like Donnie Darko having no advertisement because original idea featured a crashing plane, but 9/11 happened or the final 2 episodes Madoka about catastrophic events being postponed because of the earthquake in Japan. One of the cell carriers in Russia had subscriber plans featuring letter "Z", but in 2022 it became VERY controversial all of a sudden, I think Samsung had problems with marketing Galaxy Z products too before they decided to pull out completely😅

@w I have one sitting on my desk right now 😁
@BasicAppleGuy

@thor
> H1n
1? 🤔
It's probably a pig and it's infected 🐷 😱

@neural_meduza А других в Москве возможно уже и не осталось 😱

@damianogerli No ads part aged extraordinarily badly 🤣

@ochaos Last year I had found an "AJAX" book from mid 2000s — about early interactive stuff that we hate the Web of today for, Google Suggest and all that, from the days when JS was very limited and you had to use hidden frames to retrieve and process data… I can't cite anything because I have already put it back to where it came from, but it was a hilarious read 😂
@damianogerli

@mcrocker It's better than Tineye for image searches at times — probably the only thing Google is good for nowadays 🤷
@damianogerli

@Rezard Don't even try Fast Courier Transform 😅

@urusan So AI is bad with just any hands 🤭

@w I have recently found an old Sony-Ericsson GPRS/EDGE PCMCIA modem in the storage room, I have an old laptop with PCMCIA slot and a SIM card with unlimited, albeit slow, data plan. Would be nice to get it working, but I'm not even sure it would be possible as some carriers don't support 2G at all nowadays — I know for a fact that you can put your SIM-card in old phone and quite literally get no service. Some carriers here still do and I hope mine would work 😁
@BasicAppleGuy

@w Exactly! Even flagship phones of today are limited to 1 Tb storage so where do we put all the data? The only usage scenario I can think of is this VR stuff — so you can receive a lot of data, process it and immediately discard it. Because even with videos 6" screens make higher resolutions kinda pointless, but with VR goggles — who knows.
@BasicAppleGuy

@w Ha-ha-ha, yeah, that's right, at the time I didn't even think watching videos would be possible, but when the first iPhone came out it wasn't considered unthinkable, it even had an app for YouTube and having only 2G connection was considered the device's shortcoming almost universally.
I still mostly prefer just text and images — pretty old-fashioned in this regard, so now I don't get the 5G hype 😂
@BasicAppleGuy

@w 3G didn't even exist at the time so no, even regular GPRS wasn't considered no service — people have been paying money to have it.
When 3G appeared I didn't get all the hype because it wasn't day or night difference and then I realized that together with base stations getting replaced with 3G ones, their uplink connection got upgraded too, so most (especially non tech-savvy people) were comparing regular GPRS to 3G, they never had the chance to try what EDGE had offered.
@BasicAppleGuy

@w EDGE was actually quite good! I remember travelling to Kyiv with friends and they've had EDGE there, in Moscow we didn't — only regular GPRS, even if some base stations supported EDGE they themselves used slow connection, so full EDGE speeds were never achieved. And I was impressed by it — I could browse Deviant Art from my laptop connected via mobile phone. I had thought that we would never need more bandwidth on mobile TBH.
@BasicAppleGuy

@BasicAppleGuy Before mobile Safari website (not some dumbed down special mobile version of it) loading at all was already an achievement 😄

@neural_meduza Э-э-э… Капитан, уже июль! 🤪

@davidak
> what do you think of people that boost their answers to other posts?
What's wrong with it? Sometimes the conversation gets more interesting than it was originally intended and you're inviting others to join it by boosting 🤷
@lain @solidsanek

@DotardTed And then she ends up married to some pigeon 🤭

@theorytoe OOP did it again! Oh, baby, baby! 🤪