#OLD TECH TESTING

[bambiraptorx]

[I.D. Digital three panel comic using Baxter Stockman from TMNT 2003 and Flora Chau from Jentry Chau vs the Underworld. The first panel shows them from behind, staring at a building currently in flames. The light from the flames reflects onto Stockman as he stands slouched forward slightly, while Flora, as a ghost, hovers in midair. Unlike Stockman, the light does not reflect on her. The second panel shows them both from the front, eyes wide in matching stressed and shocked expressions. In the last panel they make eye contact, Stockman raising his arms in a helpless shrug and Flora putting her palms together to gesture forward. Stockman says "Minor setback?" and Flora answers "Minor setback." End I.D.]

The fact that they both refer to events where a building is destroyed and people almost die as 'minor setbacks' is so funny to me lol

Also full disclosure I drew ghost Flora because she's short as heck and it worked better for putting these characters in the same frame to have her hovering, but the implications of Stockman just being able to see ghosts for some reason are also very entertaining to me

[scavengedluxury]

Electronica technology factory, Bucharest, 1976. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[verilog-official]

I was messing around a bit with self hosting LLMs on an old laptop I got with a pretty okay GPU and I decided to try out deepseek cuz I'm hearing a lot about that. I used deepseek-r1 8b, cuz I only have 2g VRAM so I wasn't expecting much, esp since I was used to using like GPT-J 6.7B models and other pre-chatgpt models

I decided to ask it the age old question of "how many R's are in the word strawberry" and surprisingly it got it right somehow... but... well, lemme just show you

To determine the number of R's in the word "strawberry," I will first think about the word's spelling. "Strawberry" is spelled S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-E-R-Y. Let me count the R's in "strawberry": S (1), T (2), R (3), A (4), W (5), B (6), E (7), R (8), R (8), R (9), Y. Wait, that's confusing. I must have miscounted somewhere. Let me try again: S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-E-R-Y. From this, I can see that "strawberry" has one R, then another R, and another R. So total R's are 3.

like yeah there's 3

but the way you spelled it all three times had 4 Rs.

idk whether to call it a success or not

[strawbnation]

rare tumblr life update 🤪 I'm starting design school this summer

[cataclysmic-entity]

i just found an amdek video 310A and idk what to do with it?? help???

if i had more money and knowledge i’d probably repair it, but i don’t… so i’m wondering if it’s just junk or if i can make money off of it…?

[thedeafprophet]

there's like a specific kind of..... i dont know if its necesarily ageism?... but thing i see when im getting medical tests done by people who dont know my full history here, where they initially seem to assume that I won't have health problems, presuembly because im young?

and then get surprised when things Go Badly during tests lmao

[molagboop]

I would very much like to infoblast about Raven Beak's powersuit upgrade library with all the optimizations, QoL tweaks, security features, and the myriad integration systems Samus is currently lacking with her babby suit, but alas. Time restrictions.

[fuck-kirk]

My cat: *breathing heavily and making skrunkly noises*

Vet: oh, did you bring her in because she has a little cold?

Me: no, she’s just like that

Vet: oh

[scavengedluxury]

Magyar TV test card, 1982. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[eskilddood]

Another screenshot from digitization, not sure why but the entire VCR's programming is in Dutch?

I can't even access the settings menu because I don't have a TV to hook the thing up to and Teletext is.... NOT compatible with a computer

[raylangivins]

so funny how ever since i got diagnosed with this blood thingy i have i've simply moved on with my life not thinking about it at all while my entire family attempts to become armchair haematologists

[i3utterflyeffect]

going insane 👍

[biggsodorcitystories]

I have a bluetooth keyboard. I'm being entirely grown-up about the whole experience.

[tumblasha]

i want to thank every god out there for reviving the battery in my ipod