What I really want out of Google Maps is a way to ask about particular alternate routes. I know it will suggest alternates if it thinks those will save time. But I want to be able to ask it “Should I take the Whitestone or the Throgs Neck”, evaluate both routes, and tell me which one is better (and by how much). It already knows where I am going after all.

Bonus points if I can teach it what I prefer. So, I want to be able to tell it how much I hate the Cross Bronx, and that it’s OK to send me on a different route if it’s 15 minutes longer, if it means I am not stuck on that.

I play NetHack regularly, but maybe that doesn’t count because it’s under active development again so the most recent stable drop is from last year.

It just means you need to figure out how to route between them, that’s all.

This looks awesome.

Oh, they just left you some extra patch cables? That was nice of them.

The wavelength of the fiber might be printed on it. I know some fibers are color-coded based on their wavelength, but I don’t know if it’s universal.

You’ll need to match the modules to the fiber.

There definitely are optics available for single mode. The problem is that the wavelength will need to match what you are being sent from your provider. So we can’t really answer your question, you will have to ask them.

1310nm is quite common but we can’t assume your link is 1310nm.

You might want to contact a Mac Users Group. SVMUG still looks active: https://svmug.org/

Good Bot.

How many are bots

They’re still a thing, kind of. TV Antennas are still inherently wired this way, and need the part in the picture (a balun) to convert the signal from the “balanced” 300 ohm twin antenna wire to “unbalanced” 75 Ohm coax cable.

Most TVs used to have the twin screw connections to hook directly to a roof antenna. But at some point (I’m guessing the 90s), more people got their TV directly from cable providers, delivered over Coax, so it made more sense for manufacturers to provide a direct coax input for the antenna.

So now, if you do have a roof antenna it probably has the balun integrated right into it, so you can take the coax (hopefully through some lightning protection) directly inside.

Where can you get that awesome keyboard? Forget the fact that Beepy went dark, I’d love to build my own so I have a dedicated pocket serial terminal, that would come in so, so handy!

Personally, I would prefer the N64 to the SNES. I think I could still spend months just playing Goldeneye and that Star Wars game.

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I got excited, but then realized this probably wasn’t a community about how awesome Weird Al is.

Don’t Blink

In fairness, if you still had a Pitfall cart, it looks like it will work, given you blow on the card edge hard enough first

No Pitfall? What’s the point, then?

That logo is trippy

It’s because when you first buy the thing, you don’t want to get rid of the box right away, in case you need to RMA it. So it gets put in the pile along with the rest of the boxes. Then you’re in the same place for years and the pile gets bigger.

I do a decent job with culling the boxes, and even toss obsolete tech now and then, but I have been hoarding hard drives for 30 years. It seems more trouble to securely dispose of them than to just let them pile up. I even still have IDE drives and am not quite sure whether I have an adaptor that can read them. But I can’t throw them out, because I don’t know if I have sensitive info on them.

Can you rent a degausser?

This is one of my least favorite Rush songs…