Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

[FGD135]

Everything you always wanted to know about christmas lights but were afraid to ask:

Tru-Tone C9 LED Christmas lights - an overview

LED Christmas lights which don't hurt the eyes: it finally happened!

LED Christmas lights still annoy me. Let's try some more fixes.

Once again I attempt to add polish to LED holiday lights

Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?

LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie

LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish

I painted light bulbs and put them outside. Here's what happened.

The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting

[FGD135]

Traceroute is real – I should know, I was there with MPLS

[IronEdithKidd]

My grandma had those bubble lights! They were neat!

[womanhood_deferred]

I still go on the computer. I’ll never give up my keyboard and multiple monitors.

[Crashproof]

I have to admit, sometimes I sit down in my big chair in front of my desktop with its dual widescreen LCDs and browse stuff on my phone.

[womanhood_deferred]

I don’t browse stuff on my phone, but I do message people with it even though I could just open a tab.

I do browse stuff on the tablet that sits on the end table next to my bed.

I surprisingly listen to a lot of music through my computer speakers.

[DaakSyde]

Me too, except the multiple monitors part. I did that for a few years and thought I’d never go back, but then I upgraded my graphics card and didn’t have an adapter for the older monitor, so I just went back to one and got used to that again. Now, however, work just bought me a new 34" ultrawide monitor, and I’m loving it.

Also I just finally bought myself a real desk. Wanted one for years but couldn’t decide what I wanted, so I made do with a folding table. But with the possibility of impending tariffs, I just decided to finally go ahead and get one.

[ficuswhisperer]

That “computer furniture” sure brings back some memories. Mostly bad . Did any of that stuff ever really last? It seemed like it was all low quality pressboard that would crumble the moment you tried to move it.

@DaakSyde

Now, however, work just bought me a new 34" ultrawide monitor, and I’m loving it.

This for sure. I’m very space constrained at home, and for a long time my desk was dominated by two 21” monitors that I borrowed from work after we were all sent home when COVID started blowing up. It was simply ridiculous. I replaced those two 21” monitors with a single 34” ultrawide that was on sale for cheap from Costco. It’s obviously not as big overall, but it’s big enough, and saves so much precious desk space.

(Not the best monitor, but a truly great one would have cost at least twice as much, but not have been twice as good. Since I don’t work from home much anymore I decided it wasn’t worth it.)

[1000YearBan]

I bought an ultra wide LG monitor and it was great until a cat jumped up on my desk, flipping a ballpoint pen against the screen and destroying it.

Back to the ancient MBP with dead pixels