I’m on the last mission of the Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines on PSP

I’ve been mostly playing on the PSP during my commute to work and back. The game itself is fine and my first of the series actually, but it feels like a cheap spin-off (and it is) on a mobile console.

I remember my Sony Ericsson K800i lasting a week or so on a single charge. With modern tech the equivalent would last at least 2 or 3 times that

I remember first gen smartphones where a bit shitty compared to the more expensive versions of regular phones and blackberries of that time

The notes, alarms etc part sounds like PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) to me. My dad used them extensively in the 90s and I would argue that they are the true predecessor to the modern smartphone.

I also remember my dad having a GPS device without a map. You could input waypoints and record a route and that’s it. I searches a bit and it looks like it was Garmin GPS 45 XL (but I might need to confirm that with him - I’m sure he has it somewhere)

There were also early examples of portable mp3 players in the late 90s. I think they were mostly held back by the storage density - the best option was the ultra small HDD (like the first iPod had in 2001). I think a portable CD player was the default back then.

So all the ingredients were there in the late 90s, just not in one device.

The most fun bit of tech history I found on the internet is this mp3 car stereo from 1999, which was running Linux. It had max capacity of 28GB for the music (2 HDDs). I don’t see myself needing much more than that even now. It was quite expensive, so it didn’t sell very well.

I’ve also read that people would drive with a PC in their trunk with some head unit, so they could listen to mp3s it in the car. It would totally be me if I were the same age as now 30 years ago.

Nice

What hardware are you running?

If you have 2 different types of ammo that’s 30 bits of data in LIFO queue.

Point at an AI exec and press on the clicky thingy to read the stored data.

Fuck, even in my european country, there are many people hating on bycycles. Not even the bike lanes, just the fact of a person riding a bicycle.

Fucking awful how dividing the propaganda has gotten.

Maybe the US has a broken voting button, they would want to click “yes”, but it ends up as “no” every time.

/s

24h grocery stores where awesome during covid. I really miss going shopping at 3 at night.

Now I’m back to: hungry? maybe going to sleep will fix it

That was the best prank on the primary school library computers I could think of until I discovered .bat files that could open windows endlessly and the poor windows xp eventually crashed. I also changed the icon on the shortcut to the file, so it looked like IE.

Pretty much the same, renting a car while on vacation would be the only scenario I could think of that a credit card would be useful. And yes I live in EU

Having a credit card is even considered a liability when applying for mortgage here

I was born in 2000, so I count as gen Z, and I genuinely prefer using physical debit card to paying with a phone (except when I need to touch the keyboard on a terminal).

But I’m weird like that and I like physical things, like my wallet with a sewing kit and bottle opener. In other pocket I keep a knife and a small flashlight

And I’m not installing my government app, and especially I’m not installing some shitty gym membership app, when I can have a card in my wallet.

Idk why people at flathub decided not to allow CLI programs.

And no alisses to the names of the programs.

Two very frustrating decisions. I would get rid of snap on my system if not for those few CLI tools I need.

I’ve used .rar to backup some data to an unpowered drives, some time ago. You can reserve additional space for the checksums while compressing, so you won’t be able to recover just regular .rar files.

I had a flip phone once. I kicked it due to being angry that I don’t have a smartphone and it split in two. I was 12 maybe

Funny enough I could still recieve calls on the bottom half.

This week I nad to install Wi*dows on my old laptop so I could give it to my dad.

It turns out that for some reason microslop does not include the NVMe drivers for this platform in the installer. Never had this issue when installing Linux on it. Image my confusion when I found out this was the issue.

I now have a Bluetooth DAC, but it’s not as easy as just plugging headphones directly into the phone, and I need to remember to charge it or not to loose it (I already lost one)

The clip is designed to hold the cap quite firmly. It’s very handy, but not as good as actual headlamp

It’s an Olight Baton 3, you can look up better pictures on the internet if you want

RIP my old LG G6, really miss that headphone jack

The lack of expandable storage on my phone really hurts the audio player experience for me. I would really like to have all my music just on my phone.

And the lack of headphone jack is really annoying too. I’ve spent over 160€ on headphone DACs since I replaced my old LG G6 with Samsung S22. Before that I just had the phone, which had a really nice sound quality. Now I’ve lost some DACs and another one is starting to malfunction since I dropped it.

I’m really starting to consider an mp3 player rn.