#computer of doom

[tea-with-eleni]

There is a mysterious computer in one of the planetarium offices. When I found it, it was underneath a computer desk (normal). It did not have a plug (weird). It had a monitor on the computer desk and a keyboard (normal). They could not be plugged in to the computer (weird). It turns on, and I went looking for a monitor cable that would fit because the planetarium has a big bucket of monitor cables stored behind the dome. It seems to use some variation of a VGA cable; exact species could not be determined, and a cable that was the correct gender could not be found. (weird.) The computer seems to have been custom built and has a 2TB hard drive visible. I cannot discern its purpose.

My working theories are:

It ran the previous planetarium software prior to its current system.

It has something to do with the laser shows.

It's the backup drive for... something.

It has a label that says "PREFLIGHT"; this implies it was stolen off an aircraft somehow.

It's alien technology that, based on its bizarre assortment of ports, got punted out of an alternate reality.

Open to suggestions with how to deal with the thing.

[dianenguyenwatchescartoons]

[yodaprod]

I now have 2 computers based on 486 processor and what's interesting is that they are at opposite ends of the 486 line up. On the left, a 486DX25 from 1989. The second is a 486DX4-100 from 1994, a high end version before the complete switch to Pentium. They are perfect for enjoying DOS games from the first half of the 90s before the release of Windows 95

[renif]

"Do you have any siblings, Miss Tano?" "I had a brother. His name was Anakin"

[ratsypatsy]

Hello AM, welcome to my boyfriends list, I love you as you are, but I'm giving you a body as a gift from my creativity... You'll probably hate it, but it doesn't matter 🫂

[itsstilltru]

I think AM should run for president of the United States with Ted as the vice. I’d vote for them.

Honestly I’d vote for them too

Bonus: AM got bored after an hour in office

[wisconsincomputerclub]

Doom running on a Compudyne Pentium 133 computer at LincCon over the weekend.

[pigswithwings]

EVERYONE OBJECTUM ... NOW!

[sxmplychxrry]

rainbowfish [sebpaint] sickfic but painter just has 578 computer viruses and his CPU is overheating horribly so Sebastian has to fix it all

[vinnigami]

do you think the nahobino has a usb port. can the nahobino run doom.

The answer is yes. absolutely

[ruvviks]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS YOUR OWN OC OR PAIRING.

Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[yodaprod]

Doom 1.9 DOS install (1995)

[mandatory-blog-stop-asking]

It's funny how most every cyberpunk story or setting thought that due to technology taking over people's lives and humanity, computer literacy would become commonplace enough that the very term would disappear. Everyone in Night City or whatever is super into hacking or can at least give you the difference between hardware, software, antivirus, spam, etc. To not know the basic gists or cybernetics and cyber security is paramount to not knowing how to count or how to read.

In reality we're about to enter an age where knowing how to create a folder or a zip file is back to being ancient lore inscribed in tablets that only the 30 year old who works at your IT office knows how to do. Phones and the growing marketability of easy-access no-customization technology means kids just don't use computers anymore. And it's crazy how fast it happened.

When I was in kindergarten we still had "computer class" once a week, and it was objectively useless for everyone in my class. Regardless of our age or interests, all of us had casual PC time either at home or in cyber cafes, all of us knew how to do things the teachers many times struggled with. The moment typing machine class became keyboard typing class, computers were already dominating most of our time. I learned how to navigate a computer the same way I learned English; by myself, because it was vital for my own interests.

And between highly streamlined video games, single umbrella closed OSs and everything being a fucking app, a 14 year old nowadays is lucky if they know what quotation marks do to your Google results. It's genuinely harrowing how the future is tech-dependent, yet we're becoming completely tech-illiterate.

The worst part is that it's completely on purpose by the tech industry. Much like not being able to fix your own products when they break, if you simply don't know what your phone or your computer can *do*, it's much easier to sell you a borderline identical one a little earlier than you'd actually need it. Phone updates are already pretty much semantic; you can't even see the difference between new models and old ones anymore, unless the visual difference is the point. And it all just gets more and more expensive for less and less bang for your buck.

We never expected the cyberpunk dystopia to be dull, and to rely on making us dumb. Crazy how well it worked.

[crusaderguy]

Imagine you're breaking into someone's house and then they pull out the fucking edgelord's skullmaster automatic splinter shitter 9,000.

I want this, gimme, I can be definitely be trusted with one of these and won't storm into the IRS headquarters in full military grade armor from the 41st century while on omega level steroids that make me less and less human.

[autismswagsummit]

UH OH!

6 competitors, 3 winners, 5 competitors, the Wheel of Doom angers at these circumstances. Oh, screw the fancy talk, we gotta hurry this shit up before the structural integrity of this place burns to the ground! Tomorrow at Noon CST will be our next round, but instead of our normal 1v1 format, there will be 2 3-for-all matches. Be there or be square, because this is gonna be our most intense redemption match yet!

[techturd]