• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Maybe useful for field work, but I can’t justify the office equivalent of a grillwalker for anything else.

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    1 month ago

    Did you know that STRAP ON spelled backwards is NO PARTS?

    Yeah that joke comes from a slightly different angle, but I think it still loosely fits here as well LOL!

  • I wish I remembered the actual product name but I recall there being, and people making fun of, this gnarly LAN party backpack that allowed you to carry your PC, a power supply and a fucking CRT monitor around on a rigid frame backpack to bring your entire setup with you everywhere.

    One of the image macros floating around back then was of that thing with a rig attached so you could have your mouse and keyboard in front of you and the monitor held ahead of you from over the top allowing you to walk around playing Doom. 🤣

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      1 month ago

      When the hell is season 2 of that going to arrive? I know a few months ago they confirmed it was in production, so hopefully soon! Such a great show, Nathan Fielder is the king of dead pan comedy.

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      That game was amazing. Although I didn’t realize that there was a Dreamcast version or that the Dreamcast had a keyboard.

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        1 month ago

        I definitely had a keyboard for my Dreamcast. It was my first internet enabled console, as well as my first exposure to online gaming with strangers (previously I had only done direct TCP/IP connections with friends on games like Diablo 1 and Starcraft). Phantasy Star Online was so damn addictive.

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          There were two (firmware?) releases of the Dreamcast keyboard. The first release would allow TWO KEYBOARDS to be used with the game. The later release keyboard would only allow a single keyboard to be active at a time. It was a lot of fun yelling at your teammate to type faster, which of course made both players more flustered and do poorly.

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      1 month ago

      I learned how to type with this, at the age of 22 as a full time software engineer! I never knew how to touch type, but then I somehow landed a software engineering job. I figured I needed to learn, so I downloaded this and played it so much. Good times.

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    I can think of exactly one person I’ve ever met that would use this. It was a dude in college who would walk across campus back to his dorm holding an open laptop in one arm and occasionally using the other hand to interact with it.

    This was when you needed a PCMCIA card to have WiFi on your laptop, so it was probably new and exciting to have that mobility.

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    I had a job that bought me one of these about 15 years ago, never used it