FireWire400

Who the fuck is J.D. Vance?

It’s an outdated interface connection standard commonly used by camcorders in the 1990’s (mostly MiniDV camcorders I think); its technical name (or name of its specification rather) is IEEE1394, ‘FireWire’ is just the marketing term Apple used for it. I think Sony called it ‘i.Link’.

FireWire400 is really called IEEE1934a and has a theoretical transfer rate of 400 Mb/s, it can deliver 7 watts of power and carry ethernet packets.

The standard pretty much died off as soon as USB 3.0 came out AFAIK, since they couldn’t get higher transfer speeds than a theoretical 800 Mb/s (whereas USB3 supports up to 5 Gb/s).

My profile picture shows a FireWire400 port on the front panel of a PowerMac G5.

Things like Haiku (or BeOS), ReactOS, ArcaOS, AmigaOS etc.

I don’t think they do but maybe they’re also counting type 1 hypervisors.

Edit: Nevermind, I thought they bundled in “Other” into that category; they didn’t, as evident by the chart below the stats which includes “Other”.

It’s probably just the case of they couldn’t determine the OS being used.

I honestly don’t know how to think about this. On one hand, it’s pretty cool that more and more users are giving the finger to Microsoft and switch to Linux.

On the other hand, Linux systems are gonna become a bigger target for cyberattacks or malware. I realise that I, as a regular person who isn’t on dodgy porn sites all day, probably have nothing to fear but still, I like my Linux lightweight and if they have to slap some antivirus on there… eh idk

Who here uses the vendor supplied software with their mouse?

In my experience it’s almost entirely useless, except for remapping buttons maybe.

First of all, this happened a few years prior, when I was 7 or so, and I was in elementary school so don’t laugh at me too much. I got a CD-R my dad made with 500 classic and prog rock tracks (aptly named “Arrow 500”… why do I remember this stuff?) and on it - along with Eagles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Doors and other bands that have the prefix “the” - were a few tracks by Wishbone Ash.

Well, I thought the track “The King Will Come” as well as seemingly the whole band was about Pokémon, purely based off the word “Ash”. I couldn’t really understand English at the time so I must’ve just assumed that every time someone used that word they were referring to the protagonist of the Pokémon TV show (which I watched religiously at the time I might add).

Nevermind the Album being 24 years older than the entire Pokémon franchise.

Wishbone Ash - Argus

I have an incredibly awkward story to tell concerning my first experience with one particular track on that album…

Probably an award anyone can win by spending enough money for it

After enjoying Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged album so much I listened to Alice in Chains’ (MTV) Unplugged album and while it’s not as good as Nirvana’s, it’s still pretty great

Early YouTube was the best

But if I don’t get one, how do they know if I’m hetero or just asexual?

How do you prove your sexuality to others?