This was a real phone that you could buy from (I believe) the national carrier in the late 80s / early 90s.

I didn’t know anyone with one myself but I do recall seeing them for sale and I’m pretty sure it was in the telephone book that I saw it (that was how you chose your phone in those days for most people).

We just had a shite beige one with the same receiver and buttons but it did do the beep boop instead of the tok tok tok which was great. Old people will understand.

I will never understand how they became so massive.

Oh that’s a good one. It feels like it should be doable and then… BAM

I’m not sure I fully understand your requirement so this may not be what you’re looking for but CTRL+k brings you straight to search and puts the cursor in the URL bar. The engine is to the left and can be selected.

I… Never knew this option existed. That is such an amazing feature.

Never once have I ever answered a withheld number and been glad after that I did.

Oh jeez. Fuck that salesman. :( That’s an awful thing to do to a kid. Money comes so hard at that age.

I had a self build and a decent CRT at the time so scaling wasn’t an issue but I remember how horrible it was in those days on LCDs. It actually put me off moving from the CRT for a long time.

I definitely overclocked that card and it was really good for that even on the stock cooler but I do vaguely remember it struggling with HL2. I can’t remember what CPU I had so that could have been the bottleneck.

ATI 9800 pro held a special place in my heart. If I remember correctly it’s what I played half life 2 on.

I woke up in my mother’s arms.

I’d say some of that drop was punters like me who were already gaming on Linux and have just moved over to the deck now.

I have a dock for mine and it’s really the only thing I use for gaming now as my laptop is very old.

If it doesn’t work out or you find yourself tight on space in the future you can always recompress to mp3 or ogg and take the quality hit at that point.

You could compress the wav to flac without losing anything. It’ll still be a lot larger that the MP3 though.

Maybe give it a whirl with a few and see how it works out.

Well I’m sick in bed and that was time well spent. Thanks!

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Agreed. It’s such a great learning process. I ultimately gave up on Gentoo but learned a lot by using it for about 2 years way back in around 2005.

Linux From Scratch brings a huge leap in understanding too.

That’s a really great read. Thanks for posting.