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Topic: OT: Tech Nerd Thread

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FearlessF

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #140 on: May 09, 2025, 04:34:01 PM »
me too
splicing phone cable was a toss up, needed very good light
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #141 on: May 09, 2025, 05:49:45 PM »
I'm a lucky color non-blind kind of guy.  I used to have the resistor codes memorized but that was a long, long time ago.


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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #142 on: May 09, 2025, 06:12:57 PM »
But being color blind, I just didn't know what damn colors I was looking at!

Particularly the brown/red distinction, as red--I suffer from protanomaly--is a very dark color to me. Essentially it attenuates the red content of everything I look at. I couldn't easily distinguish it from brown, and sometimes not well from black unless it was a STARK black line. That also gets me in trouble between blue and violet, as my eyes don't properly pick up the red content in violet, so it usually just looks like another shade of blue to me.
so, you don't use orange golf balls
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #143 on: May 09, 2025, 08:22:15 PM »
A Dr told me one time, im not color blind. Just color deficient. I can see most of the colors, I just have a hard time distinguishing between certain shades. 

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #144 on: May 10, 2025, 01:03:46 AM »
so, you don't use orange golf balls
Hell no.

Any time I'm paired with someone using a red ball, I point out I'm "red-green" colorblind. As in, I could lose a red ball... on the green. 

A playing partner occasionally uses red. I've almost stepped on it in the middle of the fairway, multiple times, because I can't see it against the turf. 

Orange is slightly better, but I don't use it. I prefer yellow. 

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #145 on: May 10, 2025, 07:14:35 AM »
I've stepped on red & orange balls and kicked them - just can't see em
bright white seems best for me but still tough to see.  I have poor eye sight
can usually see them in the air, but not down.
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #146 on: May 10, 2025, 09:47:58 AM »
A few times a day, my computer screen goes black, except the bar at the bottom, for about ten seconds.  I have no idea why, it recovers and things are fine.  It's a Dell of some sort.

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« Reply #147 on: May 10, 2025, 09:51:06 AM »
A few times a day, my computer screen goes black, except the bar at the bottom, for about ten seconds.  I have no idea why, it recovers and things are fine.  It's a Dell of some sort.
If you can still see the task bar, then both the screen and the video output are fine... Sounds like a software thing. 

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« Reply #148 on: May 10, 2025, 09:52:48 AM »
If you can still see the task bar, then both the screen and the video output are fine... Sounds like a software thing.
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #149 on: May 10, 2025, 05:32:51 PM »
Dells suck
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #150 on: May 12, 2025, 10:20:46 AM »
Any time I'm paired with someone using a red ball, I point out I'm "red-green" colorblind. As in, I could lose a red ball... on the green.

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #151 on: May 12, 2025, 10:21:17 AM »
Traffic lights that are sideways might be an issue.
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #153 on: May 12, 2025, 10:28:14 AM »
I'm not really sure what the alternatives are these days, without looking it up. 

15-20 years ago I could name a handful of major laptop brands, but they've either all gone out of business, folded into something else, or I just don't see them anymore.  Literally everything I see is Dell or Macs.  Is HP still making laptops?

 

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