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are you after a MDD G4, Uk?
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on YouTube:

Hear, hear!

Had the same thought when one day I looked up Action Retro. He was talking about using a Haiku laptop as a daily driver when all of a sudden he switched to talk about a shaving lotion for men and thanked his sponsor!? THAT and the sensationalism that goes with it is what drives me away.

I find a good indicator is to see if the video preview has a photo of the author in it aka attempting "brand building". This verifies the "sales approach" versus the wish to spread information for me. If you want to see for yourself what I mean, look up Retro YouTuber "65scribe" and YouTuber "ActionRetro". Spot the difference?

on attachments:

It's been some time since I've dabbled with the admin settings of SMF, but I vaguely remember there was an option to allow only *registered* users to view attachments. This is not 100% solution, but I assume it'd not only provide a reason to sign up, but also keep the bots spidering this page constantly from grabbing documents?

on editing posts:

Maybe an extended period of time might be a compromise? Raising it to a few hours or a maybe a day? Otherwise I second the fact that this will likely be used by an enraged member to delete / obfuscate prior posts. You wouldn't believe how many people upload stuff to the Mac Garden and then rage delete them for whatever reason.
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The Install OS 9 drivers option when using OSX's Drive Setup will only appear if the drive you are formating is an external drive,  i.e.firewire. OSX will not offer that option if it sees it as an internal drive.
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I suspect, most of "retro" Youtubers have never used OS9 before, not to mention OS7 (which I'm a big fan of).
I also suspect that many of them are there for the money. Note the "Includes paid promotion" in the video  ;)
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Aha, the thread again shifts focus.


well, let me "correct" my statement a bit:

OS9 is "retro" when you have not been using it for a long time/never before.

but it is not "retro", when you have been using it since it exists.
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On a personal note, I get concerned seeing the sudden switch from the casual, amicable language to "Since there's nothing in Registration Agreement <snip>

Don't worry, this is not what I intended. I was making a suggestion, while simultaniously pointing to a "hole" in agreement. I am sorry if you saw it as "offensive".  :)
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@ssp3 You can edit the content of posts (attachments or otherwise) by requesting it to admins/mods and providing them with what will be the replacement. In your case, you need to create the specific watermarked pictures you want to replace the original pictures with, and appropriately send them over. Then you need to specify what posts they will go to, and provide their URLs.

I think this is fair of you to request, especially if the content is sensitive (which doesn't seem to be the case here, but that's besides the point), as long as it doesn't become common practice: from now on you should always upload them watermarked, so that the very limited forum resources (admin/mod time) are not irresponsibly wasted.

But to fulfill what you are asking, there is absolutely zero need to compromise the forum engine as a whole: We shouldn't systematically allow this for an edge case, at the risk of facilitating the destruction of history, as @Knezzen correctly alluded to.

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On a personal note, I get concerned seeing the sudden switch from the casual, amicable language to "Since there's nothing in Registration Agreement about transfer of ownership of original content to forum owner, from legal point of view [...]", because we are not arguing in those terms, and ideally we all should be discussing things in good faith. But this approach and language is destructive, and I strongly condemn this: it shifts our focus from the theme and goals of this forum, which is OS9, to, of all things, legal technicality and jargon. It raises distrust, and makes us defensive. This is not worth it, and anything that shifts us to that direction is a threat. People here are generally good, amicable, and will listen to your plea if there's anything you want edited within reason, without any need for such approach or language.

Incidentally, even if we are to go down that route, the Terms of Use ("Terms and Policy" as it is called on the bottom right corner) can nonetheless be accordingly updated with immediate effect to reflect this, perhaps with something along the lines of "While you own what you post, the proof of which being the fact that you can freely repost and reuse your content anywhere else, posts that are older than X and/or were responded to freeze and can no longer be edited within these forums, and the staff is not responsible nor has the obligation to spend its limited time resources to make such 'post-mortem' changes for you on a whimsy. At most, you can contact staff nonetheless, but the staff won't address the matter unless if the content in question is extremely sensitive, and that too only according to the staff's own discretion.". (I hate the fact I even "had" to type this sh!7: It shouldn't have to come down to this, I'd rather have used that time for something OS9-centric. Also of note: I'm not part of the staff, nor do I aspire to be.)


TL;DR: C'mon. Let's remain reasonable. We don't mess the forum, but if you want to retroactively watermark your stuff that badly, simply send them over, along with the links of the posts they correspond to. We might be able to go from there instead.
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Editing posts retroactively is a bit sensitive.
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I'm not talking about editing text, I'm talking about editing attachments (pictures).

Since there's nothing in Registration Agreement about transfer of ownership of original content to forum owner, from legal point of view, the copyright remains with original poster and he/she has all rights to request removal/replacement etc. of his/her original material. Therefore, I think, it would be better to leave such option to user, if technically possible.

I've been to forums where you have separate page in your profile where you can work with your attachments only.
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Welcome to Our Community - Guidelines, News, & Social Posts / Re: Retro Masochists
« Last post by aBc on Yesterday at 09:28:53 PM »
Quote from: IIO
Zuse is retro, MacOS9 is not.
Aha, the thread again shifts focus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNFBjoJbBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3Zch5tcM0

Thanks IIO, I might have mistakenly guessed Alan Turing. ;)
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I found this monitor https://www.beetronics.es/pantalla-tactil-15-pulgadas-4-3 But dont know where to find the driver.

I also found a few ElO  https://www.ebay.com/itm/145222695773 https://www.ebay.com/itm/266677247212 Ones near my local area, but again drivers are the issue here.

I'm getting close to simply going the route of a raspberry pi or linux thin client / hackintosh.

But then I'd have to figure out a relay configuration to make a speaker properly interface with a push button for turning on ONLY (not off so I cant just wire it up to the button... I think, unless that button is wired to a direct on off switch).
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