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Lots of random crap that caught my eye, along with some of the tables the group I was with made purchases from. If there's something of interest, ask and I will see what I remember about it.

Lots of random crap that caught my eye, along with some of the tables the group I was with made purchases from. If there's something of interest, ask and I will see what I remember about it.

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Hamvention always makes me chuckle, first thing that comes to mind isn’t old electronics. Cool pics

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Came here to say this. I fled Reddit to voat when fatpeoplehate was banned, stumbled on some other information there and here, and now I'm a pure blood nazi ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Same exact story here. RIP Voat.

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The people tend to be large, yes.

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Lucky you have that venue, I like digging thru those events

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https://pic8.co/d/e1a4b4b9-eb1c-4e32-9507-027ace21e6cb.jpg

What in the world is going on with that?

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Those are all Nvidia Tegra processor cards. Hopelessly obsolete now, but still fairly powerful.

The vendor said that this was from a startup that was doing group screen mirroring of netflix accounts. That is, you could sign in and share, via a chrome extension, what you were watching to the rest of the (remote) people.

However, we all thought he was full of shit and it was a coin miner of some sort. The amount of video processing shunting going on for a mass adoption of what he was talking about would have been massive.

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That just seems overly complicated for a just streaming Netflix content. Possibly full of shit, as you said.

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It was supposed to be a groupshare thing with people in many locations, like a movie night for the covid faithful.

But yeah, that's totally a bitcoin miner.

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Damn, I need one of those rackmount power bars.

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Those are all three-phase units. You're going to be using more electricity than I am...

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Nice photo dump.

That Panasonic camera looks cool. Any info on it?

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It's a discrete component (as in no ICs) camera, probably from the early-mid 1960s. Not sure what type of pickup tube it uses, but this is the kind of camera your local UHF station would have used when they broadcast those gawd-awful "local" programs.

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Wayne's world was pretty good though

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Yeah, I'm talking more in the late 60s. By the time Wayne's World came about, you could get a color camera.