It's a cute commercial.
On another note, I miss my laserdisc player. But there was nowhere to rent movies from locally, I think I owned five ever. It quit working before the 90's were out. Still I kinda miss the big clunky disks and having to flip them.
You know what, I just checked, and account expiry is covered in the FAQ.
It might well be expired.
I second emailing membership, they might be able to help you. Or if you trust one of us, we might be able to check, as well.
For finger to work remotely, you have to have set up a .plan file as well as applied correct permissions to it at the time in your home directory.
I have a .plan file, I get that response from finger when I'm on SDF but it doesn't work when I do the lookup remotely. I don't recall the needed permissions.
$ finger chance
Login: chance Name: Chance Platt
Directory: /sdf/arpa/af/c/chance Shell: /usr/pkg/bin/bash
On since Sun Jun 9 09:56 2024 (UTC) on pts/19 from 99.162.15.208
Mail last read Sun Jun 9 09:48 2024 (UTC)
Plan: I'm friendly-like.
Now, since you know your username, there is a password reset mechanism:
You know, thanks for this. I've never reach Pitchfork before, I might just start now.
The lag is unfortunate on the USB version. They're already loud and fairly high activation force; when you add in the latency, the experience of them is pretty different than sitting down in front of a real IBM Model M and a DOS machine (with PS2); like they are far more dramatic than they really are.
It took me a year or so so using the USB version (and occasionally going back and trying them again and again because I like the key feel) before I decided the latency was too much for me.
My memory of the PS2 versions is they have no lag whatsoever. If you have a computer with PS2 you can try it; or you can try a PS2->USB converter, as well. I bet different converters have better latency than the stock electronics.
I had an Ergo Pro, and I can't recommend more against it.
It had a problem with ghosting / doubling keystrokes that kicked in after about nine months. It was intermittent at first, until I realized I was compensating for it consistently. Beyond their support timeframe by then.
The reason I put up for it for so long is that I haven't found a keyboard before or since that had such a great feel to the keystrokes.
I've had several Unicomps and none of them failed in any way. The buckling spring keyboards feel better over time as you keyboard with them.
There's a newer Unicomp that's the standard size layout but with a reduced overall keyboard case size. That one is the best, IMHO. It sounds just and good as it feels. The others have more of a "spring" or hollow sound, versus like a chunk of metal sound.
Downside to the USB Unicomps: there's noticeable latency. In comparison to say, a Logitech K840 or G513.
I type on a Logitech G513 today. Decently mechanical, good key travel, zero noticeable latency.
Encarta seems so quaint to me now, but it really was a well curated encyclopedia that had a designed charm to it.
I admit when I saw this headline I thought "but what about music" and for me, CD's lived long after the 90's due to small music players and cars having audio CD players but not yet being able to read MP3's. Decks with that feature and cars with that feature were not much later.... but we still burnt them to CDRs.