Violet (my birth flower) + 08 (my birth year). Pretty basic.
And most importantly, what is your mother’s maiden name?
Emannediam, of course.
Fuck those preset security questions, I prefer where I can enter a custom security question. My custom security question is “Who is the dumbest person you know?”
Of course nobody but me has the answer to that…
@over_clox @one_old_coder yeah but… this keeps changing over time
I have learned this joke is a really bad one to make in person. They don’t get it, and “I’m a hacker” or “I want your mom” are both suboptimal ways out.
Funny you should ask. It’s k]pE5:'Tr09d(*Pmf.
Violet (my birth flower) + 08 (my birth year).
bruh aren’t you too young to be hornyposting…
26-8 =18
I am already dead
Right, I took psychic damage.
I AM HUMAN. I ASSIGNED MYSELF THIS USERNAME AS PROOF.
Greetings, fellow human. I, too, chose a very normal human name as humans often express interest in the taxonomy of mathematical relations.
WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING? THINK IS AN INDICATOR THAT YOU ARE A ROBOT. YOU MUST BE BLOCKED. BEEP BEEP BOOP
No way you were born in 1908
[Can You Feel My Heart plays]
Fun fact, the dude is real and much older than he looks.
I’ve got no distractions. I play by sense of smell.
Nah. There has to be a twist.
By accident
08 is an unreasonable birth year to have. You’re simply too young. Stop it.
I picked a random word in the dictionary. Unfortunately the first word was diarrhea so i picked a second word
I’d have guessed it was from The Gamers! You could backstab someone with a ballista.
Back in my skydiving days, I coached jumpers just off student status on their canopy flying skills. Everything from packing, to learning how to shoot accuracy. I even taught high performance landings, though I drew the line at hook turns.
While I was never known as “CanopyFlyer” at my home DZ, I was known as someone that a student could come to and get good safe coaching. A couple of my students are now doing it professionally and you’ve seen them in the movies. Although, their skills have far outstripped anything I’ve taught them. I’m proud to have least provided them a foundation that they could build on.
It chose me
I end up explaining things about Canada a lot. Sometimes other things too, so “plus”. It’s how I feel like I’m not just a shitposter.
It goes back far enough it didn’t sound like a streaming service, at the time.
Oh cool, now what username would you have of you combined your mother’s maiden name, your social security number, and your credit card number?
Back in 1998, I overclocked a 486DX2 66MHz to 80MHz.
Back in 2003 or 2004, I overclocked a 1280x1024 CRT monitor from 1994 to 2048x1536 resolution.
Back in 2006 or 2007, I overclocked a Pentium 4 motherboard to support CPUs beyond the listed max of 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
So, it only made sense, like who the fuck overclocks CRT monitors? It was about that time I picked my username. I’m still signed up with Yahoo with this username, if that site even still exists today 😂
Edit: The underscore is deliberate, it makes it a little confusing to verbally say my username, like “over under score clocks?”…
wait holy crap what? you can overclock CRT monitors?
Yes. Well, the older ones anyways, before they got full digital phase locking anyways.
I had a dumb but rather high tech 15 inch CRT for it to have come from 1994. No smart logic though, just a few relays you had to trigger with certain frequencies. No error messages, no safety checks, the thing either accepted the signal or it didn’t. Or it could explode, that was the fun in trying, and yeah it actually worked and didn’t explode!
How did I do it? Well, by then I had an XP system and an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. Wait, this was in late 2005 or early 2006 come to think of it…
Anyways, I checked all the details of the monitor’s supported frequencies, both horizontal and vertical. I found the max resolution, while compromising on the framerate, I used 25Hz interlaced to achieve that, with the Nvidia Control Center of the time…
man that’s dope! never got to play around with CRTs because I was born too late. maybe for the better 'cause i’d probably instantly electrocute myself
Probably so, I got zapped quite a few times myself.
That’s probably what’s wrong with me ain’t it? 🤔
Wait, what happens when you overclock a crt and for why?
It was officially rated for a max of 1280x1024, 50Hz progressive. The more common resolution of choice back then was 1024x768, 60Hz.
Well I wanted a much higher resolution than that, so by absolutely maxing out the horizontal output transistor frequency to 64KHz and doing some quick number crunching, I was able to make a custom display mode of 2048x1536, 25Hz interlaced.
Although the vertical refresh rate got both cut in half and also switched to interlaced, it still absolutely qualifies as overclocking, because the horizontal output transistor (HOT) is basically the most stressed out non high voltage component in any CRT monitor.
Running the HOT at the bleeding edge of the manufacturer’s frequency rating of 64KHz could and would indeed burn it out prematurely if run too long like that, especially without additional cooling, so I didn’t run it too damn long like that, but I just wanted to see if it was even possible.
The monitor itself was from 1994, so it was effectively all analog, no digital onscreen menus, no signal checking and no error message on the screen to say boohoo video mode not supported, the monitor just tuned itself to the signal and frequencies I calculated and arranged for it.
It did however have quite a few analog image transform buttons on its front panel though, for things like trapezoid and shear distortion, raster rotation, corner bowing, etc, lots of things most monitors from 1994 didn’t have, which meant the CRT yoke had probably twice as many deflection coils as a regular consumer CRT.
Not bad for a monitor from 1994 that probably never saw anything over 1024x768 in practical use before I ever acquired it. I got literally 4 times the pixels of the typical desktop resolution of the time.
Was it worth it? For daily use, no. For learning experience, absolutely!
…I didn’t understand any of that, but it was awesome to read. Thank you for trying to explain it to me!
Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy…
