My new web-cam :)

Yeah, I'm member of the local church and they have Zoom meetings for extra studies, bonus stuff etc. so I bought this beauty, although it's only 30FPS and res 1080. But I hardly think anyone wants to see me in UHD, so it's good enough for its purpose. :sweat_smile:

It works out of the box.

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I need to get one for my desktop because annoyingly it doesn't have one and I often prefer to work on it than on my all-in-one or laptops. Either that or figure out some Android app that can use my phone as a web cam for my pc. Because I'm really not sure about buying a web cam, will it work on Zorin, etc.

Great that yours works out of the box. It looks like it says Creative Live Cam and I did a web search, they look reasonably priced.

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They aren't the cheapest nor expensive ones. A good middle price and I have tested it the video is excellent.
It's called: Live! Cam - sync 1080p v2 (Creative).

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Logitech is another brand that generally works with GNU/Linux.

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Poor Creative. They launched PC audio from the meh chiptunes of Adlib cards into the real audio we know today, only to end up a largely forgotten also-ran in a world of Realtek on-board audio being more than adequate for almost everyone. They still make some neat stuff, at least to my layman's judgement. Can't speak for what actual audio professionals think of their high end stuff.

Their heyday of a PCI card occupying a slot on the motherboard though, has long since faded.

tl;dr: God Locklear93 is old and feels it.

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Remember though days. I had I audio card I could upgrade with 4 MB of RAM which I did.

You feel old?
At the risk of saying "back in my day"
I still remember when the Pentium 486 was the CPU everyone wanted.
I remember the days before mobile phones.

But i appreciate the post. Knowing what hardware will work out of the box is handy.

There was no Pentium 486. The Pentium was the line that followed the 486, and the abandonment of x86 as branding. Penta = 5 = the thing after 4. <_< But yes, I remember too. I cut my teeth with a computer from 1978 after all.

I'm way older than 486, but my first PC was a Pentium 100mhz before that I had C64, Vic20 and Amiga.

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Similar. Atari 800, 800XL, 520ST. First two are similar to C64, third is similar to Amiga in terms of tech era and capabilities. First PC was a 486/DX 33 in 1992.

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Did you play wolfenstein 3D on it ? :sunglasses:

I absolutely did. My mother was appalled by the violence, but it was the first game I purchased a full version of with my own money.

I had cool parents that was cool with violence ... okay, that came out wrong :stuck_out_tongue:

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Mine wouldn't let me watch even the edited-for-TV version of RoboCop. :stuck_out_tongue:

All those great movies we saw at a friend who had a decoder for pay-per-channel. So when his mom wasn't home we saw all that movies.

As you see I didn't take any damage of watching it :wink:

My dad let me watch alien when i was 4 years old. Years after that i was still scared when a alien movie was on tv.

Maybe i remember the days. But obviously not very clearly. Hahahahaha. There go my nerd credentials.

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I didn't own one but my first experience of a computer was as a Health & Safety Officer for Local Government Trade Union. The computers there were Tulip computers.
Powering up you were greeted with a DOS Window with C:\ and a flashing underscore. I had to ask Branch staff how to boot Windows (3.1). "Just type "win" at the prompt." And there it was in glorious black and white. This experience is what led me to purchase an Amiga 1500.

Anyone else have software on cassette tape? My family had a couple written to the same kind of magnetic tape cassettes that replaced 8-tracks.

I had, but no more.