NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
Well, my application level firewall prompts me if audacity attempts to connect to the internet, and I refuse it. Refusing firewall access to a web browser renders it useless for every website, not just a 'audacity as a service'
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Yes, frequently, I tried to get used to lldb, but I still find gdb's breakpoints easier to work with.
513.
by NikkiA 3y ago
As someone that had a 22" Sony trinitron monitor on my (sagging) desk in the late 90s, no, I was glad to switch to LCD.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Timeworks was the one that I was forced to use GEM for, I loved GEM on ST, but the PC version was awful after the lawsuit.
515.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Replying to self to correct myself. The Qi series (microchannel based 386 and 486, the very last apricot PCs) had 1.44MB floppies
516.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Those would be the 'Xen-WS' version, I once used one on a network in the mid 80s (85 or 86, couldn't say which with certainty, but it was while I was in secondary school*), the 'workstation' itself was still running
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Apparently, the cause of the long standing windows disk IO problem was discovered a month or so ago, and MS were said to be working on a fix. Whether it'll be constrained to Win 11 is yet to be seen.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
They were 720k not 1.44MB. I don't think apricot released anything with a 1.44MB before they gave up on the PC market.
519.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Probably the same, NASA has been making batteries out of Lithium where appropriate for 60 years, so they chose that chemistry for a reason (most likely its non-toxicity and relative safety for a crewed space station)
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I get BBC Good Food as the first response, which is even better.
521.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Wikipedia has a screenshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipe_(software)#/media/File:Ipe... But that's Ipe 6 so a few years out of date.
522.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Back in our day, you wanted figures in your (La)TeX files you used xfig and cursed a lot.
523.
by NikkiA 3y ago
TBH Commodore made a mistake cancelling the C900 and releasing the C128, IMO.
524.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It's no worse than the other JPEG names: JNG, JPEG LS, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPEG XS, JPEG XT JPEG-HDR is probably the only one of them that gives away what it might be for.
525.
by NikkiA 3y ago
OTOH, FOX have argued in court before that they're an entertainment channel, not news, so should they get reporter's privilege‽
526.
by NikkiA 3y ago
'max' and 'modular' made me think it was something Cycling'74 related at first, but it's not that, damned name collisions.
527.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I've seen elevators that show the current occupancy/max on a display, so they're tracking it somehow.
528.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It's been 40 years, it IS too good to be true... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_HOTOL#Engine
529.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Usenet is full of useless spam too.
530.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Many modern elevators track weight changes and refuse to even attempt to work if the weight/person count is above the limit.
531.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Why would you choose to lose fuel/acceleration to changing direction?
532.
by NikkiA 3y ago
TBF the books kind of make it fairly clear that Wonka is a scam artist, so this event is on brand, kind of.
533.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Wood grows, aluminium doesn't.
534.
by NikkiA 3y ago
You know what really causes a strobing effect in my living space? Road Traffic. Day AND night.
535.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Largely because it was reported so widely and was obvious what had happened. Where I live a listed church mysteriously burnt down the night after planning permission to turn it into a hotel was declined. Oddly it's just sat there as a
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by NikkiA 3y ago
all of the multiport chargers I've used are power only, I'm not even sure what the point would be in putting any kind of host computer in the charger, since there's no protocols that would benefit from it.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Have you seen how bad crime is in high density parts of Brazil? And you think they have the police force required to enforce rules on a 7 million km² area?
538.
by NikkiA 3y ago
TBF, my experience of america when I lived there, was that black asphalt was far less common than light grey (and thus higher albedo) concrete for both. Increasing albedo is considered to be one of the geo-engineering solutions to try.
539.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Just checked, my eldest is a 2007 lexar "twist n turn" 4GB, last formatted in 2019 with intel lan drivers on it, still 100% reliable, files on it verify ok.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
'Couldn't Read' more like

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