UncleSlacky

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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
You could just use RISC OS on the PI for BBC Basic.
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
Wasn't it because Jack Tramiel was too cheap and just wanted to make use of his existing MS BASIC licence?
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
Fonts are generally included in DOS applications, but the point of a "writerdeck" is to be distraction-free, hence no need for wifi.
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
Why not just use DOS? e.g.: https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos At least the laptops that can still run DOS natively tend to have fairly good keyboards...
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
"MOISTURISE ME!"
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
They might be thinking of the Bell+Howell clone: https://www.oldcomputers.net/bellandhowell.html https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-bell-and-howell-apple-ii/
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
Not to forget the Orion Pictures logo: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Orion_Pictures
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally!
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
It's also a notoriously difficult experiment to perform. When I did it at university, the value of G I got was out by an order of magnitude - and that was considered a good result!
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by UncleSlacky 5mo ago
Maybe you could get together with the SpaceHey guy: https://spacehey.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245740
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
Here's the link mentioned in the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20090107061334/http://www.americ... Apparently she was 4 at the time and lived next door: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
Presumably Cornelius Roosevelt.
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
Moksha (a fork of e17) is the main desktop for Bodhi Linux, an unofficial Ubuntu-based distro: https://www.bodhilinux.com/moksha-desktop/ https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
They're up to e27 now, it even supports Wayland.
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
Or just install Win10 IoT LTSC, which is supported until 2032.
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
Or a "De Gaulle Apology Form": https://i.redd.it/opw3zv6x4qke1.png
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
It was suggested again in 1956 in the context of the Suez crisis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6261885.stm
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
Sadly even Cyber Yugoslavia is no more, it only shows the text "juga.com" now: https://web.archive.org/web/20220122221632/http://www.juga.c... http://www.juga.com/
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by UncleSlacky 6mo ago
I don't think it was concern about relative status, more the risk that a reunited Germany could once again become a significant economic/military power that could threaten the stability of Europe.
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by UncleSlacky 7mo ago
Note that this provides a 32-bit version of Debian Trixie for those who are interested.
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by UncleSlacky 7mo ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by UncleSlacky 7mo ago
> the pre-WW2 television broadcasts. Most of these were broadcast in the London area and practically nowhere else. Almost no one had recording equipment back then and they were often broadcast live. The "Phonovision" recordings
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by UncleSlacky 7mo ago
> The braun drain was to the US I see what you did there...
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
Private healthcare exists alongside the public system in many places.
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
Is he?
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
"The future is socialism or barbarism" (Rosa Luxemburg). I fear we have chosen the latter.
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
The author has updated the site to address this: "Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated. Which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose. I just wante
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
France has a little more than that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
There was also "Tom's Root Boot" distro that fitted on a floppy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt
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by UncleSlacky 8mo ago
You can force YouTube to use H264 instead (via extensions like H264ify), that should reduce the processing load.

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