bgeeek

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by bgeeek 7y ago
I'm sure there are other sites, but one that I follow: /r/unixporn on reddit.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Same here. Absolutely fine.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Yep, it's awful - they really do need to fix that issue on them. I've happily bought every revision of the RPi and use them in a multiple places for different tasks, so it's not like I'm too critical of them. I've h
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by bgeeek 7y ago
I know, but I also like pihole and what it offers, plus I can do other things on the RPi.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Because, iirc, USB and networking share the bus - it was impossible for me to create a private WiFi network with an RPi alone. Performance was horrendous.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Get a gl router and put openwrt on it. Much better as a travel device. Add an RPi for pihole. Cracking little kit.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Except it was used elsewhere in the UK before London.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
I think I was more disturbed by the news on TV when I was a kid, which was long before even remotely realistic games started appearing. There are so many depictions of violence in everyday life be it video games, the news, movies, music, a
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by bgeeek 7y ago
It would be useful if they made it clear to their own readership that they do it, too. Instead it just plays up to a certain readership.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
I'm regular reader and I'm not sure that I would agree with you. My problem with the guardian is that it doesn't currently know what it wants be. The other annoyance - the frivolous clickbait articles. They have articles on
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Yep, these are the ones we get. I detest the way in which they say "hello" and leave a pause, expecting you to say something back. At first it made me feel silly for having been tricked into a natural response. Now, we just don&#x
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Naw, they never died out at all. We used to get bombarded with international calls prior to blocking international calls. Now, they just spoof them from an adjacent city - we've had them purportedly from Liverpool and Bristol. Bizarre,
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Part of what you're talking about is what bugs me about Amazon and the publishers. When I buy an audio CD, I can have it "auto-ripped" and available to download immediately as an MP3. I wish the same applied for more expens
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by bgeeek 7y ago
True, before MP3, we used to borrow CDs from the library and copy them to tape, too. Libraries were brilliant as an impoverished student :)
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by bgeeek 7y ago
We did similar with the dos prompt, which must have been about 1991.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
YouTube maybe, but movies? I could think of nothing worse. The score for a movie is just as important to me as the visuals.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
I tend to read around a number of respected sources and magazines. It's a source of fun for friends and family, but I'm far too cynical with one review or source of reviews.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
The chap on BBC radio yesterday said that he deliberately gave lower marks (4 star) than 5 because of exactly that - it looked too obvious. He also said that some of the products that he was paid to review he didn't even use (hemorrhoi
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Yeah, the 3 mentioned are listed in the link in the article. Agree about Little Computer People. As a speccy owner, I can vaguely remember being envious at the time!
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by bgeeek 7y ago
Maybe if people acted responsibly in the first place there would be less dogs in shelters.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
It's also commonly laughed at in the UK. We typically see it as an Americanism that is a sort-of catch-all for different genres of electronic music. When Aphex first came out it was under the genre/banner of "Braindance"
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by bgeeek 7y ago
To be honest, I think he is more of a musician’s musician and a bit hard to “get” ? Not in the UK - I would say Selected Ambient Works vol 1 is one of the best records of the '90s. Still stands up very well today.
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by bgeeek 7y ago
"In the days before the Internet you only found Warp records in independent record shops" ? Are you sure about that? That's not really true in the UK, both HMV and Virgin stocked early Aphex, and I think my Selected Ambient W
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by bgeeek 8y ago
TLL was way ahead of its time, IMHO. Fast forward 10 years and Desert Strike is a hit on the Megadrive! I can vaguely remember proper flightsims on the Speccy (one required a lens-lock! remember those?) :) This is going to bug me now - I&#x
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by bgeeek 8y ago
I was wracking my brain trying to think of early '80s job-simulator games, mostly because there aren't many at all. I'm not sure that I'd class Trashman, Paperboy or Tapper (fond of all 3 btw) as job-simulators. Other
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by bgeeek 8y ago
Price. That's literally it.
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by bgeeek 8y ago
Needs more detail, though. I want to know if he's using Mad WiFi or a wired connection, and listening to music very loudly while using it ;)
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by bgeeek 8y ago
Not keen on the coil whine and Mad WiFi. Put me off the XPS 13.
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by bgeeek 8y ago
2011 MBA here. Waiting to buy a new MBP,... but not on your nelly with that keyboard, touchbar, and lack of ram on the smaller model. Also budgeted for one. I've also become very cautious over Apple, which is a shame.
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by bgeeek 8y ago
Definitely. This should really be the top comment!

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