digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
Not sure if the nordics were a mixed bag or not, as i don't recall anyone using tape for their C64 (but a few had UK computers, the Amstrad CPC in particular).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Europe was a mixed bag, at least i have the impression that Nintendo was the big seller in the Nordics. I knew several people, myself included, that had a NES, but only one that had a Master System. And i don't know of anyone that had
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yeah, the 500 was what kept the Amiga going in the home market afaik (i didn't even know the x000 range existed until years after i had gone PC, all i knew was the 500/600/1200). All in all the NES was more akin to the C64, w
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yeah i thing a watershed was back when movies were added to the Android Marketplace (later renamed Google Play). This coincided with Android getting a much more restrictive permission regarding removable media (under the label media storage
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Really glad i switched to DDG for my random searches (i can always do a !g if i feel that the results are meaningless).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
First off, in hindsight i should perhaps have likened it to AOL or some such. As for losing something, best i can tell this came about because ISPs were loath to become the "paymasters" of the internet. Consider that for a brief m
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by digi_owl 8y ago
In a sense a government sponsored BBS platform.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Best i can tell, it is the national broadcasters that keep them in operation because they don't have to consider ad revenue. USA do not have anything like that, so it would not surprise me that their channels wants to phase it out (or
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Some time back there was an article about the use of floppies in the Norwegian health service. The reason for it was that some doctors stuck to their DOS based patient journals, as they were fully keyboard operated. Thus they were able to o
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by digi_owl 8y ago
It is funny how well it translated to the web, thanks to the pages all being referenced by numbers.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
"force touch"? Or adding a bit of that old resistive thingy to capacitive screens?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> very intelligent So of the biggest trolls are just that. Trying to paint "trolls" are some drooling man-child in a basement does the world a massive disservice.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Speaking of the laws of physics, i suspect the primary limitation for this will be the power supply. I seem to recall that there are ongoing jokes regarding existing AR games that one basically have to bring a generator (aka car) to keep up
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The world has started to resemble cyberpunk more and more over the years...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
8-bit guy just posted a video in his Commodore history series that involved the Timex Sinclair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiZbUypMlQ
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Only for Timmy to get something naughty handed over via the sneakernet....
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I suspect it will be most useful when you have a reasonable suspicion of where the camera will be, deploy this between you and said camera.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yeah i have the impression That until the 386 or so happened, most mainframe people scoffed at "micros" as toys that could never be used for much more than beeps and all caps text. This, sadly, seems to have resulted in the "
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Heh, whenever Fairlight gets mentioned my brain trips up because the first place i encountered that name was as a maker of cyberdesks in Shadowrun (a pen and paper RPG).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The main error was to be the economy on heavily exporting oil, only for the oil price to tank (Thanks, Saudis). While being able to heavily export oil, they could heavily import stuff that could help the poorest of the population. But when
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Villains comes in all shapes and sizes. MS was, and possibly still is, the classical abuser of market position. The kind that age old antitrust laws were written to combat.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
In large part because grsec would opt to break backwards compatibility whenever it had to be weighed against further hardening.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
They also invariably opted towards security when there was a trade-off between security and backwards compatibility, a big red flag when trying to get anything past Torvalds.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
At least the GNU "bloat" is a legacy of trying to be compatible with all the commercial _nix variants that sprouted.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And on that note it was booted off the front page within 5 hours of being posted...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
May as well be, as via the EEA we seem to adopt more directives from Brussels than some full members...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
From a user standpoint they lack the profiles that bluetooth has baked in, that ensures that devices can talk to each other with little to no extra software.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Speaking of subsidizing shipping, i seem to recall that the price of postage is fixed no matter the distance and remoteness with the calculation that more trafficed areas then subsidize less trafficed areas.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
hear hear. I try to map out a timeline and it seems to all come out of those years around 2007-2008. For some reason around that point the industry, FOSS included, seemed to decide that most computer owners are idiots, that need to be put i
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I figured those where made much like their APUs of previous years, meaning that it was all on a single die.

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