UncleSlacky

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by UncleSlacky 12d ago
Funny, because "bob" is slang for shillings in the old LSD pre-decimal British currency system (coins worth 5 pence in the modern system).
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by UncleSlacky 14d ago
They had high market shares in countries with much smaller populations than the US, so in terms of number of countries (particularly in Europe and South America), it dominated in far more of them than the C64 did.
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by UncleSlacky 15d ago
It's based on helloSystem (at least the GUI is), which you may remember from a few years ago? https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/
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by UncleSlacky 18d ago
WKRP lives! https://www.wherethemusicwent.com/stream https://www.iheart.com/live/wkrp-10724/
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by UncleSlacky 21d ago
> they filter traffic/block IPs/force website to imposes checks (like age checks) that aren't done elsewhere, block torrents, etc. Is that with Orange (France Telecom)? I don't have such issues with Free.
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by UncleSlacky 21d ago
Dammit!
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by UncleSlacky 22d ago
We'd be using wind and water power, as we've done since well before the Industrial Revolution.
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by UncleSlacky 26d ago
I use the F-Droid apps Transistor to listen to streaming radio and Antennapod for podcasts on an old phone: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/ https://f-droid.org/en/pac
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by UncleSlacky 29d ago
And BASIC in ROM.
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by UncleSlacky 1mo ago
Why not just use Fluff Busting Purity? https://www.fbpurity.com/
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by UncleSlacky 1mo ago
Some games even used it for (attempted) speech synthesis: https://spectrumgamesuk.com/index.php?game=Meteor-Storm "...possibly the first game with speech synthesis, albeit sounding like an unintelligble gargle."
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
The well-known country of Europe with its single set of laws? That Europe? Self-defence can be a valid justification for manslaughter, at least in the UK.
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
And of course, in the UK, every school had at least one BBC Micro (about the only good thing Thatcher ever did).
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
The UK also had the Sinclair QL (68008-based) in 1984 for £399, famously owned by Linus Torvalds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL#Linux
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
Lots of Radio 4 programmes are available as podcasts, and it is possible to stream BBC radio outside the UK without a VPN - see the links here: http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
I quite like the "new" WKRP (in Cincinnati of course), it doesn't seem to be a corporate cookie-cutter kind of station, and it plays the kind of thing the TV version would probably play today (and they even use the same jingl
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
You should run something like Void, Alpine or antiX on these. HaikuOS also runs really well on them if you don't need actual Linux.
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by UncleSlacky 2mo ago
Also, honourable mention for the Sinclair QL (though it was a 68008 machine).
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by UncleSlacky 3mo ago
https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos "To get your work off the key, just insert the key into a computer that's already running any more modern OS than DOS."
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by UncleSlacky 3mo ago
Haiku OS is a better choice. Runs great on my eeepc 701 4G with 512Mb RAM.
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by UncleSlacky 3mo ago
Yes, I was surprised that MX didn't get a mention. It's great on anything with 2GB or more.
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by UncleSlacky 3mo ago
You can also emulate a Pi using QEMU to run Mathematica (slowly!) on other platforms, see e.g. https://www.thelinuxvault.net/blog/how-to-run-the-raspberry-...
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by UncleSlacky 3mo ago
Obligatory mention for tvdawn.com, which I've just discovered has gone, but has been archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260413085517/https://www.tvdaw...
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by UncleSlacky 3mo ago
Well, interesting things are expected to happen above the Schwinger limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
Reminds me of "pykrete" which was also a potential construction material for ships (notably aircraft carriers) proposed during WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
Works for ChatGPT!
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
Something like Feynman's algorithm: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think very hard. 3. Write down the solution.
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
It's essentially saying that you start with an outline, then progressively fill in the sections, iterating and providing more detail at each iteration. I do something similar, which is why I prefer to work in outline mode (e.g. in MS W
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
Sounds like Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/
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by UncleSlacky 4mo ago
You could just use RISC OS on the PI for BBC Basic.

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