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The BBC micro was a ridiculously good hobbyist / tinkering machine ever created. It had a bunch of easy to use interfaces both digital and analog. It had great upgrade potential wi…

Glad I dodged a bullet there by not buying Apple stock back in 2006'

Prepay is generally a better deal in UK and Ireland and often includes unlimited internet for about €20. Here is an example from Vodafone (not the cheapest by any means): https://n…

"when my mobile net has run out"? Are Japanese mobile networks stuck in the 2010s? In Europe unlimited (or at as near as makes no difference) data has become so ubiquitous that pub…

Anyone explain why it sang with an Irish accent?

Can someone explain to a clueless person (me) how a 1Hz CPU manages to achieve even 0.1fps frame rates. That is only ten clock cycles per frame. I don't know what the IPC of Chungu…

Can anyone give me a TLDR of this? I think it is saying that "Just cause cats don't act like humans doesn't mean they aren't smart" but its very long and doesn't have a decent summ…

This annoys me because it is the opposite of the way I do matrix multiplication myself. I work from left to right taking the rows of the left hand matrix, transposing them then sca…

I can bring you back a little further than BBS system. I was in University n Europe in the 1980s and thanks to IBM European Universities got free access to a European academic rese…

If you have any interest in the origins of the personal computer you should track down the sublime documentary series "Triumph of the Nerds" by Bob Cringely. You an find various ve…

Wait a sec. I can rent a whole car for less than €8.50 per hour. I sure as heck am not going to pay an extra €8.50 an hour for a car I already bought and paid for.

There may be a way to get out of this by switching to another plan and availing of the 2 week grace cancellation period. https://responsivedesign.is/articles/cancel-adobe-without-p…