Viewing profile — johnflan

It’s interesting that the DAB rollout completely failed in Ireland and we are back to fully analog FM

> a really well-crafted ios Native App with extensive attention to detail Which seems to becoming a rare thing

damn right

The CPU didn’t but the chonker of a fan in the PSU sure made up for it

Thats the primary reason I'm interested in it.

A modern version of a device with one unique feature... missing that unique feature

I didn't follow the byte ordering of the image format at the end. Anyone have an explanation?

I started with an Acorn a3020, those machines were just amazing. I got my first PC shortly after running Windows for workgroups 3.11 jeez it felt like a step backwards. If Acorn st…

How do they finance those radio stations?

>Video and pictures will soon have no evidentiary value. Thats a very interesting point

It’s fun

A custom built Debian machine with four HDDs in a ZFS volume backed up using restic

I’d love to know more about its design too

It was very common in Ireland too, hunting for conkers was always fun. However I don't think it is common at all now

Certainly would have helped in the era of embedding AI into the operating system.

Same, its become invaluable for me. + I really enjoy this era of self-hosted tools.

I don’t get how “field sobriety testing” in the sense of observing someone perform some coordinated actions is still a thing. In Ireland if stopped by a member of the police (Garda…

I’m not sure that would fly in Europe. And I personally don’t want to hand over my id to use a ticket

You gotta wonder how the technician explained away the four leftover bolts after

ED209?

The Acorn was a marvel of its day (to me at least)

I don’t agree that it was eccentric, I used these as my first machine and they felt pretty natural. I would also suggest that these interactions weren’t completely standardised at …

In Ireland road tax (paid annually) are based on engine capacity for (pre 2008 cars) and CO2 emissions for everything after that. (Engine size is a ok proxy for vehicle size) https…

Who'd have thought