Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 1) 59

by nogginthenog on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:24AM (#66318928) Attached to: BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion

My house in London gets fibre from a telephone pole. It's very common, you see their test boxes everywhere while they are provisioning the system.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 2) 109

by nogginthenog on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:44AM (#65589534) Attached to: Kodak Warns It May Go Out of Business

You can buy (pretty terrible) Kodak branded batteries in pound stores in the UK. They just milking the Kodak name.

Comment Re: Wayland mostly works for me (Score 1) 134

by nogginthenog on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:27AM (#65483698) Attached to: X11 Fork XLibre Released For Testing On Systemd-Free Artix Linux

Hell, I've used RDP over 33K dial-up. Surprisingly fast unless a program displays a splash-screen.

Comment Re:FWIW, RISC-V available on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - (Score 1) 104

by nogginthenog on Saturday June 07, 2025 @04:35AM (#65433593) Attached to: Top Researchers Leave Intel To Build Startup With 'The Biggest, Baddest CPU'

Newer ESP32s also.

Comment Re:Remote matters (Score 1) 76

by nogginthenog on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:17AM (#62904583) Attached to: Google's New Chromecast Costs $30 - and It Has a Remote

No remote is the best feature the Chromecast had. The whole point is to use your phone/tablet.

Comment M68K is still supported by the Linux kernel (Score 1) 117

by nogginthenog on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:22PM (#62570644) Attached to: AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux

Seems fairly active https://github.com/torvalds/li...

Distros maybe not so much.

Comment Re:all 3 users are happy (Score 1) 53

by nogginthenog on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:19AM (#61968289) Attached to: Amazingly, New Commercial Amiga Games are Under Development

The A1000, A500 & A2000 didn't have native hard drive support but it was trivial to add (to the A500 & A2000 at least, I never owned an A1000). The A3000, A4000, A1200 & A600 all had either IDE or SCSI built in.

Comment Re:So like soda cans (Score 1) 61

by nogginthenog on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:50AM (#60639864) Attached to: Burger King Plans To Test Reusable Containers Starting Next Year

Few years back I was at a festival in Amsterdam. The cheap plastic beer glasses had a hefty 1 or 2 Euro deposit. As you say, the local kids or homeless made sure the glasses were collected.

Comment Re:Amazing (Score 1) 128

by nogginthenog on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:16PM (#60636302) Attached to: James Randi, Magician and Stage Artist Devoted To Debunking the Paranormal, Dies At 92

On the flip side I saw a Randi show where a guy with divining rods successfully found whatever they was looking for. Obviously divining is complete bullshit but James' attitude to that really turned me off the guy.

Comment Re:I don't care about the IBM Cell today. (Score 1) 221

by nogginthenog on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:00AM (#59156220) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would Computing Look Like Today If the Amiga Had Survived?

'060 doesn't run hot. It runs far cooler than the '040 and doesn't even need a fan.

Comment Re:US$ 59.99???? (Score 2) 21

by nogginthenog on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:52AM (#59148698) Attached to: Updated iBrowse Web Browser Released for AmigaOS 3.x

The price I see is £34.99, which converts to $41.98. I've seen others quote $59.99. Where are you seeing this?

Comment Re: Brexit will fix this (Score 1) 70

by nogginthenog on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:10AM (#58223742) Attached to: India Beats UK and US on Mobile Data Price

Britain has some of the lowest mobile prices in the EU. I pay £10 for 3Gb with unlimited calls & texts.

Comment Re:Only smartphones? (Score 1) 34

by nogginthenog on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:50PM (#57766266) Attached to: Millions of Smartphones in 11 Countries Were Taken Offline Yesterday by an Expired Certificate

Only in the morning. By afternoon my phone & my colleagues were unable to make calls.

Comment Re:if that's the case... (Score 1) 415

by nogginthenog on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:49AM (#57497830) Attached to: US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty

It works like this pretty much everywhere.

Comment Re:Amiga is DEAD, only necrophiles love the amiga. (Score 1) 69

by nogginthenog on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:27PM (#57420468) Attached to: AmigaOS 3.1.4 For Classic Amigas Released

Amiga is DEAD, only necrophiles love the amiga.

LINUX DESKTOP IS DEAD . When you comepare linux desktop from year 2000 to current linux desktop, surprise surprise : they look almost the same. COmparing modern OS line windows10 with modern linux desktop is like comparing any modern car with a car from year 1980 !!!

I see a common theme here.

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