Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 1) 59
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
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
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
Newer ESP32s also.
Comment Re:Remote matters (Score 1) 76
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
Seems fairly active https://github.com/torvalds/li...
Distros maybe not so much.
Comment Re:all 3 users are happy (Score 1) 53
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
It works like this pretty much everywhere.
Comment Re:Amiga is DEAD, only necrophiles love the amiga. (Score 1) 69
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.
