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micv
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Those things are terrifying. Someone's little scooter's wheel base is definitely not stable enough for that sort of speed.

And that's before the battery fires.
micv
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's one thing when you're a fit adult male and get hit by an idiot cycling recklessly on the pavement, it's another if you're a small child or frail through sickness or old age. I've seen a couple of very near misses that would have ended very badly for the pedestrian through no fault of their own.

Saying this it's mostly teenagers in the idiot role from what I've seen and they are reckless by default.
micv
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Getting my first SSD was absolutely the best computer upgrade I've ever bought. I didn't even realise how annoying load times were because I was so used to them and coming from C64s and Amigas even spinning rust seemed fairly quick.

It took a long time before I felt a need to improve my PC's performance again after that.
micv
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It was alright in Quake, as I recall, but it really didn't cope at all well with Quake 2 and Jedi Knight.
micv
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> Actually it was the Ati Radeon 9500 non pro that could be modded into a Radeon 9700.

Sometimes. At least some of those 9500s were binned parts that showed their broken bits when you modded them. I had one. The screen turned into a kaleidoscope when I tried to play a game.

Was definitely worth a try if you had one though!
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The post office was acting as victim, investigator, and prosecutor and simply lied or withheld evidence to ensure that the defence had nothing to work with and the jury had nothing to contradict that view. It's absolutely batshit levels of corruption and there must be severe consequences.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The replies from blue ticks that get pushed up mostly seem to be braindead trolling and camgirl spam too. Twitter was always a bit of a cesspit but you could curate your way to a useful feed. Now it's just awful.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
There's been talk of replacing the natural gas used directly for heating in the UK with hydrogen. I have absolutely no idea how viable that will actually prove to be but it seems difficult.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yeah. That's where I've gone for all my Amiga nostalgia needs over the years.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I've seen them listed anywhere between one and several thousand depending on condition, spec, accessories, etc.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yeah, that's what happened to most of them. Between that and leaky caps I don't think there's many working examples left now.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If you still have that A4000 it's worth real money now to the retro crowd.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The user experience of reddit is already poor unless you hide on old.reddit.com. I have no idea how anyone could sign off an interface like the new one, which is just appallingly slow even on relatively high-end hardware.
micv
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is where I am. Once they cut off password sharing here I'll be cancelling my subscription. They produce very little content I watch these days and license even less as other streaming services have started ring fencing it. It's not a huge expense, so it's fine as long as my parents are getting use out of it, but once that's gone it's going to make no sense for me to keep paying.
micv
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
They were used for video work in their day. Babylon 5 used them for effects shots.

I think the big box Amigas were more common across the pond, used for work stuff, in the US than they were in Europe, where the Amiga 500 sold relatively big numbers and was a big gaming machine in the late 80s/early 90s.
micv
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This isn't a simple territorial dispute. Russia has abducted vast numbers of people to camps from where we have no idea what happened to them, vanished Ukrainian children into their adoption system, and massacred huge numbers of civilians wherever it has taken control. They are clearly trying to wipe Ukraine and its identity off the map.
micv
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Some Lightning devices use both sides to get USB3 speeds. I really have no idea why Apple have left other devices at USB2 performance. It doesn't make an awful lot of sense to me.
micv
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The US government is also spending massive amounts of healthcare without actually delivering healthcare to way too many people. The whole system is bonkers.
micv
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Do US courts not have the ability to refuse bail to people like this? You'd have the same problem if he had enough cash to afford bail. It seems like a complete failure of the system for him to even have the option of not being held on remand until trial.
micv
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Contract manufacturing won't have anywhere near as fat a margin as their CPU lineup has had the last decade though. That'd be a hard thing to sell to the shareholders.