This is kind of the problem with Windows-y thinking, yes.
"Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"
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"Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"
Why would that be difficult?
It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.
NVidia are literally the only game in town for video editing, because AMD won't provide compute acceleration in Linux.
In Scotland it's called "Sticky Willie" which is nowhere near as rude as it sounds.
Its primary function in the ecosystem is providing long thin sticky plants for children or childlike adults to stick to each other's clothing without the victim noticing, and seeing how long it takes them to figure it out.
What would that look like, then?
Maybe they are being brusque and dismissive. Maybe they're allowed to. I know I use a somewhat different tone when I'm filing bugs against a project I've been submitting bug reports and patches to for ten years, run by a developer who I've known personally for 20 ;-)
VHS has 240 *horizontal* lines of resolution, meaning that a grid comprising 240 alternating *vertical* black and white stripes ought to be resolvable as a bare minimum. This corresponds (roughly) to 2.5MHz of luminance bandwidth. This is also confusingly named, but there you go.
Youtube's 240p resolution is lower quality than VideoCD, and far *far* lower quality than even fairly manky VHS.
The Beatles used three chord progressions for everything with very little variation.
Modern music has far more variety.
Even at 1440p the video has massive MPEG blocking, it's been heavily compressed after being captured off tape. VHS has not got MPEG-like compression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8dUkeDZTM is an example of a badly-worn and therefore extremely "speckly" and dull VHS tape that I captured a while back. Youtube has a hard time with the chroma noise, but I didn't want to overcook it with denoising etc. so I just left it as it is.
Notice how much smoother everything is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPmCygZIjio is a capture of a very damaged Sony 8mm analogue tape, again with a lot of dropouts. Notice how there's no MPEG blockyness?
These aren't even especially good captures, and were done off a not-properly-set-up "industrial" VHS machine which desperately needs realigned (and probably new heads), into a DV camcorder used as a DAC into a Firewire card.
So what? If you don't use it as intended, it might not do what you want. Don't use it on unsupported niche operating systems.
Actually, no.
The price of alcoholic drinks that you and I would buy hasn't changed a bit. Pub prices haven't changed, because they weren't affected by this law. Retail prices in supermarkets haven't changed a bit. Well, that's not quite true, they've gone up but only at the same rate as everything else.
Pikey cider and various "vodka-style spirit drinks" made from food-grade industrial ethanol and synthetic flavourings have pretty much disappeared from sale. Before Minimum Unit Pricing - which sets the minimum price that retail outlets can sell alcoholic drinks at to 50p per unit of alcohol - it was possible to buy a 3 litre bottle of 8% "cider flavour alcoholic drink" for about three quid. That's essentially been priced out of the market, because no-one wants to pay nearly a tenner for a bottle of windscreen washer fluid without the detergent in.
MUP has not affected the price of "normal" drinks, because let's face it, £1 minimum for a can of beer or £5 for a bottle of wine is already on the cheap end of things.
Since MUP came in, deaths from alcohol-related illness has dropped by about 15%, and in the first year alone alcohol-related deaths (that's illness, accidents, fires, misadventure, etc) dropped by 10%.
More people with alcohol problems are seeking help. Fewer young people - the people who the pound-a-litre pikey cider is marketed to - are drinking underage, and those who are, are drinking less.
While there were fanciful tales in the newspapers that alcoholic drinks would be so expensive in Scotland that people would drive to England to load up with cheaper booze and drive back with it, it turns out that no-one really cares that much. Anyone who has the resources for the "booze cruises" that the trashy tabloids describe probably isn't buying anything affected by Minimum Unit Pricing anyway.
In general, MUP has been a resounding success. It's worked so well that Ireland are now doing it too.
You may need to do some Grievous Bodily Metalwork to make the screening can fit.
Most of the TTL stuff is current manufacture, although you may need to adjust passive components used around "straight" TTL if you use modern 74HCT-family chips.
It's a piece of piss to build 1970s computers with cheap modern jellybean parts that Farnell keep in stock by the million.
The tension on cable strung between two points is a function of the weight pulling down on it, and the reciprocal of the sine of the angle the cable makes where the weight hooks on. For it to be straight, the latter becomes infinite...
If you think 60 bucks for a professional non-subscription heavy-duty media tool is good, DaVinci Resolve is going to blow your tiny wee mind - you can use the same tools they use to make stuff for Netflix, right there on your desktop, for *free*. If you want the extra features of the paid one (maybe you want to cut 8K video, or you really need neural network rescaling, or something) it's about 300 dollars. And that's it, that's you - you own a licence, it's yours, forever, including the upgrades.
At the money that Reaper costs, it's worth buying a copy just to help the folks out.
While I applaud the idea of decentralising Internetty stuff, there are all these massively overengineered monstrosities like Mastodon out there that have shit user experience and break down at scale at an exponential rate.
WASTE looks like it might be fun to run alongside "slow internet" services like NNTP and non-ad-heavy websites.
Fuck it, bring back Gopher!
I can't remember what it was like running Ubuntu 12 and that was only ten years ago, Lasermoon was 30...
Everything was command-line, not least because I didn't have enough space to install X. It worked okay. I feel like the compiler might not have been gcc? Not sure. I know that around the late 90s there was gcc and egcs, which was kind of a fork, that re-merged - I used that on Redhat 6, not RHEL6 but Redhat 6, with Gnome, and the K Desktop Environment as an option (the first versions of both!).
I guess I could trail about and see if I could find images of Lasermoon and try to install it, probably on a VM. If you're interested I could make a video, I guess?
Edit: this was the CD! https://archive.org/details/Shop0396
Back in the olden days it ran just fine on a Compaq Deskpro 386SX but needed a whopping 4MB of RAM.
For me it was Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, and I begrudged every single penny of the 50 pence I paid for it in the Oxfam bookshop on Byres Road.
It's the only book I've ever intentionally destroyed, too. I soaked it in waste Citroën hydraulic fluid, and took it out to the gravelly yard behind my flat, and burnt it. I couldn't bear the thought of anyone without the intellectual rigour to see it for what it is getting their hands on it.
I'd love to build a house like that, not least because I hate plastering corners.