* Posts by Mage

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Canonical turns to Google framework for new installer, but community asks why not have a Flutter on GTK?

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Google Framework

What are they smoking and drinking in Canonical? It's bad enough that people have to have it on Android!

Couldn't decide if Flame, D'oh, Nuclear, or splattered keyboard was a better icon.

I do have one Android based gadget that has an on-off switch for it. This is REALLY stupid.

'It's dead, Jim': Torvalds marks Intel Itanium processors as orphaned in Linux kernel

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Re: left the whole server arena about ten years ago

Technically available doesn't mean alive. It was mostly dead nearly 12 years ago and no-one could persuade Miracle Max to resuscitate it.

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Re: mulii-core killed Itanic

64 bit XP for Itanic was very short lived, killed off years before 32 bit x86 XP.

It was the 2nd 64 bit Windows. The first was a version of NT4.0 for the 64 bit Alpha.

DEC and demise of the Alpha wasn't really anything to do with the doomed Itanic. That was a more complex thing and also it was great pity Intel got the DEC StrongARM and that HP got Compaq and DEC.

Nearly 11 years ago:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2010/04/05/microsoft_pulls_plug_itanium/#c_733422

European Commission redacts AstraZeneca vaccine contract – but forgets to wipe the bookmarks tab

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Re: Palestinians have asked you for vaccines

No, they didn't. Palestinians are split between PLO run PA on the West Bank and Hamas run Gaza. Both have their own programs and did accept training but also refused direct help.

Also under 1985 Oslo Accord they run their own health service.

Every year the UN passes anti-Israel resolutions that are rather biased. There are a lot of Arab and Moslem countries in the GA.

Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges

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Re: How is this possible?

And the developer of C++ didn't want the C backward compatibility. It's possible to really write C programs and use a C++ compiler.

Then there are the C libraries.

The best practice C++ doesn't use C libraries or copy and pasted C constructs.

Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome

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Re: The browser-as-the-platform endgame

And who runs and controls OAuth2?

It's possible to do IMAP or POP3 with Thunderbird (or Android FairEmail) with or without OAuth. However the non-OAuth version needs settings changed in the gmail on webpage and in your actual Google account associated with that.

Additionally ALL Google services complain if you are not using a Google client for any Google Service and your IP or device is changed. You then have to login to your account and Click Yes it was me.

TOTAL ABUSIVE MORONS. The whole point of the Internet is using different devices, IPs, Locations for the same services. So I only have a bare minimum of Google stuff I use now.

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Re: need to do more than that

I put up with increasing daft Firefox mobile on phone and tablets for years. Had to recently change to Brave (based on Chromium) because Firefox just got too stupid on GUI and also seemed to remove settings.

You do need to change some defaults on Brave.

Also I now don't use any site where I have to login on my mobile or tablet, mostly Waterfox on desktop Linux. I have Chromium on Linux to access some Google Services / Accounts and Firefox for maybe two sites so I don't have to remember to use the Cookie Swap plugin on Waterfox.

And who was the idiot that decided tabs should be separate from the document, above all control interface GUI elements? At least Classic Theme Restorer on Waterfox Classic fixes that. You also need the Classic Plugin Repository plugin on Waterfox since Mozilla purged.

Brave is less than I want on phone/tablet, but seems better than Android's cut down Chrome called Browser or Firefox mobile.

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Re: Google spyware is the bane of Android

Some gadgets have an on/off setting for Google Framework. Your local Google books, comics and audio in Playbooks are inaccessible without it as the Google Playbooks App vanishes along with PlayStore icon. They do come back when it's re-enabled.

I added FairEmail when I discovered the stock Email client on Android is just a sort of Google Terminal and you are actually telling Google all the email settings.

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Re: captcha

But aren't most captchas now Google Crowdsourcing data for various projects?

Malicious parasites.

Self Driving I remember when Self Driving meant hiring a car without a driver.

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Re: People use Chromium to get away from as much of Google

This SHOULD be true, or else they might as well use Chrome.

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Chromium is doomed.

But Mozilla needs to go back to a distinctly separate desktop GUI and a Mobile GUI, stop dumbing down GUI and settings and stop copying Google.

Waterfox Classic with Classic theme restorer is what Firefox should be like on the desktop. It should have the like of NoScript, uMatrix or UBlock Origin built in. The mobile version should look somewhat like Brave, but with all the traditional settings.

You almost don't need AV, if you block all 3rd party and all bad domain by default. Drive by malware via adverts and stupid web design is the big issue. Also block default scripts of ALL SM site buttons and replace them with a simple HTML link.

Chromium is doomed and can it really be a good idea that MS is basing Edge on Chrome/Chromium. Chrome is really intended to be spyware for Google and allow their adverts to run smoothly. Google are an Advert Agency. As such they should be forced to divest of Chrome, Chromebook and Android at the least. They have proven that they are not trustworthy.

People should also stop using remote Google APIs, captcha, fonts and Analytics. Install scripts, fonts and images on your own servers!

Google are the worst sort of parasite.

Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity

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Why still MS?

Linux was good enough for Schools over ten years ago.

Apple kit, like iPads as mandatory for every pupil, is an even more crazy waste of money and lock-in.

Google's Alphabet sticks a pin in its Loon internet broadband service

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Re: Do they scale up?

No, it doesn't.

The balloon thing is a nice idea for a HAP, more like something out of a novel. When you look at the details it was never going to be viable.

Musk's LEO satellites are for well off people and only marginally less stupid. It can't scale to a mass market without a silly number of satellites.

Africa, for instance, has been getting fibre and mobile. Mostly from the Chinese.

Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas

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Re: particular recommendations?

Bull's Blood.

But I've not seen it for years.

Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone

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It's evil and malicious

Working late till 2 am and the stupid MS office or Windows decides it's not registered after you had to change something.

Then later they switch off servers.

Now they hide the activation phone numbers. You type the HUGE list of numbers and too quickly the computer synthesised voice gives you the new number to type in.

It's a totally abusive system, as is all DRM.

And of course it wastes time of ordinary people and stuff is still pirated on a giant scale.

DRM on video, ebooks, audio streaming etc is a lie. It makes money for the people selling DRM solutions, who are parasites. Books and movies are even commercially pirated before being available on eBook or DVD/BD.

SO STUPID wasting the time of ordinary people.

Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there's no licence to ply

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Re: the lie that "Android"

Google isn't a fit company to own Android, Chrome Browser or Chrome OS.

An advertising company parasitising most internet activities and as much personal information as possible.

Probably they should not be allowed to own YouTube, Gmail, PlayStore, Playbooks or Google Maps. They also should have lost or the case revisited on book digitisation because they don't simply use it for search and even that was a poor excuse.

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and Kyocera

WHY are the USA allowed to inflict their trade, IP and DRM policies BETWEEN 3rd party countries?

Also the USA President is ONLY the USA's leader, not the leader of the Free World. We don't have a leader for the Free World. Not even the UN, which is rightly a talking shop and place for arbitration or negotiation, or to highlight issues. Given the attitudes of the permanent members of the Security Council and the majority of countries of the GA, it's only a convenience that WHO, ITU, Postal Union etc is under the UN umbrella and two of those massively predate the UN. Probably ITU should also control IPs and Domain names as that's slightly less bonkers than having USA private companies do it.

Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

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Re: It's been obvious for days

Cardinal Richelieu?

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Re: GDPR

Facebook ALREADY shared the data between all their companies and harvests via the scripts on the default website icons.

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Lack of ethics and trust

I was a bit disturbed when I realised that the Email Client on Android is really a shell on gmail and all the credentials for the pop3 or imap are actually being used on a google server.

So then I looked at the only SMS client on most Android phones and read about it. Google Messages. Maybe best replaced by Signal or a dedicated SMS application.

Google can't be trusted. It's time they were forced to divest of Android. They don't do wardriving (WiFi) when doing Street View because (a) They were caught. (b) With Android, Chrome and Chromebook they don't need to.

Google are not trustworthy enough to own Android, Chrome and Chromebooks.

Zuckerberg isn't trustworthy enough to own any Apps. Or even Facebook.

We have a problem.

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Re: Have WhatsApp halted the "privacy" change?

But didn't they secretly combine much WhatsApp info not long after acquisition? Yet again a major company lies to get take-over approval.

Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech

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Re: Attaching a tractor-fed Epson LX-80 dot matrix impact printer was the height of luxury

Creating an ebook and copy to Kobo or Kindle isn't bad to avoid paper. Especially to proof novels.

Sony also did Digital Paper, large up to nearly 14" eink based tablets for PDF after they stopped doing ebook ereaders.

Some companies still make them. But they are very expensive and awkward to copy back annotations or notes. Some use a Wacom pen.

Also laptop screens are often now 1080 tall rather than 1200 and 16:9, both of which is less good for the paperless office than laptops 2002 to 2005.

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Re: Attaching a tractor-fed Epson LX-80 dot matrix impact printer was the height of luxury

And MX-80 on Apple, Research Machines and BBC micro.

The RM 380Z (I think that's the model) only had 7 bits on the port. We modified a few to have 8biits. The I/O chip and the OS supported 8 bits (needed for graphics or extended characters), so the missing wire was a strange decision by Research Machines. As was having the bus ribbon cable on the top of the cards on the shoebox case instead of various other possible methods that would let you swap a card without unplugging all of them. It seemed a big step back from S10, 0 bus machines. A little later we had the Act Sirius 1, which was far superior to the IBM PC which arrived in the UK slightly later. Victor 9000 in USA, where the IBM was earlier.

IBM original: No graphics, no HW clock, no audio, low capacity floppy, shiny screen, edge connector ISA. Parallel and Serial needed an option card.

ACT Sirus 1: 800 x 400 graphics, matt screen, HW clock, Audio, parallel, serial and maybe GPIB? High capacity floppies. Though you could blow the fuse in the monitor if you set a wrong refresh rate.

You could just about cut stencils with the 9 pin Epson DMPs. We had a 132 column Epson up till late 1990s. The MX80 maybe bought in 1981 or 1982.

Brother Duplex Colour laser / scanner now.

I do have USB parallel and serial ports that are not that old. Work on Linux and Windows. Also I have HP and Dlink print servers. I've been meaning to see if my Roland A3+ plotter works on one. I did find that on Windows it doesn't work properly on parallel and much searching was required to find a serial cable from 9 pin to 25 and wired to suit. I've toyed with getting a knife blade to cut vinyl or a UV led with a set of adapted pen bodies to vary the spot size to expose either UV film for screen print or a PCB. But it's cheap to get PCBs in China or Eastern Europe and really a mill is better for instant PCBs than UV plus etching. I did have a mill set up for 0.8mm thick double sided PCB prototypes. Slow but less messy and more accurate than etching and faster than ordering.

My coat has a booklet of Epson DMP commands.

The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at

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Re: smart phone with a camera

Also dash cams.

Funny the cryptozoology sightings have massively dropped too!

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Re: A matter of interpretation

Maybe they meant human sized.

Greek and Assyrian deities were depicted with wings.

I think Cherubim and Seraphim are described as having wings.

The bible mentions Angels: (a) Looking like men, (b) Not being sexed, no male or female, (c) No mention of wings. (d) Occasionally create feelings of terror. Read about visits of Angels to Abraham and Lot.

Mediaeval depictions of Angels are very like those of Nemesis and related Greek entities as well as Sumerian and Akkadian 3D relief wall sculptures.

So while there may be UFOs mentioned in the Bible, none are Angels.

UFOs may be variously electrical phenomena, metrological effects, weather or other research balloons, meteorites, mirages of distant aircraft, actual known aircraft, secret aircraft, drones, rockets etc. Or deliberate fakes. Sometimes lens or radar artefacts. You can get a bunch of UFO shaped objects on many cameras if the lens is a certain angle to the sun or some other object much brighter than the desired view.

Reports start about the time of publicity about balloons, increase with airship deployment and peak at the time of each Cinema or TV new release of related content. The reports of crypto-zoological creatures and UFOs have dropped with widespread phone cameras and dash cameras, but verified sightings of rare birds or animals (in that locality) or Meteorites have increased.

Previously rarely reported electrical phenomena include earthlight, ball lightning and sprites. Sprites are common and regularly seen now by satellites. Earthlight and ball lightning are not understood, except they are natural events.

Even one UFO being actually an Alien visitor is extremely unlikely. If a Flying Object has no explanation it's Unidentified, not automatically an Alien craft.

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave

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Re: Fortunately...

uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:

Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?

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Re: 1st amendment

Ben Shapiro or someone said, "What if it was Facebook that had been shut down rather than Parler?"

Well, I for one would rejoice at companies having to have their own websites, the drop in suicides, bullying, misinformation campaigns, scamming, copyright violations and outright lies. The reduction in personal information being harvested and sold to advertisers. Advertising budgets switching back to print and broadcast instead of Facebook.

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

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Re: Disgraceful

Militias, not private individuals. The NRA only ever quotes part of it. Also the USA didn't have a National Guard and a proper Army then.

Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union

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Re: Leave.EU are now a general-purpose right-wing

They always were.

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Re: Without the English

Malta and Ireland don't speak a Dutch English.

Amazing that England doesn't, in that Dutch William of Orange was invited in to take over from King James.

Also it was Elizabeth I of England that decided England + Wales = British. Scotland had a separate ruler then and Elizabeth only consolidated control over Ireland late in her reign.

Two wrongs don't make a right: They make a successful project sign-off

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Re: Just for reference, it's not a tripod

Or the misquote. But they have previous.

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

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Re: Careful. Slow down and THINK.

And the US armed the banana company to overthrow the republic.

Suckers for punishment, we added a crawler transporter to our Saturn V

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Re: Uh...

You'd maybe build a machine or vehicle with Meccano, but not a village. Spaceships looked rubbish in Meccano. We built SF style spaceships in the 1960s using ordinary bricks and house windows.

Also it was really slow to assemble and the work in disassembly prior to building something else was inhibiting.

But certainly no-one had as much Meccano as Lego. Also even the newsagent had the pocket money sized boxes of generic bricks. You could get Meccano by mail order, but mostly you had to go to a serious toy shop in the city and buy a set. Most people in the 1960s had only one or two Meccano sets but constantly added to the Lego.

Small box of Lego in the pocket.

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA

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Re: all Irish gas travels through the UK

Curiously there is a serious proposal for an Ireland-France electricity Interconnector. Not sure if a gas pipe that long is feasible.

The amount of direct ferry capacity between Ireland and mainland Europe has massively increased.

Now the Irish Sea ferry Wales-Ireland is to have Duty Free I wonder how many in NI and Scotland will use it?

NI businesses seem to be re-routing via Ireland and mainland Europe ferries rather than Larne-Cairnryan and then Dover-Calais.

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Re: UK already had on the books

But refused to apply them to UK controlled territories such as IoM, Channel Is, and the Overseas Territories. Also refused to put them all into UK Law. The EU agreements applied till 31st December 2020 and the UK was in violation, even for IoM and Channel Is. Also even the US has fined UK Finance operating out of the City of London.

The other alternative for Tory & Rich People led Brexit is total stupidity if it's not about Banking & Finance. If you look at the names of big donors and supporters to Brexit etc, are they people wanting the best for Joe Public, or people with Offshoring, tax avoidance, Hedge Funds and wanting Currency speculation. We won't say actual tax evasion and money laundering, but…

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Re: a boundary in the Irish Sea.

And one between GB and Gibraltar!

Imagine if UK had agreed that Irish Gov would manage all NI airports and ports?

UK Sovereignty.

Yet Spain is to manage Gibraltar's Port and Airport. They are joining Schengen, so an even closer EU relationship than NI & EU. Talk of the fence between Spain and Gibraltar being removed.

Meanwhile some companies with European or Irish HQs in Ireland have moved to Jersey. The UK isn't implementing much of the banking, tax and transparency stuff agreed by 2016, and even made law in Switzerland in 2019 and 2020. I can't see the EU adding Finance & Banking to the trade deal when the UK was already in default over Channel Is, IoM, Cayman, Bermuda and British Virgin Islands etc.

Even Singapore & Panama are going to reform. Luxembourg, Monaco etc have reformed. The Dutch-Irish Sandwich is history.

UK is set to be the Money laundering, offshoring and tax evasion capital of the world. Already diverged on EU standards. That's what UK excels at, so perhaps the goods exports to EU won't diverge.

Farage and the Brexiteers wanted to attack and split EU. Seems they are splitting the Union and also Gibraltar (which is a colony or Overseas Territory, like IoM and Channel Is, doesn't return MPs and isn't in the UK) from England and Wales.

Realme 7 5G: Parents, this is the phone you should have got your kids for Christmas

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Spoiled

Stupid obsession with minimising length. Notches and holes in screens are STUPID.

Another asks:

"Is the battery removeable? No AFAIK but would like clarification

Headphone jack? yes FAIK, but again would be nice to confirm

Dual SIM ?

SD card slot?"

Or is battery easily replaced?

It's not a proper review.

And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data

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Re: Not Free

Firefox USED to be good. Too much time making it like a Mobile only Browser and copying Google Chrome.

I doubt that Chromium has ever been a really good idea, but it's a better idea than running its mummy, Chrome.

Now if someone would forbid any/all advertising company/companies to own an OS, or a browser or any social media site?

My website has raised its anchor and set sail into the internet oceans without me

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Re: I own the domain names I use

I'd like to do that. But apparently if I don't pay the rent on them I lose access to them and some adslinger can rent them.

I don't know what the solution is, but the current way it works is crazy.

Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet

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Re: Apple Car

And then they'll sue that company that makes the one wheeled scooters.

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Apple Car

Any colour as long as it's white.

Only authorised Apple service.

Only Apple charging points.

Rounded corners.

A notch out of each window.

No sockets inside.

Only Apple tyres.

Special tools for newly invented head profile on all the bolts.

Glue anywhere possible instead of screws, poppers, clips or bolts.

No door key, use an iPhone or Apple watch.

No main key.

No buttons or knobs, only touch panels.

No steering wheel, gestures instead.

No door handles to spoil the smooth lines, use touch gestures.

Air jets instead of ugly wipers on the windscreen.

No mirrors, only cameras.

You've to buy a different version for a bigger battery pack with longer range.

Also twice as expensive as the most expensive electric cars.

Microsoft is designing its own Arm-based data-center server, PC chips – report

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Re: Could it just be a squeeze on Intel?

NT on Alpha was because DEC was important then and also writing good NT software. DEC had VAX clusters, so naturally figured out Cluster using two vanilla Servers with dual SCSI cards, external isolator if a card failed and two sets of shared SCSI drives.

Also did Intel even have a 64 bit CPU when the 64 bit NT 4.0 for DEC alpha 64 was produced?

It was a niche alternative to UNIX or DEC's OS, not serious competition for Intel.

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Re: Good Move

For Microsoft's Azure.

But for retail Laptops etc etc for windows you need x86, or else you might as well go Apple ARM or Linux ARM.

My coat used to have one of the first ARM pocket laptops, the N9210i.

This product is terrible. Can you deliver it in 20 years’ time when it becomes popular?

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Re: Why would I want a steel needle

Five boxes of a 100 each was cheaper than a Sapphire stylus. Also many people don't/didn't realise they are short life. Electronic amplification was used from the 1920s, though there was a mechanical amplifier that used compressed air. The steel needle has a high output for acoustic only players. They come in loud and quiet versions. The loud version wears out the record faster.

The acoustic amp used a pair of comb like structures. One fixed and one driven by the needle vibrations. A large electric motor supplied compressed air. You could go deaf or have bleeding ears if too close. The modern version is still used to stress test aero engine and spacecraft parts. No electronics was needed for the record player.

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Re: 12 inch CDs?

You can still buy new single play steel needles. It was used for about 60 years but even in 1930s the deluxe models playing a stack, or even able to play both sides of a stack used sapphire or diamond.

You can get a stylus for almost any pickup, except the suitcase style junk in the supermarket todat, though Chinese sellers have complete cartridges with a stylus cheaply. Also despite having a 78rpm speed, they usually don't have a suitable stylus for a 78.

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Re: I thought...

In theory DAB+ gives better quality at same bit rate.

OF COURSE they use half the bit rate to fit twice the number of channels at slightly less quality.

Regular DAB would be OK if there were x2 as many masts and 256 k bit rate. Greed has made it Garbage, though even then less good than decent FM (without excessive compression and enough masts) which could have been expanded to 76 - 108. Many sets actually do that. Some even do 64 to 108 (for old Eastern Europe band) and some even have 138 MHz to 275 MHz. A £5 converter would have added Band III and Band I to existing FM HiFi.

DAB was oversold, not enough muxes (to save money) thus stupidly low 128 k and 64K, and not enough fill in lower power masts. The SFN was hyped to save spectrum, except there was no need to save Band III spectrum and also that's only any use for National Muxes.

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Don't waste time.

Modern doors are PVC and vulnerable to any portable plumbing blow torch using disposable butane cylinders

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Re: Infra-red

I don't connect any TV set to WiFi or ethernet. I use a laptop or tablet for that. Android TV by default sends titles of discs played by HDMI and selected TV channels as well as all other usage to up to three companies.

Stony-faced Google drags Android Things behind the cowshed. Two shots ring out

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A thought

For years people made Routers, TVs and other things like eReaders just with Linux. Sony strangely went from Linux to Android for the PRS eink readers, even though the main point of Android is the touch GUI and the Java like Android apps on a VM. Sony's PRS305 and PRS505 had better more reliable software than the Android versions, starting with PRS-T1, nor did it save the product. Problem was Sony's idea was to make money from the bookstore. That's really only ever worked for Amazon.

Some stuff used VxWorks instead of Linux.

TVs adopted Android TV, to allow Android apps, but otherwise give a worse user experience and of course lack of privacy.

1) Anything with Internet and Thing in the name or description is a bad idea. Adding Android too seems daft. Any arbitrary gadget with any OS and an comms API can be controlled from iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux and Windows pretty trivially. Having Android on it makes no difference.

2) Is there any point to Android other than on OLED/LCD touch screen phones and tablets?

I've wondered does Google pay TV makers and eink reader makers and auto systems money to use Android, or is it just some manager in a company thinks it's a better idea than vanilla Linux?

Not just Microsoft: Auth turns out to be a point of failure for Google's cloud, too

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Resilence isn't enough for some things.

"Cloud services in general may be more reliable, on average, than on-premises services, but the impact when they fail is huge. It is in all of our interests if efforts to further improve their resilience succeed."

NO!

It can never be reliable enough. On premises takes out only one company. A small number of Cloud providers with monoculture is an eventual apocalypse.

This fairy tale explains why: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/716453 also Amazon, Google Playbooks, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble. Soon on paper in the local bookshop via ISBN ordering.

Also some people's own services are more reliable than the cloud.