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New comment by micv in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

micv — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:54:57 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

micv — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:44:16 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

micv — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:45:08 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Building my childhood dream PC"

micv — Sun, 18 May 2025 20:25:32 +0000

It was alright in Quake, as I recall, but it really didn't cope at all well with Quake 2 and Jedi Knight.

New comment by micv in "Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape"

micv — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:50:05 +0000

> 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!

New comment by micv in "Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower"

micv — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:22:05 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "X CEO Says Platform Should Turn Profit in 2024"

micv — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:21:50 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency"

micv — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:54:47 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today"

micv — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:52:26 +0000

Yeah. That's where I've gone for all my Amiga nostalgia needs over the years.

New comment by micv in "The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today"

micv — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:25:11 +0000

I've seen them listed anywhere between one and several thousand depending on condition, spec, accessories, etc.

New comment by micv in "The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today"

micv — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:42:54 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today"

micv — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:06:34 +0000

If you still have that A4000 it's worth real money now to the retro crowd.

New comment by micv in "Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted"

micv — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:58:43 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing"

micv — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:11:56 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Amiga Forever"

micv — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:33:19 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Mikhail Gorbachev has died"

micv — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:38:43 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices"

micv — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:19:16 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'collapsed under my feet'"

micv — Thu, 19 May 2022 18:00:32 +0000

The US government is also spending massive amounts of healthcare without actually delivering healthcare to way too many people. The whole system is bonkers.

New comment by micv in "How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?"

micv — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:36:21 +0000

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.

New comment by micv in "Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-House Armv9 Server Chip"

micv — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:57:53 +0000

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.