DavidGA
@DavidGA@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Stewart Cheifet, PBS host of Computer Chronicles who broadcast the PC revolution, dies at 87 1 week ago:
Well I made that too! And it’s only a few days old.
- Comment on Stewart Cheifet, PBS host of Computer Chronicles who broadcast the PC revolution, dies at 87 1 week ago:
We’ve turned his website into a memorial.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 1 month ago:
And yet you still used the horribly misleading headline as the post title. Good job.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Pemdas, USA. Bodmas, UK.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Amen. And it fits on a floppy disk.
- Comment on If people don't trust climate science, how will we ever get them to change? 3 months ago:
You can’t reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
- Comment on Parents fined as daughter absent nearly 200 times from Stoke-on-Trent school 3 months ago:
I understand why this is local news but I can’t think of a good reason why this is worth sharing here.
- Comment on Green MP spots banned cluster bombs at London arms fair 4 months ago:
I am downvoting you for bitching about downvotes.
Just to be clear.
- Comment on Former MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace launches legal action against BBC 4 months ago:
Buttery Biscuit Case.
- Comment on New memory unlocked! Chips Challenge 5 months ago:
The Lynx version is the original, from which all others were ported. The Amiga version is particularly good.
- Comment on The Analogue 3D has been delayed yet again 5 months ago:
But only a very short delay.
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 6 months ago:
A generation ago.
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 8 months ago:
RIP Peter David, who died yesterday.
- Comment on Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government 8 months ago:
Fun fact. He composed the Windows 95 chime on a Mac, and has stated that he’s never used Windows.
- Comment on Every single UK citizen should carefully read this article. It reveals how political power really works in Britain. 8 months ago:
I urge you to describe the article in the title instead of writing clickbait there.
- Comment on Jellybean Mac Hides Modern PC 8 months ago:
CRT removal is a hate crime. There’s nothing special about this. Just an unimaginative casemod.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 9 months ago:
Pike. The new one.
It’s the hair.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 9 months ago:
Apple is not a monopoly, nor the dominant manufacturer of smartphones. They have the freedom to do these things because you don’t have to buy an iPhone.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 11 months ago:
This was an excuse to allow Voyager to use the holodeck, which would have been an extravagant waste of power otherwise.
The Enterprise D holodeck ran from ships power, as shown in “Booby Trap”.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 11 months ago:
Magnets are snake oil. They have no effect on the human body. Don’t waste your money.
- Comment on Oddware: Cadet PC Radio AM/FM tuner card with RDS 11 months ago:
Amazing that the author of the drivers showed up in the comments.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 11 months ago:
By banning and blocking all VPN providers not based in Italy.
- Comment on Australia doesnt exsist 1 year ago:
They all do.
- Comment on Do you leave your consoles on? 1 year ago:
You know, when I quit Reddit I hoped I’d see less of this kind of hostile, insulting comment.