Piracy was so prevalent on Amiga though that even if poor you could pretty easily get ahold of Devpac, although I'm pretty sure they gave a copy away on Amiga Format at some point.
I was leaning towards that llteral interpretation too, in which case there basically wasn't any Amiga equivalent. Best you could do as a "poor man" would be using the Microsoft provided BASIC (that iirc was just atrocious).
I really wanted a MicroDrive back then. I think by being unable to afford it I actually dodged a bullet 😂
In other/better news, I got hold of a pair of @adam-audio.com D3V yesterday. First impressions are that they are unreasonably good for such a small, light and portable set of speakers. 300€ well spent!
I had this horrible dream last night that #SpectrumNext KS3 has hit some really awful snag and the reason everything is a bit quiet right now is they're trying to put out the fires before telling backers how much of a shit-show has occurred... I hope my dreams don't come true 😬
Basically: being a dick. It's a shame, and you have to wonder what's the root problem because people generally aren't shitty without there being some deeper cause.
+ when you've got a decent following dunking on people for little to no reason is not cool. Something something great responsibility...
Which basically boils down to: who are the audience.
Anyone even vaguely computer literate would almost certainly know the former. If introducing the concept to complete noobs then the latter; like "this is a Graphical User Interface, shortened to Jee You Eye, or more commonly in speech: Gooey"
In the spirit of the GIF wars : Ghee You Eye
but seriously, everyone I know uses the former. The only people I could see using the latter are those that enjoy wasting time whilst communicating. Or perhaps in the 1980s on those excellent BBC programs before people knew what a GUI was!
This all feels moot anyway. Some people have claimed you can pay with crypto or cash, but I don't see that option anywhere 🤷
There's no need to know any technical details: I use my card with my name on it to pay for a service, it's beyond obvious authorities will be able to get that info and identify me if they so want.
Well of course, because the logical progression from "people should realise the obviousness of using their personal bank card for a service will make them identifiable as a user of that service" to "people should get arrested for fighting against authoritarianism in the US" is clear.
But on the topic at hand: if you can't figure out that giving a business your personally identifiable payment method may lead to you being personally identified from their records later, well...
Because a 5 year old can understand you don't drink bleach.
And who are these mythical people who can't identify bleach? I won't hold my breath because they don't exist.
Interestingly cryptographic nonce and prison slang nonce emerged at roughly the same time (mid to late 1970s)
You know what's also a bad look? Doubling down on misunderstanding what Proton have taken umbrage with.
How difficult is this to comprehend: THE HEADLINE WAS CLICKBAIT. Nothing I've read suggest they think the story itself is wrong, again: IT'S. THE. HEADLINE.
I love these kind of interactions online when I *think* I know something, but it turns out it's a bit deeper than what my surface knowledge was.
I was basically wrong with the "nonsense" derivation: thewordcounter.com/meaning-of-n...
And this is why we need "Do not drink" labels on bleach bottles.
Had a similar reaction the first time I came across that too 🤣😭💀
I think it was coined by an American, short for "nonsense" iirc. Obviously they had no clue about the British meaning.
*you're 🤦
It appears to me you have extensive domain knowledge with Reaktor. Maybe you have comparable software engineering knowledge? But unless it's just a toy project, using LLMs to write software if you have no idea what your doing ends badly.
Why is everyone jumping through as many mental hoops as possible to miss the point entirely here? The Click-bait headline is the issue. It really doesn't matter what the article says, because no-one reads them. They read the headline and grab their pitchforks. 🤦
Amazing! Kudos to @josss-sss.bsky.social
Fairly sure I have a stack of old Crash mags trapped 1500km away in my Mum's garage along with my 48k rubber key Spectrum, a C64C, two A500s and a custom paint job A1200. One day I'll manage to reunite with them before they've become trash I hope!
I used to argue that they were like the Reebok ERS for playing games like Daley Thompson's Decathlon 😆
My arse was freezing at the avant-garde hairdressers. I got a bold cut.
I love #spoonerisms
Or @h0ffman.bsky.social ?
It's beautiful underground!
Also I imagine it's not beyond the realm of impossibility that the next version of Windows could jump, and say if next year was the release it would be "Windows 27".
Crunchy Moles?
koxboxmemo604.bandcamp.com/track/crunch...
Luckily most support queries come from *very* knowledgeable users who suggest the potential fix I need to implement. 🙏 But that would change with more people using "Linux".
