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The Australian government already has that power since we have no bill of rights and no free speech

It’s the exorbitant markup that I have a problem with

In regards to the TF blowup his problem with that was someone selling clones of the TF536 which wasn’t open source (yet). How much he earns is irrelevant you don’t get to just steal his work

Unfortunately the market exists for insanely overpriced things for the Amiga and full of grifters who take open source hardware and sell it assembled for massive markups.

Still, there are many of us who make open source hardware for the Amiga still but it seems that commercial projects are the ones you hear about more

It costs a fortune because Apple will also replace the top case, keyboard and trackpad while they’re at it

> Length matching literally costs nothing

Well arguably it does cost some time yet is utterly pointless on an ISA card (unless your traces are 40 meters long I guess) there's plenty of pedantic things you could waste time on designing an ISA card

Why would anyone bother about controlled impedance or matched trace length on an ISA card of all things? At the speeds ISA runs at you could connect everything with wire coat hangers

Is geekbench accurate at comparing across different architectures?

Our most advanced <thing> yet!

Everyone says this then lobbies to have banks, payment companies, registrars and hosting companies to shut them down.

It is this for me - since it's so heavily documented and we have the schematics it's super easy to troubleshoot these machines and to build new expansions for them today.

One of the most touted features of the Amiga at the time was its multitasking (Though most popular didn't even have caches to worry about)

https://youtu.be/rhS7wrgfTKk

From my understanding the GBAPI card is meant to work on 500's too hence the ability to snap off the end of the edge connector (some others need -5 which isn't available on the 500 connector) but afaik the ACA500 is not friendly with autoconfig devices and I'm sure when it was designed there was an assumption that there'd be no other devices in the autoconfig chain

They'll send the DMCA to your hosting provider

Less than 16 individual loads since you're skipping 15 opcode fetches

You can get pcbs made for peanuts and soldering through hole components requires hardly any coordination at all. People who have been soldering their whole life find it easy to solder SMD because they have the coordination to do it and the temperature controlled station too.

I can solder qfps and tssop no problem but it's still easier to solder a dip package, they can go in breadboards or perf board and you can bang together a circuit without temperature controlled stations or cad software

In Aus the media is almost all either owned by Murdoch or held hostage by the government who cuts the budget any time they do honest reporting so there is definitely some value in democratic "rando" media imo

The scroll ball on the Mighty Mouse would always gunk up and was a pain in the ass to clean

Doesn't matter too much for hobby projects though, even if they go EOL there's still plenty on eBay.

"What is sane for a hobbyist project" depends on the project and the wills of the designer.

I've built a couple of 6502 based systems now and added VGA output and floppy support which probably would've been easier with an ESP32 or something but my goal was to learn how to do this the hard way.

A '816 would indeed be much better suited to access 512K of banked memory rather than banking through an 8K window but perhaps they don't think 65816 counts as retro enough, or maybe they're just masochists

The VGA output would be part of the IPMI solution for remote management, serial would be for out of band management too. Both are useful if you don't want to drive to the datacenter

If they at least did testing + contact tracing (like NZ) they probably could have saved a tonne of lives even without locking down

Not a Swede but an Aussie living in Sweden here

Sweden is at 118 deaths per million vs 53 per million in Denmark or 94.5 in the US

Australia is at 2.52 per million

Sweden has a population of something like 10 million while the greater Sydney area alone has a population of 5.98 million so population density isn't the reason why Sweden has so many more deaths.

Voluntary lockdown means that some people still stand too close at the supermarkets, still plenty of people socialising around my area as normal & different companies apparently have different ideas when it comes to work from home policies

To be fair many countries are locked down as much as Australia and are also doing worse so I'm not sure what it is that is working so well there.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Since UK isn't in Shengen don't you need to show ID on entry? Surely they record who comes in

I went to the vårdcentral drop in that morning, saw a nurse who said "come back in 4 weeks if you still have an issue" they decided me suddenly having ringing in my ears that has not stopped was not an urgent issue or a problem

Aussie in Sweden here. I had to wait 4 weeks to see a GP and then 4 more weeks for them to refer me each time they said "wait 4 weeks and come back if it's still an issue"

Public healthcare works way better in Australia, I went home and saw a doctor there, got to see a doctor straight away, got scans & referral etc within a week.

Other expats have told me I should go to Germany or the UK if I urgently need health care

The 65816 was designed to Apple specifications which explains the annoying 64K blocks etc.

IMHO multiplexed address isn't a problem as it's simple logic to fix but having to keep track of 64K segments is more painful

That's a good point, I think I'd just heard that a long time ago and not really thought about it but with much larger features it should actually be more resilient.

Cringed at the wooden block, older ICs like that are a lot more sensitive to ESD damage than modern ones, he should have covered that end of the wooden block with foil.

Cool that someone has found a working 6502 from the first batches though! I wonder how many are left out there...

Many jobs ago we had an outage caused by 2 drive failures in a Raid 5 system, that was resolved by banging the drives on the ground a couple of times before putting them back in.

If I still worked with physical servers I'd be carrying around a rubber mallet to apply "percussive maintenance"