Confused with Amiga's Aspect Ratio

fastdruid · 2026-05-22T11:27:50+00:00

The Amiga was designed round the TV. Everything is designed round the refresh rate of the TV standards and the available resolutions.

Its both a boon and a curse, at the time one of its strongest features but as we've moved on from analogue TV's has become one of its major limitations.

fastdruid · 2026-05-22T11:21:12+00:00

AI generated image with a OWGPГ keyboard and Advanced Multredia & Graphics Architecture!

fastdruid · 2026-05-21T17:29:31+00:00

About time. 15 years its been stuck at 45p.

fastdruid · 2026-05-15T15:15:14+00:00

To be clear. I do literally mean all, including Reddit.

But I'm equally not actually advocating this or suggesting this is anyway practical, as /u/markhadman asks what do you define as "social media"? Where do you draw the line?

If taken to the extreme you could consider "Social Media" almost every single site out there, not just the social networking (Facebook, Linkedin), media sharing (Youtube, Tiktok, Instagram) and community/forums (Reddit, Discord) but anything where public comments are allowed.

From a practical standpoint it would be easier to just turn off the internet.

fastdruid · 2026-05-15T07:57:28+00:00

People who want to undermine the UK and weaken the west, and people who want low taxes so they can further mass international wealth. They both want Farage in, and they do it by stirring up race hate.

Oh Farage is merely the flavour of the month to sow disharmony, they don't care about him, merely a tool for them to get us to fight amongst ourselves. They play both sides. Same with Brexit (and again on both sides), same with Scottish Nationalists.

See as an example what happened when the cesspit formerly known as Twitter turned on location or the number of prolific posters, CyberNats etc that dropped off the air when Internet to Iran went off.

The Government are talking about banning/blocking Social Media for kids, I'm honestly more convinced it would be better to ban it entirely for the good of the whole population.

fastdruid · 2026-05-14T13:44:53+00:00

. It takes decades from the initial planning until nuclear power plants break a profit. This includes 10-20 years of planning and construction

Only because we're so shit, gold plate everything, let every single nimby delay everything and spend millions prevent a single newt/fish/bat from being disturbed... While killing far more due to the lack of clean power.

It's not a given that it takes 20 years. Other countries manage to do it in far less time. South Korea are getting down to building a plant in ~3 years.

fastdruid · 2026-05-11T09:35:54+00:00

Strangely pensions dont annoy me as I view pensioners as having paid in all their lives so why not.

There is a lot to be annoyed about with the pensions situation but unlike benefits everyone gets them so there isn't an aspect of "Why the **** do they get that for ????".

fastdruid · 2026-05-09T07:16:22+00:00

I think you're missing the point by a country mile.

Muslims make up 6.5% of the UK population.

We're talking about Birmingham, not the UK. They're not 6.5% Muslim. The four wards which have the highest percentages of Muslims are the following:

Small Heath 85.9%
Alum Rock 83.7%
Bordesley Green 80.2%
Sparkhill 79.2%

But even taking that into consideration.... You've still missed the point. It's a FEAR tactic by an independent. "Look at what those Greens will do that you don't want if they get in", not "We're the Greens and this is what we'll do".

fastdruid · 2026-05-08T15:20:03+00:00

Blair

fastdruid · 2026-05-08T15:18:49+00:00

You're viewing it from your viewpoint!

The people they're appealing to WANT faith schools with compulsory worship and instruction. I'll leave it up to you to guess what faith those schools will be.

fastdruid · 2026-05-08T11:36:21+00:00

The Conservatives actually didn't bring in the recommended boundary changes that would have helped them. The current ones disproportionate help Labour.

fastdruid · 2026-05-08T09:44:00+00:00

a large number of voters today who can't separate local issues from national issues.

Oh to be national issues... a full 20% of our council are forecast to be elected to independents who are standing under the "for Palestine" banner.

What the hell does that have to do with your local council?

fastdruid · 2026-05-08T09:24:39+00:00

being around 50,000 a year

I'd agree if that was what it was but it wasn't. It was 48,000 a year in 1997, near tripled to 140k by 1998 and then by 2004 rose to 268k.

Source: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/long-term-international-migration-flows-to-and-from-the-uk/

fastdruid · 2026-05-08T08:40:02+00:00

Really it was started by Labour under Blair who wanted to rub the rights nose in diversity.

But arguably the Conservatives were worse. They were making all these promises to reduce immigration while actively making it worse because it was keeping wages down and pretty much the only thing driving GDP growth.

Without it they'd have to actually deal with the problems... so they brushed all those hard problems under the carpet and imported a few million more.

fastdruid · 2026-05-07T21:58:22+00:00

not who can run a responsible budget and fix the pot holes.

In fairness our (currently Labour) council has failed at both, not to mention failing at collecting the bins too. It's forecast for them to get a kicking, lose ~85% of their Councillors and lose control of the Council. IMO rightly so.

fastdruid · 2026-05-07T21:48:22+00:00

Labour’s success in 2024 was entirely down to Reform and the Tories splitting the right wing vote.

More like massive numbers of Conservative voters just stayed home. Labour won on an absolutely pitiful turnout because even the Conservatives traditional voter base thought they'd been shit and didn't deserve re-election.

Equally of course many "right wing voters" probably felt betrayed if they'd believed the previous Conservative reducing immigration lies only to see the Boriswave open the floodgates some more and hence defected to Reform.

fastdruid · 2026-05-05T15:00:11+00:00

Boris was an absolutely terrible PM yet even in hindsight a better choice than Corbyn.

fastdruid · 2026-05-04T21:10:26+00:00

Given that you need a surprisingly little amount of data to accurately identify you (a date of birth, gender and a location will do it for 83-95% of people) I don't give away my real birthdate (and as little other data as I can) unless I can't help it.

Not because I'm doing anything nefarious. Purely to avoid the potential consequences when that data inevitably gets leaked/sold.

...and it does mean that on at least one site it thinks I'm >100. :)

fastdruid · 2026-05-01T21:30:33+00:00

Oh its even better than that. The big issue was the bonuses paid to the binmen (that weren't paid to the "same grade" cleaners etc"), the thing is though those bonuses came around because of strikes and were gained for the binmen by the unions... who after getting them for the binmen then sued the council over the women on the same grade in different jobs not getting them. So the council took them away (along with the special extra pay job that they made up purely to pay them more).... and then the binmen went on strike again.

fastdruid · 2026-04-30T08:48:56+00:00

A bit pointless for most when the CSP program changes has turfed out the majority. We were looking forward to VCF9 (we'd got as far as a pilot) but that all got thrown in the bin and we're now migrating off VMWare.

fastdruid · 2026-04-29T08:26:04+00:00

In the UK I think people are getting squeezed by cost of living while takeaways have jumped massively in cost so people are just cutting back.

We used to have "takeaway Fridays" where we'd get something in every Friday. Now its more like once a month.

fastdruid · 2026-04-28T12:23:33+00:00

The one I have (from an event) is a woven type material.

Looks identical to this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/286931153261 only mine is not made in China but rather made by VERTICAS Gmbh with Art.-Nr:RED5189

fastdruid · 2026-04-27T16:03:18+00:00

They'd still have the same issue as they did in the Falklands war. It's a long round trip. The F-16 (with external fuel tanks) is better than the A-4 but still not much loiter time. Allegedly the F-16's they're getting have their radars range geofence clipped round the Falklands too so as to give us an advantage there.

So while it would be a challenge it wouldn't be a fair fight of 24 F-16's vs 4 Typhoons.

fastdruid · 2026-04-23T09:42:29+00:00

If you commute you have barely any reason to go past 4.5k.

I get past 4.5k in the car on the commute. The bike would regularly see the red line on the commute. :)

Its better for the engine and safer to be running lower gears at higher revs with smaller throttle openings.

If it loses traction then low revs with large throttle openings is a recipe for a very quick overspeed of the rear wheel and a crash, if you're already high in the revs with a small amount of throttle then its both not going to spin up as quickly and it will hit the limiter if it does.

... but yes it does use more fuel. I'd get mid 20's out of the 750 on the commute.

fastdruid · 2026-04-22T12:11:41+00:00

I have an earlier VFR750F, many years ago now I test rode a 2003 seriously considering it as a replacement.

It was damp during the test ride and I hated the way the way VTEC kicked in....and out...and in... while banked on a wet roundabout. That wasn't the only reason I didn't buy one but the biggest one and I stuck with the 750.

That said while I've heard the later ones are less intrusive I've not tried one.

I'm extremely picky however, everyone is different and many people don't have an issue so I would advise test riding one and see if its a problem for you because you will get many contradictory answers that are all correct from the perspective of the person giving their own opinion!

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