I wish it was only cars, but unfortunately this decay in-the-name-of-progress is in everything nowadays.
Readit Newsiefbr14 commented on Why I'll Never Drive a Modern Car Again [video] youtube.com/watch?v=lEE2-... · Posted by u/f311a
Very good documentary about Donald Bickler made by his son.
Also about olivetti: Olivetti & the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMxcrN90PE
iefbr14 commented on The first new compass since 1936 youtube.com/watch?v=eiDhb... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
In the demo there is a cut in the video where the needle abrubtly stops. The cut is visible because the lighting is slightly different.
iefbr14 commented on Could an electric blanket save you £4k this winter? freelanceinformer.com/cos... · Posted by u/tiberius_p
The damage from a frozen water line in your house can be a lot more than $4000.
We had them when I was still a kid in the sixties and I did not like it at all. Jumping in a warm bed is nice but leaving it on during the night makes you wake up all sweaty in the middle of the night. Even on the lowest setting.
iefbr14 commented on $5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop exclav.es/2025/08/03/dina... · Posted by u/gsf_emergency_6
Nice, however the mentioned github link ( https://github.com/loganwilliams/passive-acoustic-listening ) does not exist (anymore?).
iefbr14 commented on Take a walking tour of the Gothenburg Radio Museum radiomuseet.se/gor-en-run... · Posted by u/belter
Nice, but the left-right movement goes opposite to my intuition.
iefbr14 commented on 52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history theregister.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
For doing what?
For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.
iefbr14 commented on The Windows 7 Renaissance? StatCounter shows surge in usage · Posted by u/Stasshe
It is probably just a rise in the number of automated scrapers/bots that use a windows 7-like user agent.
(My newest machine is now running Linux.)