VinceMH

For me, nine times out of ten the YouTube app on one of my TVs plays its start up sound through the TV speaker, even if:

* I have headphones plugged in
* I have disabled the speakers (audio output = headphones only) in the TV settings

* And even if I hit mute before launching it.

No. Let ME eat cake!

Real life example of the truth in this from Tuesday: I was sat at my desk, confused by some data on my screen, when someone came over with a piece of cake for me. She commented about the change in my expression, which immediately went from "WTF is going on, this makes no sense 🫤" to "Oooh, cake! 😃"

Indeed.

You can use the search with a term like 'horror' - but that's a crap way to browse, because you have to punch through to each title for the details.

And probably doesn't give you all the results - Netflix, like everyone else, has a terrible search.

TBF, that is ALL action movies, I suppose. Or arguably all movies.

@vincemh.bsky.social From the April 1998 issue of Acorn User.

Nice find.

If I ever finish off my spreadsheet of these events and do something with it, little things like that will have to be included.

I'm off to post the same thing on Twitter now because I can @ them. Not that it'll change anything, but WTH. 🤷‍♂️

(Bah fucking humbug. Grr.)

What I really want is to be able to select a proper category (eg horror), possibly a second (eg comedy), then have all the films listed with sorting options - default to alphabetical (but correctly handle 'the'), with duration, year, whatever, as alternatives.

Not carefully curated arse cakes.

Just looked at Netflix for the first time in a while. The categories they show have always been annoying, it's never shown all possible categories, etc., but now it's even shittier.

"Action movies with a hint of this"

"Thriller movies with a hint of that"

Just fuck off with that bollocks.

Didn't say anything about living in it*. (Though come the apocalypse, it might be an option).

* For a start, by the time my belongings are in it there'd be no room for me.

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Ooooh.

Last time one appeared on my radar, it was (IIRC) in the Cotswolds. This one is walking distance from home.

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But nope. I will not be tempted by a silly, frivolous thing.

'the hell? it's 4:36am... lol anyway, new UltimaVM PUSH/POP register range fast memory copy is done and there is also a little "twist" POP supports both strick LIFO (like the JVM) and natural order (like the ARM). Had to finish so late, because I had a hell of a busy day at work... Need some sleep!

Generating the landscape - Lander on the Acorn Archimedes A deep dive into generating the 3D landscape in Lander on the Acorn Archimedes

So that's how it worked! Very clever.

My parents' dog helping at work by making the most of the small amoung of sunlight she found.

London Show 2025 - just four weeks to go Today is Saturday, 27th September, 2025, and I've scheduled this post to appear at 11:00am - which means at the time this article appears it will be precisely f

The RISC OS London Show is now just under four weeks away! Preview from RISCOSitory - www.riscository.com/2025/london-...

For those who missed it, Gavin's excellent talk can now be watched here youtu.be/NmZSXjij7x4

"Hello home, hello own bed, haven't seen much of you this month."

I've been working on Ovation Pro to add extra scaling options to the picture proxy setting. For those who attended my @rougol.bsky.social talk, I explained the use of proxy images. Base/16, Base/32 & Base/64 now offer even smaller proxies, making for smaller document sizes.
#OvationPro #RISC_OS #DTP

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip | Discussion

Yes. When I last checked, the two monitors I sent back in March (the day I set off to the Lake District, immediately before the RISC OS North show) are still at the drop off point.

I chased them for a refund in April, which they gave me the same day.

Orion Patrol Self-published in 2025

Holy moly - someone's only gone and made David Braben's Zarch/Virus for the BBC Micro!

Angus Hughes has effectively achieved the impossible - it has all of the speed of the Archimedes original.

Stunning!

#retrogaming #bbcmicro #8bit

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YouTube video by AMCOG RISC OS London Show 2025

The London RISC OS Show will return on 25th October! @rougol.bsky.social
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Haven't thought about it before, but I think I'd prefer some kind of ejector seat to an airbag.

Not for practical reasons - because it simply wouldn't be. 😂

The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200 - Raspberry Pi A complete desktop PC built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for high performance under heavy load.

Grr. Now do the 400 with this keyboard... the current one is the thing I like least about it.

Pi500+ launched...

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There is at least one other industry I can think of that has a fixed charge AND unit charges, although it's only B2B (and small fry - like me - can usually get fixed charges only, thank Cthulhu!)

Business banking - a fixed monthly fee, AND per-transaction charges.

See also merchant card services.

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.

Without an ARM, there'd be no RISC OS! Modular, compact and quick. #Retro #AcornComputers #OpenSource #RISCOS #London #Show #October
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YouTube video by AMCOG RISC OS London Show 2025

The #RISC_OS #London Show is creeping closer - 25th October.

Preview vid courtesy of Tony Bartram/Amcog Games

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAFZ...

For anyone wondering why no online meet up next month, it's because there's a physical show going on instead! Saturday 25th October, Harrow, NW London
www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk