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Impossible to recommend without knowing what works for you. For a one-stop-shop, try SOMA.FM (https://somafm.com/) for a great variety of well-vetted choons in multople genres.

After that, one can build up a list of hundreds of net radio stations in VLC and find one that works for you -today-.


Any business that won't accept cash payments is too dumb to patronize.

This problem threatens more than just business as usual. In the past, intense geomagnetic storms have caused big transformers to explode. Without a backup transformer supply, entire regions may face long-term power outages.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12303307/


I was surprised to -not- see The_Transactor, which was full of details on how to get your C64 to boldly go where no BASIC type-ins had gone before.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120519135652/http://www.bombja...


I grew up in Texas. I don't think I saw a copy of the Transactor when I was a kid. Or maybe I did and it just didn't register.

And don't take this the wrong way... this is more of a personal remembrance of times past. I'm not throwing shade by not including specific publications. I would love to read a blurb about your memories about the Transactor.

I'm sort of realizing BYTE and Omni were "totems" of my friends group. We knew someone was in our "in group" when we saw them reading them. There's probably a decent master's thesis here for Anthropology grad students.


I'm reminded of my surprise when my Mac's 'super' (their name) floppy drive quit working because the CPU fan was pulling air through it all day. Post 90-day warranty, the replacement cost at the time was 1/5 of what the machine cost.

IMO, Apple hardware was never the company's strong point. And they refused to supply individual replacement parts.


Same here. And when you encourage students to ask good questions, that goes double ... you're forcedd to see how important their new perspectives are, and to create your own!

Always good to learn more about the timeline of techniques lost in the mists of time. Some of the finest works of art were 'coded' in fibers, much more durable that most other media!

Including, inasmuch as you can consider it fine art, the ROM for the Apollo onboard computer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

> This was the same before, if you had a novel idea and make a product out of it others follow.

March 20, 1926: Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer Kalman Tihanyi applies for his first patent for a fully electronic television system. Tihanyi's ideas are so essential that, in 1934, RCA is required to buy his patents.

Kalman who ?


Looks like we're heading toward some resolution to the old problem 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'. Born in a world with plenty of laws, the jeopardy that goes with them, and no easy and reliable resources, that would certainly be welcome.


I don't think for a minute that this stuff is anything new ... to the contrary. I think what is new is that, every time they step in it, the whole world now quickly knows.


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