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Obviously I've never been one for using up to date software, but I did rather lose interest in Adobe when they switched to subscriptions.

I do use a copy of CS2 though which I downloaded from the...

I've never been much of a music enthusiast so if other people also aren't, I understand where they're coming from.

I do like music, its just not something I tend to talk about or go out of my way...

We never did technical drawing at school and I don't remember us having the facilities for it. We did have some limited CAD software though which people used in various D&T subjects.

They did...

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I thought I'd make a topic about my LTO 4 tape drive since we all love storage :).

I'm doing a lot more video than I used to and keep running out of space. So I decided to get an old tape...

Well, badblocks was able to write and read the entire drive with no issues, so I think its safe to say the speed issues in the first post were just some sort of glitch. Everything seems to be working...

I swapped a few parts around in the computer and now it seems to be working fine, so I suspect either I've got a dodgy SATA cable, or it wasn't plugged in right. Although I'd have thought in that...

I've had a 4TB Seagate IronWolf HDD for about 5 years now (it has about 4 years on the power-on clock). It uses 'conventional magnetic recording' and has very good performance. Not as good as an NVME...

And here's me still remembering Commodore from when it was a brand of CD-R! :D

What's people's views on pre-built computers nowadays?

My Shuttle XPC cube, which I built in 2018, is now getting on a bit and I'm considering my options for upgrades in the future. It still works...

I think there will always be a lot of ignorance.

e.g. I know very little about games consoles. To me, a GameCube is a purple box. And an XBox is some thing that M$ made that isn't Windows/Office...

Looks like I could make a small fortune now if I sell my computer collection :D.

Nowadays, I'm going to say "Whatever is available". Modern screens do a good enough job of scaling and are generally good quality and affordable. But I do still prefer the old CRTs for older...

I thought I might as well update this thread...

I've been using Resolve for a few years now and I really like it. Its lack of codec support is an issue, but that's about it.

Its user interface...

I've no idea how much Amiga stuff is worth today but I was just thinking the other day about the time I bought an Amiga 500+ off ebay for <?10.

You'll have to forgive me for not donating at the moment as I'm a bit skint myself (hopefully I won't be later on this year...), but I couldn't help but see what the Donate page did. It sent me an...

What's everyone's preferences for computer mouses these days?

When optical mouses became a thing in the early 2000s, they were really good, and would work on just about any surface. But several...

Makes my 4TB HDD sound big!

I am hoping to upgrade my storage in the foreseeable future. I might go for a 10TB.

And there was me complaining that my 4TB IronWolf drive is getting full and needs upgrading.

I don't play games so I don't really know about consoles, but it sounds like the same situation as the Apple iPhone App Store, which is the way Google is trying to go with Android (I got an Android...

I still only have a couple of USB sticks which I bought years ago. I mostly use SD cards as I have a lot of those lying around for cameras. But it is also feasible to transfer over a network,...

I'm probably not as heavy a user as you are. My internet connection is always doing something, but it may just be IRC or internet radio.

Back in the dial up days I was never that bothered about...

On a related note I do wonder if anyone who bought her subsequent single felt better for doing so.

Just wondering, what are people's thoughts on AI programming?

I had a go with one of those AI things a while back. I asked it to write a programme in 68k Assembly to do a simple task and it did....

We had Openreach, Digital Infrastructure, and Virgin Media all install fibre in this area about three years ago.

I decided to get a 5G cellular modem instead. Speeds are variable but can be as...

AI seems to be the new buzzword of choice. I got a Motorola smartphone recently that has an "AI Camera" on it. I haven't got a clue what that means. All I know is that its not very good :).