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That's because I understand it is not E-ink (rotating multi-hued balls), but monochrome/greyscale LCD with a reflective back layer. Liliputing reports: Display Ninja: IGZO versus IPS Android Authority: Display technology explained: A-Si, LTPS, amorphous IGZO, and beyond Profolus: IGZO Display...

The Pyra is still absolutely brilliant. But the long development period means that things have moved on a bit: USB-C; and linux has pretty much transitioned to 64-bit, which makes life difficult for wanting to use a mainstream web-browser (for example). A physical keyboard (not Bluetooth) is...

Man at Silver Wedding anniversary, addressing the guests on the topic of marital harmony: "Well, I was lucky enough to marry a woman who was always right."

Q: Why do the indigenous bears in the Arctic get lost when you give them their GNSS Latitude and Longitude co-ordinates? A: . Q: Why don't bears in the Arctic eat penguins? A: . An Arctic bear and a narwhal are talking about going to a bar to cheer up the penniless friend of the narwhal, a...

Yes. A cause of great disappointment. Not only were the buildings not gratis, but neither were the beverages that were available within the building. Another example of English overloading the word 'free' with multiple distinct meanings: e.g. libre and gratis*. Given how much vocabulary English...

Bittersweet: As a child, when we went on road-journeys, we would reasonably frequently go past buildings labelled prominently with the term "Free House". I always wondered why we couldn't just go and live in one of them, because most of them looked bigger and nicer than the house my family lived in.

I'm more afraid of the legions of elves, commanded by Santa von Clausewitz.

Some of them go on to specialise in panto-mime. -Oh no they don't! Oh yes they do!

What’s the most frustrating part about being a chicken farmer? (This is the bad joke thread, isn't it?)

No, the correct last answer to the additional question Git1 posed is 'a doe'. Doh!. The correct last question is "What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs, and no genitalia?" I guess this is a pull request on the fork. Further bad jokes of the same ilk: What do you call a deaf elephant...

What do you call a deer with no eyes? - No idea. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? -Still no idea, What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs, and no ears? -Anything you like, it can't hear you!

Arr. It be after June this year, innit?

I am almost terminally cynical, so I apologise if I offend anyone with these remarks. The concepts described are probably novel to the young people encountering/rediscovering them for the first time. "It's new because I've never seen it before." There is also the problem of people regarding...

Computers don't change at all. New designs come along, but there are plenty of old ones still working, sometimes decades after their introduction. There's a huge amount of 'legacy' equipment out there still doing its job - sometimes not always a good idea, but industrial control stuff tends to...

Thanks for the thoughtful and detailed reply. I had simply forgotten about signing non-encrypted firmware. My apologies. I get rather irritated about people talking about Secure Boot, as it is usually used as a way of securing the computer against the person who bought the hardware. And, there...

For those that want a boot of the Raspberry Pi 5 without binary blobs, there's a slightly confusing post from Gordon Hollingworth (Director of Software Engineering at Raspberry Pi) at Raspberry Pi: News: Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! : comment 1594066 I guess that in principle, if it is not...

I sympathize with your viewpoint. There isn't a great history for that. A 'great power' invaded a neighbouring country back in 1864, and annexed a great deal of land. 55 years later, after the successor state to the great power lost a large war, there were several referendums (plebiscites) in...

Ummm - as far as I remember, 2016 didn't have 15 months. It was a standard year.

From the reports of multiple explosions, I suspect that explosions were set off under the bridge near to a pier to lift the spans off the supports. The video on the BBC website (which the BBC make deliberately difficult to link to*) taken from a passing train shows one end of one road span...

Thank you kindly.