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I still have mine, but I haven't pulled it out in quite a while. It was quite slow, but I remember it using it fondly and really liked the sugar UI (https://sug
by jay-anderson 9y ago
I still have mine, but I haven't pulled it out in quite a while. It was quite slow, but I remember it using it fondly and really liked the sugar UI (https://sugarlabs.org/ https://sugarlabs.org/). My kids were very young and we had fun messing around with it (there was a nifty audio application that I remember). Another thing I remember about it was the security system, bitfrost, which seemed well thought out. It also had LEDs wired into the mic and camera so you knew when they were listening/watching. I'd really like to see that in other laptops.
- klenwell 9y agoThis sums up my experience, too. My only real use for it ended up being for weekend/day trips where I didn't need to work and wanted to be quasi-offline but might want to connect to a third-party wifi system (like a motel's) for some light internet browsing. Anybody still doing anything useful or interesting with theirs?
- avhon1 9y agoOne of my friends brings either an OLPC or an Alphasmart to Burning Man every year. In one of my other comments in this thread, I mentioned that I used my olpc to animate this logo [0] and to make a patch adding a dodecahedron to the X.org utility ico [1]. [0] http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Logo#Animated_Logo http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Logo#Animated_Logo [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/ico https://linux.die.net/man/1/ico
- protomyth 9y agoI miss the Alphasmart stuff. They always felt like the spiritual successor to the TRS-80 Model 100 which was an amazing writing machine for its day.