LarryMade2

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by LarryMade2 3y ago
Google Remote Desktop works on Linux.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Most other apples give me heartburn, but Fuji are very good. I think taste may vary so that list is based on that person's opinion and taste-buds.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Also Location Location Location Places were there is big industry for a long time is good. Silicon Valley was excellent but not as much now as most hardware mfg. is outside now. Also suburbs of industry towns have a good chance. College to
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Over the decades I've been collecting - Ive noticed stuff comes in waves, when collecting is trendy (like when there's a lot of news of 6 figure vintage computer auctions) there's a lot more people buying stuff up at silly hi
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
1) eBay, that's the one place where I get a lot of old bits when needed... Secondly would be the vendor table as t local Vintage Computer event which would be a lot less than eBay prices but only available at specific times and places
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
If you have the knowledge they might hire you as a teachers assistant helping the teacher with curricula and teaching the subject.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Better UX would be being able to tell before answering if the number is spoofed or not - or a known spammer.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Maybe a smart-ish charger that can identify Samsung or other tablet for fast charging and iPad see the foreign crosstalk as a potential controller. Also could be a way to encourage sales of apple authorized chargers...
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Yeah, a couple good books and possibly some source of my older projects and I'm set. I still regularly buy reference material, not as much nowadays but its nice to have it available in a pinch.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
my terminal font is OCR-A gotta have that retro-tech style.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
It's not as easy as you imagine, especially when you want to make it "simple" like Gmail, there's a lot of work that goes into a "simple for the user" interface.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Certainly more interesting nerd circles back then - I ran a Commodore Users Group, a BBS, and enjoyed programming a bit. Tried to submit some articles to magazines in the day... no luck though. Besides the computer nerds like me, you would
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Got a Dell Mini 9 is very nice and sturdy (a lot more solid than the other netbooks of the time), crisp display, ran Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on it and it worked well. Went from 8GB storage to 16GB, wish it had a 2.5" HDD or SSD instea
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
I like it, I think it could use a night mode.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Before the internet I had bought/borrowed many books and magazines as reference material. Most of the reference is the internet now - but I still have quite a few relevant books as well as electronic documents so it may be initially a
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Connectivity - we are verging on IoT needing a 24/7 internet connection, coverage is still quite a way from that.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Non-Profits, Small to Medium Sized Businesses. Places where being on the leading edge is a bad thing, better to be near the trailing edge where things "just work" for years.
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by LarryMade2 4y ago
Years ago I helped my work compile a documents CD which had a web menu with file links to "download" the files to your computer from the CD, it worked well.
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
Looks like there are some people working on it - https://www.retroprinter.com/ This one is a raspberry pi one so far emulates text, ESCP, ESC/P2, PCL, PostScript, has a Centronics connector - which is a start (Mac seri
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
Old OS Printer Drivers - I can deal with a lot of old programs, just run them on old computers, but being able to print when classic printers are either in short supply or hard to maintain is an issue. So I would advocate for having modern
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
The root problem here is getting an efficient solution to your problem. Even if the company provides a human to talk to there is no guarantee there will be an efficient solution (satellite ISP support come to mind here.) I think lack of com
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
a) Higher resolution displays and style sheets that do not scale... b) changes in browser compatibility may require you to adjust your html declaration, doctype and meta tags as well. I've been adjusting my web pages changing the body
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
An old friend talked me into getting back to gaming (RPG) a few years ago, we still meet weekly in the mornings, just three of us presently. There were a couple larger instances but COVID squashed that for now. Our "city" is rur
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
two I have main computer direct to lefty and a switch to go between multiple PCs (including main) on righty, do a lot of tinkering, programming, and stuff so the main might be videos or docs while the secondary is being worked on or visa ve
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
Yeah I agree, many of those are using some generic CMS like WordPress and not really knowing how to fully configure it or it is not maintained. I am in a technical position in a community service agency, which is kinda a rare thing. Most r
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
Another point is the packaging and documentation, got a Linux Server in the mid 2000s came with Red Hat with a lot of nice install disks, support line, etc. Not just the distro dicks in RH's packaging, so that does add to the cost. I&#
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
I envision that and them some sort of inflatable shell insterted into it to make a quick habitat... maybe some sort of hardener is activated upon inflation or filled in between outer layers... Yeah, lunar real estate will be one of the firs
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
Comes and goes - old computers namely the Commodore 8-bits. Back in the day the golden age was the 80s (yeah ran a users group and BBS), but lately it's got a renaissance with a lot of emulators, 3rd party advanced devices like wifi m
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
Ive heard stock market, cryptocurrency is very competitive, both a challenge in hardware and software.
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by LarryMade2 5y ago
That's a tough one.. I'm not sure you will find a design article on many specific type of websites, some of them are pretty small markets. For me, when I start to design a new style website, I usually browse through various simila

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