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by isr 3y ago
Can confirm, as my first Psion was the Paion II, a calculator formfactor device with full keyboard and OPL programming language. My later Psion 5 ended up spending most of its time running a zx spectrum emulator - go figure :-)
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by isr 3y ago
Not to overly denigrate some of the more pessimistic reply here, I have to say that my Gemini was easily one of the best computers (not just phone) I ever had. The keyboard was fantastic (better than the much larger GPD Pocket 1 that I also
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by isr 4y ago
A bit late to this party, but you are woefully, badly misinformed as to what ChromeOS is, and what you can run on it. Well over a decade ago, I was running a full suite of gnu-linux devtools, natively, within chromeos. You don't even n
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by isr 4y ago
Umm, Planet Computer's Gemini anyone? Easily the most heavily used & abused phone I've ever had. Still waiting for my (long overdue) Astro Slide to ship ...
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by isr 4y ago
(you probably know this and were simplifying, but for the benefit of others who may not ...) Its a filesystem, not an archive. So its contents aren't extracted anywhere on your drives. It stays within the appimage. The squashfs fs used
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by isr 4y ago
A couple of suggestions: - the xonsh (a full-featured unix shell, in python) kernel with jupyter - the acme editor, using `win` to give you a dumb terminal access to your shell (or indeed any repl). As well as being a shell/repl, you c
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by isr 4y ago
There actually was a split buckling-spring keyboard made by IBM back in the day. Drool over this: https://youtu.be/oNnW4wED4uU ;-)
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by isr 4y ago
Ah, I see where you're coming from. Coincidentally, I've been doing a deep dive into offline-first, mesh & p2p related projects (nncp, yggdrasil, etc). Would be interesting to see a linux distro with builtin plumbing for such
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by isr 4y ago
Actually, in many ways, what you're asking for in your 2nd paragraph is pretty much what chrome os is. BTW, chrome os is actually gentoo linux under the hood (with the portage pkg manager stripped out at the end). At one time, there wa
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by isr 4y ago
Actually, I don't believe this is accurate. There is a single "desktop" user on chrome os - 'chronos'. Even when you login with different accounts, everything is still running as chronos (id 1000). What happens is t
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by isr 4y ago
Well, as long as we're sharing personal anecdotes as absolute judgements, then allow me to throw my own hat into the ring. I have never had a problem with suspend, hibernate, nor excessive battery drain (beyond what the hardware should
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by isr 4y ago
huh? That makes no sense to me (I must be missing something here). 'perform' is indeed a msg. The integer object doesn't need a 'perform' method in order to do something with that call. Its entirely up to each objec
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by isr 4y ago
Well Selim, assuming you're not trolling, then I would suggest that you look for the youtube channels of established respected journalists, to get a flavour of whats happening currently. There is no chance of speaking truth on the offi
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by isr 4y ago
I don't think you quite understand what the term "popular" actually means. "Rabid", in the context that you're using it, applies really well to those who keep trying to push a consistent narrative of: - nothing
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by isr 4y ago
Quite literally hundreds of pieces of investigative journalism, done by some of the most respected true jounalists in Pakistan, each of whom have followings/viewership numbering in the MILLIONS. Spread across various platforms, from ca
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by isr 4y ago
I'm not sure who you are, and what you're responding to. Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment? My post was in reply to the outright lies pushed by asdajksah2123. But in response to this "gem" of yours later in this t
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by isr 4y ago
I know this kind of reply may trigger a harsh response from HN mods, but this really needs to be said. You are lying through your teeth. The plain facts, in no particular order: 1. Imran Khan's party had much larger support in 2013 ele
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by isr 4y ago
Yes, you should. Then you wouldn't be propagating such nonsense. Not only are Muslims officially (by gov stats) in the majority, it is also widely known and commonly accepted that if a modern, true census was to be done today, it would
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by isr 4y ago
> Lebanon is not even a Muslim majority country Excuse me? Perhaps you'd like to go to Lebanon and explain that to them. They could do with a good laugh in such destitute times
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by isr 4y ago
As someone who also cut his teeth using books like these (vic-20, with an ENORMOUS 8k ram expansion cartridge - how does one even begin to use all of that massive 11.5k ram? haha), the only modern book which comes to recreating that feel is
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by isr 4y ago
Well, if you want to build a commercial product using dwarfs, you could always (shock, horror) contact the dev and *pay* him to license it to you under a bsd-like license (or whatever). (the dwarfs dev would have to work it out amongst all
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by isr 5y ago
Isn't that the "interface" which djb's daemontools, runit, and later s6 also promotes? Anyway, that question was mostly rhetorical. You don't want to get into the midst of "yet another systemd flamewar" th
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by isr 5y ago
> So, they're doing exactly the same thing as Debian is doing on the default merged configuration ? No. * https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html * https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glanc
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by isr 5y ago
> I could envision a WM that allows you to group windows together into tabs or sub-windows. Fluxbox (fork from blackbox, a sibling/cousin to openbox) did this over 20 years ago ...
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by isr 5y ago
Sigh ... gobolinux solved this quite elegantly over 20 years ago, and to this day most folks don't quite grok how simple and elegant their solution was.
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by isr 5y ago
> Ruby might superficially syntactically look like Smalltalk in a few places, but the actual semantics of the language and the overall toolset are nothing alike. As someone who has used cuis smalltalk (a squeak fork), and ruby, quite ext
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by isr 5y ago
fluxbox ;-)
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by isr 5y ago
Err, while squeakjs is impressive (and I have spent quite a while doodling within it, using old squeak images, and current cuis images), one cannot in good conscience call it "fast". In fact, if keeping one eye on the truth, then
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by isr 5y ago
Heavily leaned on his gnu-screen config tips & howto's, 15+ years ago. His work probably helped many (judging by how comprehensive his site was). Sorry to hear this. RIP.
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by isr 5y ago
It's been a while since I've actively used tiddlywiki, so I don't have actual code snippets at hand - but extracting "tiddlers" should be the least of your concerns (at least, that was my experience when I used it).

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