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by marttt 10mo ago
This appears to be new to me. Very interesting, many thanks for sharing!
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by marttt 10mo ago
What's the size of your "diskless" NetBSD installation, and how fast does it boot? As compared to TC, the "out of the box" NetBSD images contain many things I wouldn't need, so customizing it has been a recurri
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by marttt 10mo ago
I like using old hardware, and Tiny Core was my daily driver for 5+ years on a Thinkpad T42 (died recently) and Dell Mini 9 (still working). I tried other distros on those machines, but eventually always came back to TC. RAM-booting makes t
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by marttt 11mo ago
See also: PDOS (Public Domain Operating System) https://www.pdos.org/ -- a single-person project with a remarkably stream-of-concsiousness-style webpage. Not sure how well 'geniuine' DOS software works on this sys
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by marttt 11mo ago
+1. I set up Fedora, openSUSE and later Arch for our son (then 10-11yo). He became instantly curious about typing those strange words in terminal (unix heritage all the way :), started to check internet availability with 'ping' by
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by marttt 11mo ago
Ha, I just recently had uBlock Origin remove all HTML elements on news sites that 1) link to comments (in my country this is usually in the form of comment count right after the headline - and typically the comments are printed in red , ug
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Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices [pdf](computingwithinlimits.org)
2 points by marttt 1y ago|0 comments
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by marttt 1y ago
Thought about Non immediately, but I figured it must have (had) about 2 other users amongst HNers, though. :) Nice to see it mentioned. I used it quite a bit to produce radio shows for my country's public broadcasting. Because Non&#x27
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by marttt 1y ago
The https://udm14.com/ flavor of Google is quite usable, though, esp with notable operators like inurl:this-or-that . But, all in all, yeah, gimme back vanilla Google search from 2008-2010 or so. Back then it was definitel
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by marttt 1y ago
I literally remember one of my elderly relatives pulling out a tooth at home with a thread tied around a door handle as if this was nothing special. DIY all the way! Early 1990s, former Soviet Union rural-or-so area. As of today, we have mo
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by marttt 1y ago
BTW, its FreeDOS version is still being updated fairly frequently. :) Current version 2.24 is from May 2024.
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by marttt 1y ago
+1, structural regular expressions are a joy to use. https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pd... Also interesting, with other derivates of ed -- LineEditorFamily in the TextEditors Wiki: https
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by marttt 1y ago
This seems related to "ventilated prose", as invented by Buckminster Fuller: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose/ I can confirm that while this technique feels odd at fir
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by marttt 1y ago
Tangential, but at least for the minimalism-inclined, Rebol's inventor Carl Sassenrath might be an interesting guy: https://sassenrath.com/computing.html Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by marttt 1y ago
+1, long time follower of nmh's work. His books are brief and concise, but carry a peculiar "something", a precision of expression etc that is hard to put into words - but can often be noticed in long-time practicioners of so
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by marttt 1y ago
IIRC, in Winter Challenge's bobsled, you could make the sleigh go really fast and then deliberately crash by letting it "jump" over the outer edge of the track into nothingness. We always did this; lots of fun. I think anothe
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by marttt 1y ago
Yeah, it has got me "in the zone" for writing many times. On a side note, I also like the "click" when I close the lid on my T42. Mentally balancing for sure :). I bought a used P50 for our son, and while it's allri
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by marttt 1y ago
> More like a Jungian archetype. Honest, virtuous and sturdy. +1, comparison of the day for sure!
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by marttt 1y ago
On my trusty T42 (bought ~10 years ago for about 30 euros) the GPU finally died last winter (heavy, unreadable screen flicker during every slightly more intensive task). It has an IPS panel which itself still seems to be in order, though. L
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by marttt 1y ago
> Don't surround yourself with people who dislike people who take an interest in obscure things Took me about two decades to really understand and accept this -- or, act accordingly in practice. Haters gonna hate, just do your thing
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by marttt 1y ago
> Before Firefox 3.6 (probably that version), Firefox was my most used browser, but after that version, Firefox started getting slower and more buggy. Haha, I remember that same feeling, with 3.6 being "peak" Firefox back in th
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An Inferno Diary(dboddie.gitlab.io)
1 points by marttt 1y ago|0 comments
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by marttt 1y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what's your exact setup? Fanless laptop (having read many of your previous comments - and found them very inspring -, I'm aware of your modest/text-only needs) or something really spartan like
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by marttt 1y ago
Easy-peasy!
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by marttt 1y ago
I've long quit using vim on a daily basis, but the "how to exit Vim?" jokes are still somehow funny. A recent encounter was an old tweet by @iamdeveloper: "I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I
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by marttt 1y ago
BTW, its FreeDOS version is still being updated fairly frequently :) -- https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin/files/freedos...
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by marttt 1y ago
Alternatively, Jeff Duntemann just released new edition of "FreePascal from Square One", free PDF: https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=5399
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Narva castle facing Russia hangs Putin-Hitler banner on Russia's 'Victory Day'(news.err.ee)
2 points by marttt 1y ago|2 comments
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by marttt 1y ago
Ardour has really good default settings. Another, maybe forgotten one is Wavosaur on Windows [1]. Great modularity, one can quickly remove cruft that's not needed, or add a lot of data on waveforms when necessary. I admit being a fan o
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by marttt 2y ago
Thanks very much for your initial post, very interesting data indeed. My Sony PRS-T1 has been in non-stop daily use since I bought it new in early 2012. It shows no significant signs of tiredness, even the battery is still decent. I've

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