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by soapdog 6y ago
Charles, Duracell sells new batteries for laptops. That is how I got a brand new battery for my Thinkpad x220. I just checked and they got batteries for iBook G4: https://www.duracelldirect.co.uk/laptop-notebook/apple&#
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by soapdog 6y ago
Check the link I posted on the parent comment, the refresh rate is not bad at all.
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by soapdog 6y ago
I don't have first hand experience with eReaders with pen digitizers. I've played with some devices owned by friends but I never had a device like that, which is quite odd considering I was a Apple Newton user, then iPAQ, and now
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by soapdog 6y ago
I know that the goodereader.com store has it and they ship world wide. I'm not affiliated with them and am considering buying one myself.
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by soapdog 6y ago
That sucks! Well, there are other notetaking e-ink devices out there which I hope are compliant with the GPL. ReMarkable is good for notetaking but I have heard it is not much use for actual reading. There is Supernote and Bouye Likebook wh
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by soapdog 6y ago
I've spent 16 years working for major niche publisher and am a bit addicted to eReaders. Every time threads like this appear here I see lots of people that have no idea that there is a whole world of devices outside Kindle and Amazon.
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by soapdog 6y ago
Thanks a lot! :-) I will try to run here as well. Excited to see more people doing stuff with Smalltalk.
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by soapdog 6y ago
Anyone got photos or screenshots of it running :-) I am quite curious.
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by soapdog 6y ago
also, just a sidenote which you might already be aware of, a lot of itch.io used to be written in Lua. Check out Moonscript, A language that is like the coffeescript of Lua ( https://moonscript.org ), and Lapis which is a web fram
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by soapdog 6y ago
This is a great post. Pasteboards and snips are so powerful.
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by soapdog 6y ago
It is easier to spot the advantages and disadvantages of AsciiDoc vs Markdown, but has anyone here weighted AsciiDoc vs Textile?
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by soapdog 6y ago
It fits every single immigrant I met here, including myself.
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by soapdog 6y ago
But my Surface Pro X can run Linux inside WSL2. Apps made arm32, arm64, and x86 32bits just works, both Windows and Linux terminal apps, or GUIs if I install an X11 Server. And I can install whatever application I want, and not what Apple a
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Languages That Compile to Lua(andregarzia.com)
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by soapdog 6y ago
I remember seeing the Goiania accident on the news. I was seven years old. It was not scary for me back then as it is right now.
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by soapdog 6y ago
What no one appears to be talking about is that the move to ARM might lead to computers that are less power-hungry thus freeing enough power for Apple to ship some of their nice LTE tech in macbooks without compromising battery life too muc
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by soapdog 6y ago
There are many, you're just not seeing them because they're probably out of your usual tech bubble. Check goodereader.com for their eReader reviews. They often review eReaders which are running Android with web browsers in it, rec
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by soapdog 6y ago
I use overdrive from my kobo. I have three library cards in it, unfortunately I can't use them three at the same time so depending on what kind of book I want, I switch accounts. I can search, reserve, and borrow from any of those con
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by soapdog 6y ago
That is moving in the opposite direction of the recent trend... People are getting sick of silos and algorithmic timelines. Lot's my friends are moving back to RSS and feed aggregators, heck I'm building a RSS add-on.
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by soapdog 6y ago
Is Microsoft doing that because their store never took off? Probably yes. Should governments take a closer look into app stores? Absolutely yes, those games are rigged, monopolistic, and broken.
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by soapdog 6y ago
With Lua you can create environments and define exactly what functions and libraries that environment has access to, and then execute/load your configuration or data file into it. This way it can't have access to i/o or whate
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by soapdog 6y ago
In the case of Lua, you can load that data and configuration Lua files in a protected environment with access only to the functions you provide. This is a built-in feature and pattern that many people who are integrating Lua in their app fo
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by soapdog 6y ago
Lua has features to do just that. It is fairly easy for an app to load a protected environment around Lua source code and only expose what you need. You can clamp all forms of filesystem and hardware access and leave the user with only the
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by soapdog 6y ago
Anyone here shipping a Smalltalk built application these days? I had fun playing with Pharo and Squeak, but in terms of shipping desktop apps to clients I don't know how it could be done with Smalltalk. Maybe Cincom is the only game in
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by soapdog 6y ago
I think I'm getting six with a Surface Pro X
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by soapdog 6y ago
It is a chicken and egg problem. Many languages do not yet support Windows on ARM, so you can't rely on them to build stuff for the new platform. For example there is no official release of NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Perl, on the platform.
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by soapdog 6y ago
I totally agree with you there, buuut, before this release VSCode on a Surface Pro X would be Electron running as a ia32 emulated app, which is not only web technologies but also the wrong ISA. I'd love to have sublime text, textadept,
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by soapdog 6y ago
I don't know if you know but Firefox has native builds for Windows on ARM. You might want to give it a try. It is one of the reasons I was OK with buying the Surface Pro X, I was sure I'd have a good native browser.
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by soapdog 6y ago
It doesn't grow like that in my experience. I just loaded the source for Luarocks on Sublime Text and my RAM usage while browsing some Lua code in it is 31MB, pretty decent. If you're doing Lua, there is always Zero Brane Studio (
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by soapdog 6y ago
That issue link contains the links for download for many different versions. If you go to https://update.code.visualstudio.com/latest/win32-arm64-user... you'll get a direct download of it as well.

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