@fuckracists@Soma@admin@locagainstwall If you're hallucinating racists that don't exist and they still look like a tiny minority to you, why are you yelling?
> as if the Thinkpad isn't going to survive a nuclear hellscape (it will)
I don't think anything after, like, x220 will. The T60 definitely will survive.
> no, you have not rambled about DevTerm
It has completely replaced my Thinkpad. Open hardware (all the way down to the CPU if you get one of the RISC-V ones, but I went with ARM), pluggable CPU board (including a carrier board for a Pi CM-4), battery power is two standard-ass 18650s, three USB ports, nice enough keyboard (can touch-type, small enough to thumb-type if you have long enough thumbs). Also, bafflingly, it comes with a receipt printer. It is like the perfect portable machine, ideal hacker device, I haven't even powered on my Thinkpad since I got it. Plus it's designed to look like a Model-100. It's excellent.
some tell stories about their work in EE over the past 30 years. mostly oldhead IBM sorts who wax nostalgic for when everything was a beige box. they mostly have settled down and do consulting for other boomers who are scared of technology so they act as a filter for other elderly sorts
they mostly laugh whenever I talk about Lenovo for some reason though, as if the Thinkpad isn't going to survive a nuclear hellscape (it will)
but no, you have not rambled about DevTerm, and you should because I am as of yet ignorant :hackerman:
there are also boomers. most times, the boomer kills the IC board. there are a couple of boomers from research institutions that will come in and ask to clean us out of the things we aren't using who are exceptionally awesome, but the ones that aren't are the ones looking for tons of Optiplexes. with Windows.
on 6th gen platforms.
so they can have paperweights in a year because lol microshit. I tell them this, they do not listen.
@p@Soma@Tony@admin@fuckracists@locagainstwall reminds me I have to bring a pi home tomorrow from work and install pihole on it, just got john mcafee $whack'd by xfinity after they redid the line and now google services are being particularly pernicious about saying "blocking ads is against our terms of service" or something daft
not sure if it had something to do with the VPN I'm using but it's yet another thing to do on vacation in a couple days
Lol sorry, you have to be able to read at more than an 8th grade level to operate a drone.
Tease me for being white? lmao
- average intelligence higher than niggers - my people literally colonized the globe - can hold a job - read like an adult - can do math - black women want me more than they want you - society low key favors me in literally every legal situation - have to create fake scenarios to prove whatever mutt race you are is better
@fuckracists@Soma@admin@locagainstwall You appear to think racists and fascists are the same thing and that I'm in either category. Neither of those groups likes me. If you wanna go internet-fight some racists, pieville.net has open registrations last I checked.
They have a new one, the uConsole, it's even smaller, which is cool but I think that makes it less usable as a laptop replacement. The DevTerm's keyboard is nice enough to type on, like when I had to fly out for my grandfather's trip to the hospital, I used just the DevTerm all week. The uConsole looks fun but like, I think I would still need the Thinkpad if I only had that.
(There's usually one or two on eBay if you are interested but don't wanna wait for ClockworkPi to get it shipped, but because of the availability, some of the eBay sellers are, like, placing orders with a hefty markup, so if you go that route, make sure they have photos of the actual device.)
There's the Beepberry, too, which is like a parts manifest rather than a thing you can buy, it looks cool. Like a Pi-Zero and a Blackberry keyboard and a black-and-white screen. They have started calling it the "Beepy", maybe they got in trouble with Blackberry, I don't know. vs_beepy.jpeg with_devterm.jpeg
@p@Soma@Tony@admin@fuckracists@locagainstwall@unlight That said, I'm sure any woman's pussy would dry up seeing this monstrosity faster than one could send her a green bubble (apparently, it's a problem among American youth).
@mint@Soma@Tony@admin@fuckracists@locagainstwall@unlight Ah, yeah. I had been planning to try making the keyboard modal, when I get a free minute to play with it. (It doesn't look remotely tricky, just reflashing the keyboard is a pain, plus I'm not sure if there's a way to do it without having to go through the stupid Arduino thing and the entire thing is a yak-shave that will probably take hours so I figure I'll just do it when the net is down or something: https://github.com/clockworkpi/DevTerm/blob/main/Code/devterm_keyboard/keymaps.ino#L97 .) I figured that it'd be easy enough to strip out the joystick stuff: the buttons are a little too floaty for anything besides turn-based games, so it'd be easier to just plug in a regular controller instead of trying to play it like a massive Gameboy, and turn the directional buttons into extra keys or modifiers or something. You could also try remapping the right-control and right-alt, that's something you could do in software without reflashing the keyboard.
...And then while typing that, I saw the "check_pd2" function, which apparently reads a dip switch on the back of the keyboard and remaps the joystick keys to regular keys if it's on, so I'm evidently not the first one to think of this. None of them are meta keys, but I figure it shouldn't be too hard to tweak that. symbolics-keyboard.jpg
@mint@Soma@Tony@admin@fuckracists@locagainstwall@unlight I don't know what is a green bubble but this might depend on the city. Most of the girls I know hate actual nerd shit but they don't mind nerd aesthetics, but I'm also in nerd town near JPL and CalTech and there's an SAT prep school every block.
(SAT is a standardized test used for college admissions.)
@p@Tony@Soma@admin@fuckracists@locagainstwall@unlight That was a clever marketing strategy from Apple. Since target consumer base in USA is too retarded to install and use third-party messaging application, they embedded their own solution, iMessage, into the default app used for SMS. If you try to send an SMS message to the number that has an Apple account, and owner's iPhone is online, it will be sent via iMessage and the text bubble will have the blue background, otherwise it's green. Seeing the green bubble gives women the "ick".