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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:09:18 JST Sick Sun
   How did I miss this
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:10:21 JST Sick Sun

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     @romin does he have one?
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:10:22 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @sun pete talks about it all the time
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:14:12 JST pistolero

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     @romin @sun Yes. It is very cool, but in terms of actually performing work, it is not quite as useful as the DevTerm.
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:29:58 JST david

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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:30:04 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @sun he has the devterm model
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:31:11 JST Sick Sun

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     @p @romin do you do real work on a devterm?
     
     I had the pleasure to see and try a devterm belonging to a friend I visited during my european vacation
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:32:10 JST iced depresso

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     @sun the lead time on these things is like a blobbin year :neocat_yeet:
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:32:31 JST Sick Sun

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     @icedquinn I would love to get one but the reality is I just won't use it enough.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:33:54 JST iced depresso

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     @sun its kind of a misc use machine yeah.
     idk what i will do with it either but they're the slowest fulfillers in the world so there's plenty of time to figure it out
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:34:25 JST Dad

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     @sun @p @romin what's that yellow thing on top? a printer? an antenna? extra battery?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:34:25 JST Sick Sun

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @p @romin It's a little dot-matrix printer that prints to a reel of paper! It's really cool. I have some printouts from one I'll share pics with sometime.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:35:03 JST Sick Sun

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @p @romin it's attached to an expansion slot iirc so you can pull it out and plug in other peripherals.
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     The King! :bleh: (theking@mskey.nekomimi.party)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:36:22 JST The King! :bleh:

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     @david@hollow.raccoon.quest @sun@shitposter.world I ordered one of these once, heard that it might take a few months to actually get it, despite being labeled as "in stock", because they were so far behind on shipping :/
     It does seem like a neat device though

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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:38:56 JST Dad

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     @sun @p @romin neat. micro computers are neat.
     
     https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-cm4-series
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:43:26 JST Dad

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     @sun @p @romin I should buy one and start writing again.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:44:03 JST iced depresso

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @p @romin @sun freewrite alphas are kind of nice for that, although they still aren't quite as nice as the original alphasmarts. most of my writing this year has been imported from that.
     
     the uconsole would be nicer in some ways though
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:56:04 JST pistolero

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     > do you do real work on a devterm?
     
     Yes. It has completely replaced my Thinkpad. I do most of my reading on it, I do all of my away-from-desk computing on it. When I had to fly out last year to visit grandpa as he was on his way out and help me mum with all that, I only used the DevTerm for about a week and didn't have any trouble. I've spent the day with it before. Even the RISC-V one (single 1GHz core, 1GB RAM) is usable for work; longer compile times if you're doing it locally, but it runs drawterm fine, so I can get to the Plan 9 machine, it runs urxvt/dvtm/screen/ssh just fine, client software for everything runs great, except the client software for the web. Browsers work fine on the A-06, though. I had to resort to hacks to compile qt6 because it wanted something like 20GB of RAM to link, but that would have failed on my Thinkpad also.
     
     > I had the pleasure to see and try a devterm belonging to a friend I visited during my european vacation
     
     Oh, they're fun. I wrote up a lengthy comparison some time recently, I can try to dig it up, but effectively the uConsole is fun and it's good in a pinch, the DevTerm is actually usable for work. I have used the uConsole as a second screen, like, run a barrier server on the DevTerm and then a client on the uConsole and you can see docs on one screen while the code is on the other.
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:56:11 JST Dad

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     @icedquinn @p @romin @sun I have both a Freewrite and an old Alphasmart. I wrote two novels on one of the latter, bit by bit!
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:20:26 JST pistolero

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     @SilverDeth @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun I have had the misfortune to be obligated to interact with recent Windows/OSX, and you can't use the damn thing for ten consecutive minutes without a notification popping up. It wants you to update the OS. It wants you to take a tour of features in the program that shows you a calendar. A thing decides suddenly to ask you permission to access your rectal thermometer and your address book. Another update is available. A blue tooth was found, do you want to try to connect to it? The firewall wants your permission to check if another update is available.
     
     I couldn't figure out how to turn most of it off; I know how to turn that stuff off in Linux (it is really easy: just don't install it) and in Plan 9 (even easier: it's really easy to not install something that no one has written). I can only imagine what happens if you are trying to write and are possibly not great with computers. It must be impossible to use a regular computer for this nowadays.
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:20:27 JST SilverDeth

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     @p @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun
     
     Who knew authors had such low impulse control? However, as a true gadget appreciator, that things has a big of 1990's zerust going for it that I find... compelling.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:20:28 JST pistolero

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     @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun
     
     > You actually like it?
     
     If you and Dad are both using it all the time, I guess that question is already answered. The screen's really not bad?
     
     Also the big one has a physical wifi knob, which was kind of funny:
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:20:29 JST pistolero

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     @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun Ha, that's kinda cool. You actually like it?
     
     It looks fun, but the screen looks painfully small, and $350; like, you can still pick up a used TRS-80 Model 100 for about $100-200, bigger screen and full-size keyboard. It is probably less convenient to dump the contents of a text file over a serial line rather than USB, eInk might mean the screen is less squinty than it looks. (The "Freewrite Smart Typewriter" looks really cool but also, like...$650.) How is it, is the screen a problem? Easy to get your text off of it?
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:23:39 JST DulceKennedy

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @p @icedquinn @romin @sun can you use your own self-hosted cloud or does it force you to sell your soul to the Antichrist?
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:23:39 JST iced depresso

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     @ElDeadKennedy @p @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun the Alpha can transfer out via offline USB, but all cloud features are proprietary
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:23:40 JST Dad

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     @p @icedquinn @romin @sun the built-in editor is deliberately gimped because they want you to use it for plain text only and edit later while on your main computer. battery life is strong, but I haven't used it much. keyboard is comfortable because the device is large.
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:23:41 JST Dad

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     @p @icedquinn @romin @sun I got one of these for cheap. and the screen IS bad!
     
     https://getfreewrite.com/products/alpha
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:23:41 JST pistolero

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     @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun Oh, yeah, I looked at their site. Even if the screen looks like it'd be difficult to manage, it *is* an appealing device. How is the built-in editor? Battery life? (I'd recommend the Model 100, but this is fedi, so I'd have to recommend the NEC PC-8201 instead.)
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:24:23 JST Dad

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     @p @icedquinn @romin @sun I haven't messed around with it much, so I don't know if there's a way to jailbreak it and get your text directly from fhe device. the horribleness of the publishing industry has soured me on the whole "writing" thing.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:24:23 JST iced depresso

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @p @romin @sun if it's an alpha you plug it in to a computer and it goes USB mode. The traveler and original I have no idea.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:24:24 JST pistolero

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @icedquinn @romin @sun
     
     > the built-in editor is deliberately gimped because they want you to use it for plain text only and edit later while on your main computer.
     
     That kinda sucks. I was looking for some explanation of WordStar a long time back, like why did people rave about it? Maybe grab a copy of it and see how it felt (which I ended up not grabbing a copy, because I found a list of the keybindings and I think I understand why people liked it). Apparently the Game of Thrones guy writes all of his shit on it, still. He has a DOS machine he sits down at and turns on WordStar and writes his books, then he copies them to a computer with an internet connection when they are done.
     
     Does it give you a regular FAT partition full of text files if you plug it in? Like, I saw "cloud" and it made me nervous.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:29:59 JST iced depresso

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @p @romin @sun one big bear I have is that it appears to use volatile memory. If the battery goes then so do your files. And it really doesn't want to tell you how much battery is left.
     
     I would still probably be willing to engineer another smart typewriter because this is kind of unacceptable in this day and age like the whole point of these things is taking them off grid but Astrohaus sre hipster fucks that built it to be near hive cities.
     
     One of those things it would be nice to have jcore processors so it could have the battery life of the original, but still add an SD card slot for durable memory maybe :blobcatpensive2:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:00:21 JST iced depresso

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     @p @ElDeadKennedy @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun it pretends to be a 2mb memory card. anything you save or delete it ignores, though, so you still can't push to the device despite people asking about it.
     
     the dana is the only one of these that lets you write to it.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:00:22 JST pistolero

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     @icedquinn @ElDeadKennedy @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun Does it pretend to be a hard drive or is there something you have to install to talk to it?
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:38:22 JST Dad

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     @p @icedquinn @SilverDeth @romin @sun Ubuntu? isn't that that nice gentleman who had the child soldiers?
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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @SilverDeth @icedquinn @romin @sun Don't blame me, I voted for Kony in 2012.
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     @p @icedquinn @SilverDeth @romin @sun I haven't used Windows 11 but I hear it's a worse experience than fighting the Viet Cong.
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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @SilverDeth @icedquinn @romin @sun So Ubuntu will catch up in about five years?
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:39:28 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @p @sun
     >I had to resort to hacks to compile qt6 because it wanted something like 20GB of RAM to link
     modern bloatware and its consequences...
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     @romin @sun Surprisingly, Firefox had no trouble. qt6's build process is a fuck starting from trying to set the compiler.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:42:02 JST iced depresso

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     @p @phnt @SilverDeth @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun why do you need to intercept motd can't you just write it during init :bunhdgoogly:
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     @phnt @SilverDeth @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun
     
     > even Canonical can't make software that bad.
     
     They made a kernel module to intercept reads from /etc/motd in order to inject news and the number of out-of-date packages you have installed.
     
     Do not doubt Shuttleworth's power.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:42:04 JST Phantasm

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     @p @icedquinn @SilverDeth @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun I might be wrong, but even Canonical can't make software that bad.
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     @thendrix @noyoushutthefuckupdad @icedquinn @SilverDeth @romin @sun Whether they rewrite Gnome or not, Ubuntu's desktop has always been "Whatever shitty thing Windows did five years ago".
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     GNOME is so bad they already have people making alternatives in Rust.

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     @p @icedquinn @SilverDeth @romin @sun relevant (and ultra #NSFW) song
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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @SilverDeth @icedquinn @romin @sun
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