I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

Psions were pretty amazing. Can’t believe they ran a whole operating system like that on a couple of batteries. Iirc, turning on the LCD backlight doubled the idle power consumption. So the whole system was as heavy as a couple of LEDs.

Never take software from a hardware company.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

Often a whole lot of steps are taken before actually going public.

Broadly yes, as a “user”.

If you have a laser, scales on bananas can be arranged.

And has had a PIN lock from the start. Doesn’t help if you leave it as 1234, though.

It is important. And in this case, it’s even exactly what it says on the label. As long as you know what a fund and an exchange are.

The most evil company that ever existed needs it. So you will have it by default.

Cats in particular don’t complain. If they’re sick, they are more likely to hide and rest. If your cat is quiet or passive, it’s probably not doing well.

That sounds like an awfully broad target.

It is tempting to assume that older gamers exclusively play low-fidelity games on their smartphones. This is simply untrue.

While mobile is certainly the biggest part of the games market in terms of revenues, 55+ gamers account for 23% of monthly PC gamers and 11% of monthly console gamers.

Being a big fan of racist jokes and forgetting to turn filters back on in public.

Would be funny if it wasn’t complete bs. Except for the amazing time part. They’re fun folk.

Sounds like a title for an interesting album/book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer was essentially killed by the killer micros in early 80’s.

True. But the rule of thumb is that in order to replace an existing working solution, a new model needs to be at least ten times better in quantifiable ways. Otherwise it’s worth staying with the established solution.

What’s ten times better than qwerty?

Very interesting, thank you. I should give this a try when I get back to a dev machine. Sounds like it still downloads and uses the SDK which might be significant for licensing or other reasons, but I’m probably fine with that for personal use.

This is a thing I look for now and then, but it always seems to fall back to “install android studio” and I nope at that point. Maybe one of these days. Having the ability to make some simple app would be interesting.

It runs on one particularly horrible platform only. Jre.