asciilifeform: zebrahitler (tm)

asciilifeform: obligatory: http://www.pbfcomics.com/209

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: like church organ.

asciilifeform: actual computer should be a -place-, not merely machine

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/komp.jpg << try on laptop.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: can hold a kg or 2 of dust

asciilifeform: you know, the one that is heavy, if you kick, won't move

asciilifeform: there is not, nor can be, a replacement for The computer.

asciilifeform owns many peculiar machines on account of quests like 'program in bed' and 'read ascii/koi8 on balcony' etc.

asciilifeform: diff.

asciilifeform: emacs ?

asciilifeform: aha and papers.

asciilifeform usually prefers to scribble in an actual notebook

asciilifeform: (why to do this, is a matter of taste)

asciilifeform: the model is that one wishes sometimes to emulate a book.

asciilifeform: (yet)

asciilifeform: my mixer also does not run bash

asciilifeform: 'kindle' is not a computer! it's this entirely specialized machine, like kitchen mixer.

asciilifeform: see above

asciilifeform: then i walk three meters to the actual computer, lol

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: it goes to a text file.

asciilifeform: with 'clitoris' joystick

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a quote collector widget.

asciilifeform: they keep making'em

asciilifeform: someone, somewhere.

asciilifeform: as for the chumpatronics, i have no idea who uses.

asciilifeform: (not literal lib.ru, long dead, but texts in general)

asciilifeform: i use it mainly for lib.ru

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (which one is not forced to use, unlike the one in certain very early 'e-readers', but tempts sufficiently many ESL (to use mircea_popescu's term) folks to bring in a pretty penny for the vendor)

asciilifeform sometimes wonders whether that product category would exist - and what it would cost if it did - if there were not a built-in chumpatronic collector

asciilifeform has a 'kindle dx'. no signs of wear after ~4 yrs.

asciilifeform: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/kindle-root

asciilifeform: can now try and see

asciilifeform: folks have ported linux to 'kindle'

asciilifeform: the 'fast' e-ink remains mythical.

asciilifeform: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/SirsiDynix_Corp_restricted_lobby_paper_against_Open_Source_technologies%2C_Sep_2009 << related

asciilifeform: (had rs232 port also, presumably for terminals)

asciilifeform: glorious thing. emulated ps/2 kbd.

asciilifeform still has one of those scanners. with the old stainless steel wand.

asciilifeform: as a student.

asciilifeform ended up buying such a terminal (not from library) and using for a long while

asciilifeform: beautiful keyboards, too

asciilifeform: watched this happen.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: 'shuddup & suck on it' (tm)

asciilifeform: the new one - requires mouse.

asciilifeform: (ibm)

asciilifeform: because that was the previous usg monopoly.

asciilifeform: tired of spending money/labour on disinfecting 10,000 boxes presided over by tetris-playing accountants, or retail clerks

asciilifeform: it came solely from folks writhing under the leather straps of microshit

asciilifeform: golden toilet.

asciilifeform: quite useless, unless one of us were to come across a gigantic crate of these somewhere.

asciilifeform: decimation: just about all of the listed machines are 'old stock'

asciilifeform: ^ mega-list

asciilifeform: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Special:BrowseData/Wired_embedded_system

asciilifeform: not at the sticker price.

asciilifeform: (even x86, iirc.)

asciilifeform: there is a mips-android...

asciilifeform: 32, iirc

asciilifeform: for some reason sitting on the wireless daughterboard.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: decimation: interestingly!

asciilifeform: none had any more than 32m of ram

asciilifeform: i looked at several when hunting for node hardware

asciilifeform: silly or not, apparently there are at least half a dozen makers of just this.

asciilifeform: but luser gets to stuff sd card or usb drive into this gizmo, which serves up contents over http

asciilifeform: (no slots)

asciilifeform: which does not allow expansion of storage in the customary way

asciilifeform: these are, i think, meant to be used with iPnohe

asciilifeform: peculiarly high price tag, but perhaps will fall to somewhere close to zero as they sit on the shelves.

asciilifeform: all i have is this picture.

asciilifeform: ^ not mine

asciilifeform: i like that the 802.11 card - comes off.

asciilifeform: of the side not shown, that is

asciilifeform: if anyone has one of these, please pop the cover and take a photo.

asciilifeform: but, unless i missed something, no info anywhere re: ram on the board.

asciilifeform: http://goughlui.com/2015/01/29/review-teardown-apotop-wi-copy-dw21-5200mah-power-bank << this wants to be a node

asciilifeform: ^ all of them, i think

asciilifeform: http://www.cemetech.net/img/misc/collection2013a.jpg

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=253&image_id=3667 << the 'plus module' from earlier. updated rom + eeprom (original -92 lacked eeprom)

asciilifeform: (a second or so, but it much grated on the nerves)

asciilifeform: the later grey blob, with the usb jack, also had... a boot time.

asciilifeform: not just that

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the original 'blue arrow keys' was best.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i had several. see log

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: toldya he was worth digging into

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from five minute's dig, seems like it was a rom.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you had a ti92. what was https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/vYjLMFABxoRvDQUr.huge ?

asciilifeform: decimation: same dynamics as the management of hunting in game preserves.

asciilifeform: http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/t1_drug_wars2.jpg

asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu knows what the pupils -actually- did with those calculators.

asciilifeform: spot checks, so nobody actually drives the limit

asciilifeform: instead, there are 6 (?) policecars, in special '200' livery, at all times.

asciilifeform: interestingly, speed limit could easily be enforced by the (photo-operated) toll machines - but isn't

asciilifeform: empty on account of outlandish tolls

asciilifeform: aha