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Omitting such an important story from the article feels sloppy.

For me, no other story from Chemistry is as fascinating as Kekule dreaming up Benzene’s molecular structure. An important reminder to me about the power of narrative and storytelling.

I might be lucky because mine’s still chugging along.

May horde contains: few old MacBooks running Linux, old Kindles running dashboards, Android phones & tablets, iPhones from OG era and even a Chumby. All of them are still working fine.

The fall of WebOS (like BeOS) makes me wonder if the tech world is primed for duopolies. Somehow I feel there are parallels in Windows/Linux, Java/.Net, React/Vue etc.

I distinctly remember the Autumn day of 2011 when we stood in the line of the local Best Buy in West Des Moines to grab one of these. It was miles ahead of anything that was in the market that time. It could do multitasking and had a lovely intuitive UI (cards!!). I remember being blown away by it. Android and iOS freely stole features from it later.

I still have the device and it’s one of my cherished vintage devices.

You know what, I’ll give it a shot again tonight. Thanks for the fist bump. Let’s see how far I go.

Building a web browser.

I once took a stab at Ladybird browser but had to back out due to the complexity of its build chain. I couldn’t get it run on Xcode/CLion on macOS but would love to give it a try once again.

Does anyone have any tips on getting started again?

Zig is nothing like Go. Go uses GC and a runtime while Zig has none. While Zig’s functions aren’t coloured, it lacked the CSP style primitives like goroutines and channels.

I recently, for fun, tried running zig on an ancient kindle device running stripped down Linux 4.1.15.

It was an interesting experience and I was pleasantly surprised by the maturity of Zig. Many things worked out of the box and I could even debug a strange bug using ancient GDB. Like you, I’m sold on Zig too.

I wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211041

Love the wonderfully detailed report. Getting it tested and signed off by Jepsen is such a huge endorsement for TigerBeetle. It’s not even reached v1.0 and I can’t wait to see it hit new milestone in the future.

Special kudos to the founders who are sharing great insights in this thread.

Sounds great!

I’ll give it a try and see how far I go. Do you know any discord channels where such folks hang out?

P.S. Apt username BTW.

> ESP32S3 IC : $4 retail, SCD41 Sensor : $21 retail, SGP41 Sensor : $8 retail, LPS22 Sensor : $4 retail

I am not an expert but if I get these components, how easy would it be to build a hacked version out of these?

I’m not in the US and unaffected by the tarrifs.

What is a MiniFANG?

Friendster would be a great hit with the millennials. They had fond memories of that era and they’re done with the current social media trends. If you succeed with that niche, you might have a better chance.

Back in the days I hosted a lady who also had been to ~190 countries. I miss the old world internet and community.

How does Armbian compare to DietPi?

FWIW: I’m running dietPi on my OG Pi Zero W and it doesn’t even hit 30% resource usage.

> Philodemus was an Epicurean philosopher and poet from Gadara whose ethical teachings emphasise the pursuit of pleasure as central to a good life. He argued against rigid logic and formal rhetoric, believing that philosophy should serve practical human happiness rather than abstract intellectual debate.

As a layman admirer of Epicurean thought, I’m so glad that even after so many wars, destruction and tragedy over the centuries, such wonderful works have survived.

Doordash and the Pizza arbitrage is a mandatory read on the economics of the delivery apps.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage

Oh dear, you transported me back to 2003

It is easy using standard static blogging framework like Hugo/Zola + Cloudflare Pages. I have a minimal blog (<100kb) and it meets all the criteria that OP has listed.

This is what I did:

- Use Hugo Blog Awesome theme

- Followed the 512kb guidelines and verified the page size.

- Stripped down any images and unwanted JS, but there weren't many.

1: https://512kb.club

2. https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan

Great comment, thank you for sharing it. I’ve seen some of it in Garhwal where villages didn’t get proper attention by the Govt. We keep forgetting that states in India are akin to states in Europe.

A modern version of Gram Swaraj combined with Switzerland type canton system might work well but there are no incentives for the administration for that.

Thanks for adding extra context. I wasn’t aware of Hamta. My experience is in rural central and South India but I’ve travelled extensively in Garhwal. How different would you say rural JK/HP/LA/UK is?

Your last para rings true. Goa, Kerala, CG and Odisha have better rural administration than MH, TL or KA because of the absence of heavyweight cities.

There’s a difference between casteism and jātivada which is not easy to explain in a short comment. Ambedkar’s “ Annihilation of Caste” and A.M. Hocart’s works provide interesting insight on it.

TBH Dr. Ambedkar’s Buddhism is very different from what the other traditions preach. It was an answer to the prevailing jātivada, but unfortunately it didn’t manage to make the dent he envisioned.

I’ve grown up around Navayana and have many friends from Kagyu, Theravada and other traditions.

(All this to say I know Bauddha Dharma intimately)

I personally found this very tedious to read and hard to follow. The author veered into weird unrelated tangents and came across of too self indulgent at times. I would rather read Seneca or Cicero instead of this.

It’s a common trope among urban Indians. They’re enamoured by the simple and rustic living of the villages and think of them as noble savages.

I grew up in rural India and I always recommend people to read Dr. Ambedkar’s rights on this subject.

Interesting. This is the first time I’m hearing that Farsi is offensive to Iranians. None of my Irani friends have objected so I’m curious if I’m missing something.

Wikipedia says Farsi should be avoided in Western languages, but what about others? Persian is called Farsi in Indian subcontinent due to the deep historical connections we share. We have proverbs saying Farsi is the sign of a learned person etc.

Best of luck!

Please feel free to ping me if you need any help.

If you just want to test if your image works, I've created a handy script for testing. It downloads the image, displays it for 20 seconds, and reverts the Kindle back to its normal state.

https://github.com/samkhawase/kindle-dash-client/blob/master...

I bought an HP Touchpad in the $99 fire sale and I still have it. The UX was so far ahead of its time that I was blown away by it. It’s still chugging along without hiccups. I miss the days of such lovely and unique devices.

Author here: Thanks for the suggestion. I do have a wifi smart plug and I can take a look at this near trick. So far it's easier to charge it once a month as it runs fine for 2-3 weeks in one charge.