Rediscover

A major reason why the Viet Nam war died.

Bang! Spot on! Love NXP. Everyone else here, read the above comment.

4A, in my measurements.

It is a power supply that if intelligent negotiations fail, falls back to providing 5V (at whatever current), usually (2023) USB-C.

You are correct. I have many that do 5V 4A.

If You have not tried what the other reply-post suggests (dumb brick), I have a 5V 4A dumb brick I can loan for a quick test. Seattle area. It has worked on quite a few boards here. Or purchase one from where-ever, they are really useful outside of SBCs (though they are usually 5.3V and 4.xA, so watch out with sensitive parts).

Piers, "Mute"

Living in Belltown (neighborhood of Seattle), we have a TON of addicts. Mostly alcohol. Most of the residents are great at functioning.

We also have the /other/ "addicts" - crackheads (et al, sic) who show up here (Belltown) and are not part of the contributing society.

The ones going to clubs/parties/raves when represented in a Venn diagram describing

addicts/over-use and those not going to clubs/parties/raves and societal contributions

is pretty dramatic.

My own, personal, use-case is to completely nuke `bash-complet*` off my machine.

To me, bash-completion is horrible. I am looking for a tarball to unwind, and I only remember that it it started with "foo-" and it sure did not end in ".tar" (trying to save keystrokes, y'know). Trying C-i does not pull up anything. Argghh. I am on a machine with bash-completion!

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I often hit C-a then "a" to get an invalid command (still saved to my hist), or C-a C-k if I think there is nothing else going into the kill-ring. bash-completion absolutely messes with me.

If it works for You, that is great. I really dislike it.

Trivia: At the old AT&T (not at&t, the (mostly) mobile/cell company), it was standard to degausse the drive then drill through the middle of the radius and park a bolt there.

Bonus points if You had a spot welder to secure a nut to the bolt.

Fun times.

I spend the majority of my time in the shell (usually bash) or emacs. Learning the key-maps, especially for zsh and bash, was one of the best things I ever did. Wow, that cut my keypresses down immensely. So did remapping lynx(1) keybindings.

> ...different language keypads...

I found out while travelling, around 20 years ago, my (then current) SO would get frustrated with the keyboards in different languages (all over the EU). She gave up even trying to use a different keyboard and started asking me to type for her (it sucks, her being restrained like that).

I also found out that it takes me <60s to pick up the new layouts on those physical keyboards (again, European variants)

Regardless of the layout, she is always faster than me on virtual keyboards.

The regulars, including Don Lancaster, were great. I would drool over so many articles that I barely understood, and one of my goals for the next month were to get caught-up on some part of this tech that had escaped me.

Computer Shopper was fantastic for guiding me to complement my more formal studies.

OT: Does anyone else still use 6502/65c816's and TMS32C32's?

Thank You. Sorry about not adding to the discussion.

Also, MNT Reform. Love it, though the screen is a bit wide for me.

My OLPC XO-1 is still a daily-driver (with an HHKB, yeah I know the keyboard costs more than the laptop, tough!), especially for outside use.

https://mntre.com/ ^ MNT

This probably not for You... but

For me, it took separating from my other half. The only ex{-,{girlfriend,wife}} I am not in contact with. It did wonders for my teeth-clenching.

Sucks.

Reading the comments here (and the short article) /exactly/ reminded me of usenet and bitnet[feeds]. I am glad I kicked that habit in the late '80s/early '90s, it made it simple to avoid later social media.

(I still miss them, but not Eternal September)

I loved elm(1).

I stopped using elm (email) when I found mutt(1).

Gads, that and procmail(1) were heaven. And when I finally intersected procmail with eliza, I was full of bliss... I was at AT&T (yes, THE AT&T) and it was hyper-satisfying that my co-workers recognized it and the marketing dept usually did not.

lynx(1) on termux does this automatically. :)

Yes, I use lynx as my main browser except for HN. Everything else is lynx.

Further OT: My ex-father-in-law will tell me in SMS or email something to the effect of "Use a graphical browser...[to see this URL]."

How about not glasses, but a 2cm face shield? Flips up and down...

Yes, Nreal Air (March 2023) without activation.

FireWire on ThinkPads, too... Even one of my low-end TPs (but still a real one, my R61i) has IEEE-1394 (ie, FireWire).

Hey, I apologize You were exposed to BACNet. Seriously. That was one the worst HVAC protocols I've dealt with. It seemed (1990's) to do most stuff in obtuse ways compared to other HVAC comms.

At least The standards were supported (eg. 4-20mA).

Again, sorry. And glad You toppled it.

Fun story:

My ex (one of my best friends), born and raised in Seattle, used to give me serious grief anytime I mention rain in Boston or NYC. She had no belief in what I would describe.

Work finally ships her out to (NYC). She calls me up to say she just ran ~2meters from the hotel to the taxi and is soaking wet.

She has never commented on Seattle "rain" since.

REAL rain.

Honda Prelude. Maybe 1985. Everything off for me. Radio controls, lift my hand off the shifter, vs my Toyota: extend a finger. Hated that Honda.

Nice article. Not what I was expecting...

I was really hoping this would address "Visual Book" like in ふしぎの海のナディア, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia/The Secret of Blue Water. The LaserDiscs used to say "Visual Book" in every episode.

Great animated series (to me), a mix of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the Illuminati.

Do NOT watch it with the english subs. Suffer with the Japanese, even if You don't speak it. You don't need the junk verbal translation, You will still get the main concepts. And Hanson's driving is so much more manaical in Japanese.

Quite well remember them and the Give 1 Get 1 program. Mine still boots and I still love being able to use it outside with bright sunlight.

I believe (but could be wrong) it was Richard Smith of the project who made the comment (paraphrased) "perhaps the warranty should be void until you've the XO-1."

I last booted mine a week ago in anticipation of summer.

You might be interested in a "field monitor" over in the photography department, though they are often small.

I have a 2200 nit (not a typo) piece of kit: Feelworld P7, very sturdy aluminum body, either camcorder batteries (multiple sleds) or 7-24V, 1920x1200 7" screen, HDMI in & out. Works well. I've seen larger displays.

Agreed.

I've used Linux since I was afraid to touch BSD (in early-mid 1990s, i386 and TMS). I grew up on nix and found the whole shit-can of ~1992 horrible. Then Linux appeared. Of course I switched. Now I am back to BSD and Linux (Slackware).

I have never had a prob (save for some audio with a CS* chip that was fixed by loading MS-NT & copying their firmware from a hot running machine and dumping it back into some otherOS - Dell Lat 360 or 36x).

Do You ever use awk's "system" command?

I run stuff like You mentioned (piping to a shell) and also system() frequently. It depends on many factors which one I'll choose.

(FWIW, I'm also quite decent in many shell flavors on many Unix/Linux variants, so that is another determinant)

Eg, the Busybox ash(1) that I frequently work with does not support arrays, but its awk(1) does...