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Link to a past post of mine with flickr links to my old NeXT stuff for people interested.

I reeeeeaallly want to get another one again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35865933

Oh, here is a screenshot of my NeXT loading gmail:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/photolist...

Dated 2009. So I think I was actually using it till 2010.

Im currently putting kids to bed and dead tired. So I will dig up stuff and post a better response tomorrow.

But tl,dr: most everything I did was SSH based for network. Otherwise document editing, pdf viewing etc worked fine. I had a turbo color 33mhz with 128mb of ram.

I also had a ton of custom compiled replacement libraries friends and I worked on and we managed to get newer openSSL working with omniweb etc. I was able to use html mode gmail even! :)

god I miss my NeXT hardware. I used one as a daily driver till ~2008ish. sniff Shouldn't have sold it.

Second that! I would love to see the PC

GOOD. There shouldn't even be a question about this. I have family members who would have died if the current state of abortion bullshit in the US had been a thing.

All these fucks voting out protections THEY ENJOYED their entire reproductive lives is so damn infuriating.

Which us fucking asinine.

You can thank shareholders and the stock market in general with their lunatic "perpetual growth" bullshit for the enshittification of everything.

I am IT at a factory and we use several temp agencies and this is literally how we handle it lol. Surprise they show. Full time hire by 3 months.

This line of logic is more frightening to me than actual AI. LLMs are really useful in a lot of scenarios but it takes 5 minutes playing with one to see that it isn't intelligent.

But since you are the type of person who is seemingly using LLM "written" code in production, your ability to accurate assess anything is suspect at best.

"Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic".

No, an LLM is not intelligent. I do not understand why people will go through mental gymnastics to conclude they are.

queue all the typical arguments supporting them being intelligent and demanding I give reasons for them not being

Oh! I would like to know what sort of reliability and headaches they had out of different types of memory! Drum, core, film memory etc.

Oh wow. The Goodyear Plant must be the one in Gadsden AL which is my home town.

I would love to hear what they think of the advances in technology from when they started till now; on the software side: which machine series they liked dealing with the /least/ and wich the most and why. What operating systems they liked the most.

Any fun anecdotes about user issues, idiotic design quirks they dealt with etc.

Also, if they have any old ephemeral like notebooks, manuals, etc? That sort of thing would be a treasure to scan in and send to archive.org and bitsavers!

The fact companies in the US have "personhood" is a huge fucking problem with this damn country.

That's not entirely true and deoends heavily on the phone.

Depends. The DNG/Raw photos you can force out of gcam will sorta have the noise. Less processing /sorta/. HDR+ with gcam is going to be exceptionally "touched" no matter what.

You can modify the camera drivers etc on some devices to get nearly no processing output (other than the debayering color filtering etc by the ISP). I custom modded an LG V20 that I use for my mobile photography. I've either totally disabled or adjusted nearly every function of the signal processor as well as modified the camera program itself. I also use a custom modified gcam on it.

Some samples: https://imgur.com/gallery/W42TVGf

Look at my user (helforama) on imgur and pretty much every uploaded photo I took and edited on my V20... I need to update that account with newer photos :) been using the phone aince 2016 for photos!

Iirc the chevy volt only lets you use around 60% of the battery pack under normal conditions.

Love my volt. 104K miles, 10 years old, no signs of battery performance degredation yet.

My last volt had 156k and same age and same performance (got totalled :( )

Ferengi.. lol that made me chuckle.

Log does improve things a lot. Being able to do proper 10bit/14bit+ video recording is also a bonus. But you have had the ability to use various color spaces and various non-linear recording formats for awhile on various devices (multiple androids have had this from stock for years plus 3rd party software really unlocks the sensor potential).

But Apple markets it better :P

and on the flip side I have been doing r/w to NTFS from linux for yeeeeears with never an issue.

And I have had /windows/ corrupt NTFS volumes.

Personal anecdotes rock :D

I adore Sumatra. I have used it for decades. Used to run it on my Windows 95 laptop even :) Super fast. Just. Works. Rarely have any issues with it.

Definitely has. I sed to love playing with single and double floppy OSes. Im sure you have seen the old qnx4 demo floppy? Full gui, browser, etc.

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

This is so fucking awesome! I love the rp2040 and palmos and this is such a fun mating!

Dunno why you are getting downvoted. That was my exact reaction, too. Given how often they "promise" something and then renege in 3 years.

... which means literally decades of development tools and support.

Amazes me how techies jump on whatever hotness bandwagons without a second thought.

Do you have yours upgraded to the japanese g3 240mhz? (Or any g3?). Curious about how it performs.

Have you run BSD or anything on it or just classic macos?

I've worn out multiple SSDs.

But wearing them out isnt the only issue with soldered on planned obsolescence BS. The real issue is parts like SSDs can just up and fail. And now you have a ticking time bomb in a machine that could otherwise last damn near indefinitely just so Apple can shave a few cents off production and enforce upgrading.

Yeah, I didn't realize there were only 20 until I hit 20 and it didn't give me any more shapes :( I thoroughly enjoyed the ~20 minutes it gave me lol. I need more.

Please do. I am fascinated by computer history and finding info from people who worked with them is always welcome.

What books do you have? I might be interested in buying them from you :)

I love love love eink. I have used eink daily since about 2007 (first gen kindle... who's design I still adore. Talk about punk looking lol).

I then switched to an Entourage eDGe briefly (too big) and then to an Entourage eDGe Pocket in ~2011. I still have it and use it (battery amazingly holds all day charge under use).

Just got a Boox Tab Ultra C and I am in heaven. The CFA layer over the eink goves really nice muted colors that remind me of 1960s news print and it is so easy on the eyes. The screen refresh speeds are amazing (I actually watch videos using PiP floating (smaller windows refresh better) while doing other things. The Android 11 install is heavily optimized and runs beautifully. If I use it for just tectual data in airplane mode I easy get nearly a month per charge.

My dream is a laptop that is 300+ DPI eink @ 13-15" with maybe a clear oled overlay for when you need color. It would be so nice. Or even a laptop with a rotate screen like the old panasonic toughbooks or fujitsu lifebooks that has a 180 hinge.

Oled or IPS hiDPI on one side and highres eink on the other.

Would be phenomenal. As soon as I have the spare cash I am going to get one of the desktop eink monitors! I am so excited they are finally becoming a thing.

I used to run a greyscale NeXT Turbo for years. Was only 68hz but it was a proper monochrome CRT and was easy on my eyes. For whatever reason, color CRTs hurt my eyes unless they are ~85hz or higher.

Anyways, enough ranting. Suffice to say eink is a dream for people like me and I can only hope it contonues getting better <3

100MB/s or less? Are you using SMR 5400rpm disks? I routinely get 180-220MB/s throughput per Exos drive.

That's because he is an epic piece of shit who peddles in conspiracy theories and pseudo-intellectual gibberish sprinkled with a lot of asshole.

Interesting page.. but some stuff is pure wtf material:

"Sol emits indeed Nukular Particles and solar panels thus have tendency to produce Nukular Energy, but the accumulation of these particles can be avoided by using "Green" batteries. NiMH-batteries are more "Green" than NiCd-batteries -- and usually labeled as such.."

Say what now?