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@requiem @gemlog @socketwench @PINE64 Pretty similar then, looking at the specs, just a 1 inch larger screen, so probably closer to the EEE1005. that touch pad with the metallic-looking buttons and the teensy keyboard just look so similar.

@requiem @gemlog @socketwench That looks like a clone of the Asus EEE901, I have one of those that I run Haiku on as well.

@soller @gamey If you click on the conversation (on Pleroma, it's via clicking the "time" in the message) then you can see the entire conversation. I don't use a stupid app though, just the web.

@sima @pro No, it's just that I use Haiku on those systems because everything I use Haiku for runs fast, while linux apps, being developed on much faster systems, tend to run slow on the slower systems.

@sima @pro Most distros have dropped i686 already, and the few that are left are very nerdish distros like Devuan and Debian. Not exactly something that I'd turn a beginner user loose on. Most of the popular desktop environments are too fat for an old 4gig system as well. Those developing for it are mostly targeting higher end stuff, so desktop apps on linux are getting less and less optimized. Sure, you can make linux fit a tiny old system, but it's getting harder.

@pro @sima (Though, If you really want to do Linux on a pre-64 x86, there's PsychOS still, they just stick to a version of the kernel that still has i686 support.)

@pro @sima After a certain point, old machines get relegated from Linux duty, to Haiku, NetBSD, or Hurd duty. The oldest machine I have active around here is an Asus EEE901 running Haiku 32bit, though I have a couple of inactive machines that are loaded with AtariBasic.

@KC8JC So, you're saying the next big social media growth industry for corporations to insert themselves into is web ring software? :D

@TechConnectify @diligentcircle Maybe touch screens are a really bad interface when you're doing a complex task. And we've outsourced all of our in-car entertainment and navigation to devices with touch screens. Instead of apple carplay and android auto, we should be trying to make interfaces that don't require you to look at them to control them. Of course, creating a standard set of buttons that all media, and navigation apps, and all car interfaces can implement is a challenge. Android is really bad at even routing the next/play/pause/previous buttons to the right place.

@TechConnectify So as long as it's in the context of casual conversation, I wouldn't have a problem with it. If they start putting it that way in a ledger though, that's right out.

@TechConnectify Well, when you say it out loud, it would be "Dollars 200" but "200 Dollars" so I imagine that this is an abbreviation to speech rather than indicating it as a number on a spreadsheet.

@fribbledom It probably lost me at both "mobile" and "app." I imagine the API is also closed, so there's no making an open source replacement app for it.

@union Those look like they're a bit higher quality at least, good stitching around the edges. They don't look like cheap quality fake leather or rubber with printing and very cheap stitching.

@union Honestly, they look like the kind of patches that you would get on cheap chinese backpacks to make them look more official.

@union Weird, a US veteran I know uses that name, B+Pos for Be Positive, his first initial is B though.

@benjedwards Nice that 6502 has an equivalent of the Amiga Vampire 68080.

@TechConnectify @eukara Google did that with RSS, they embraced it, kept adding stuff until they had everyone on their service and away from other rss services, then they killed it and tried to force everyone over to their closed system. It's happened over and over again with open standards and companies making their own enhanced versions.

@TechConnectify @eukara I'm personally not opposed to growth, but suspicious of a company that will do the old "Embrace Extend Extinguish" routine.