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Thanks! Ghostwriter is a really good candidate. I mostly use iA Writer on my mac and they seem to share the same philosophy.

Thanks! This is really really tempting, but I guess this leaves Wi-Fi on the table, right? I want to run it offline, but still be able to sync my writing on-demand when I'm done.

I have one of these in a closet and wondered for years about how to turn it in a distraction free word processor/simple digital typewriter. Always loved the netbook form factor, an…

I have a related question: In a contest where all the code is generated by LLMs and not hand-coded anymore, does it still make sense to use high-level languages and other abstracti…

Best PC Speaker music ever was Xenon II, by Bomb the Bass[0] (which much later I discovered was a re-rendition of Carpenter' Assault on Precint 13 OST[1]). May sound silly for some…

Just reading "Prince of Persia" and in my head starts playing the oriental background music (by pc speaker! No sound card back then, at least for me). Also, the steps, the gates an…

It was “good enough” for them at the time. Technology is and was always about something good enough for most people. But the Eno quote is about art and aesthetic.

I remember when this story (first?) came up on hn, there's a long thread here[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101053

I do most of my work remotely on a little Raspberry Pi 4 server attached to my home ISP: https://fatcity.it/ But I'm planning to do a big jump: Soon I will switch to a 2012 Mac Min…

Thanks! Installing right now!

Interesting! Looking forward for a macOS build.

Nothing new. I'm sure something similar was said about Google before... https://encourageandteach.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

Exited to dos, found Bubble Bobble in GAMES directory and started to play. And that's mostly what I used to do as a kid at the times of Windows 3.11!

Without Linux, just for writing: https://valentine.getfreewrite.com/

When iPhones still had the headphone port, a friend of mine soldered a IR led on top of a minijack, something like this: https://www.rtfms.com/wp-content/rtfms-com/LED-pinout.png T…

Correct, as in Betteridge's law of headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

I think all the listed software is available for download in the website still-active BBS: scenelist.org:23 (I only tried the web interface briefly).

The NFO Search section is pure gold. I'm glad someone preserved all this.

Also: “Everything’s computer!”

Input This is the equation. When you quote on the input - that's the time you need to do the job, you multiply your rate for the weeks/days/hours, plus maybe some other expenses. T…