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@DANmode and @storywatch both called out good paths to explore. I daily drive a monochrome PDA as my core "smart" device. The overall UX is excellent for what it needs to do. Despi…

Surprised my fellow typewriter folks haven't shown up yet! [paging @ebruchez] If you want the writerdeck experience I'll echo the recommendations here for an Alphasmart. The brute-…

Just a note for those in the market (as someone with the unusual distinction of owning ~30 Alphasmarts), a few hundred $ is more like a top of the line, NIB/serviced Alphasmart Neo…

Thank you for supporting monochrome OS 3.5! Will be taking this for a spin. :)

You might take a look around for it. They made two original versions, the 1000 and the 5000. The 1000s are pretty hard to find nowadays (seems a lot of early adopters went for the …

I've been using a Palm of roughly this spec as a daily driver (black and white and everything) for years at this point. Love it every single day.

Careful fading Tom Swift too hard. The two main series date from the 1910-20s and the 50s-60s. Basically sci-fi Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys rather than modern YA, especially the secon…

This is how we handle it as well. We were at friends' last night and the older kids had the N64 out. The older kids reported that ours just wanted to be read to the whole time, but…

Agreed. So much of it is identity (going back to James Clear in Atomic Habits). "I'm not a smoker" is more powerful than "I'm trying to quit". "We just don't watch Youtube on our p…

#1 is exactly what we're doing with ours. The little one understands cassettes and the concept of an audiobook or a Welles radio drama (sometimes MP3/CD, but I record custom casset…

Sure thing! Third party apps yes (see: palmdb.net), but obviously not typical 3rd party services (no Spotify, etc.). I mostly use a few models of Handspring Visor, typically graysc…

IMO your last line there really hits the nail on the head with what I saw both on the ground and in the data. Windows Phone was absolutely crushing it with first-time smartphone ad…

That too. WP7 brought the premise of the amazing UX to the table and then the 7 -> 8.1 -> 10 stuff was a mess for the devs who still did want to invest. Though I'm not sure how muc…

I'll second this. WebOS was conceptually way ahead of its time compared to contemporary versions of iOS, etc. A lot of its UI paradigms (switching apps as cards, etc.) ended up bei…

I switched back to PalmOS for my daily mobile computing a couple of years ago, so I think I've given it time for the nostalgia effect to wear off. It's still incredibly fun and abs…

American here. I had a year of American government around 9th grade-ish, which covered the basics of the system, the founding documents, etc. and then spent a lot of time with the …

Yep! An easy way is a color gradient background layer and then another layer like a white gradient intersecting it. The orientation/opacity of that top gradient lets you get anythi…

I've actually starting incorporating the Vista/Aero aesthetic again in some recent UI work. Not explicitly in anticipation of the 20y trend cycle returning to it and not nearly the…

~B1 French here with Duo being an important step on the way. The trick for Duolingo is to use the desktop version and disable all the "helpful" bits you can or at least use the bro…

I love this! My father created a panorama with walkable waypoints like this for the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a few other historic sites back in the Shockwave/Flash days (somet…