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Ask HN: Which old, functional, electronics do you have?

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Re: Ask HN: Which old, functional, electronics do you have?

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Post by anthonyhn »

I have a Nokia N900 running PostmarketOS [0]. The Nokia N900 is a great device, it has a sliding keyboard, touch screen, pen stylus, removable battery and micro sd card. PostmarketOS is an Alpine Linux-based OS using i3 as the window manager, so it doesn't take up a lot of resources (N900 only has 256 MB of RAM, every byte counts) and provides a lot of room for customization.

[0] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nokia_N900_(nokia-n900)

Re: Ask HN: Which old, functional, electronics do you have?

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Post by duffyjp »

actually_a_dog wrote: post #44
duffyjp wrote: post #20

I have a PowerPC G4 Powerbook with 3+ years of uptime. https://old.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/vhk4xy/12_pow... I test all my shell scripts on it to ensure the maximum of cross compatibility. You can't leave the PPC folks behind.

Just out of pure curiosity, what issues do you ever end up finding in PPC shell scripts that don't occur on other platforms?

Almost nothing to be honest. I just added a battery percentage display to the other info I show when starting a new terminal and it worked out of the box. Same for architecture which I added to make sure I knew if I was in an arm64 terminal or a x86_64 one run through Rosetta. On the G4 it happily reports "Power Macintosh."

I have had a few issues I can't recall off the top of my head just down to really old versions of stuff. There's always "the old way" to do something and it can be fun to figure out.

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