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Comment Re:Way too late. (Score 1) 33

I migrated off Evernote years ago. I don't recall what I used immediately afterward, but nowadays I'm self-hosting Nextcloud. There's an optional notes app accessible from the web interface and from Android devices (and possibly others, though those are all I care about).

Comment Re:uh no (Score 1) 204

digikey may have them, but on Amazon they are still owned by the scalpers.

...but for how much longer? As word continues to get out that you can find RPi hardware at MSRP, who in his right mind would pay what the scalpers are still trying to charge?

User Journal

Journal Journal: Deeveeaar gets the resumes and ID cards of over 500 scammers. 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGzLZbL7zM

And yet, the Jaipur Police and Indian Media are strangely uninterested in this story. So, Indians, where you guys at? Is your country so corrupt that it's beyond repair? Where are the good men and women of India who should be outraged that their country is starting to only be known for it's scam call centers?

Comment Moo (Score 1) 2

Still here occasionally, though /. is only one of several sites whose RSS feeds I follow...and it's not one that I check every day. I couldn't say when I last posted a journal entry; I'd have to look it up. Things that would've gotten a journal entry in the past tend to be posted on my blog instead, and even those posts are rather irregular.

Comment Re: I assume this is most of the developed world (Score 1) 69

I used to have years worth of Rainbow magazines for the CoCo, which all got destroyed in a flood in the mid 2000's.

Is there an archive (whether fully legal or otherwise) of those magazines of which you could acquire a copy? The publisher of Nibble made the whole collection available on DVD a while back for a reasonable cost, so I snagged a copy and read it into my media server.

Before my decades-long involvement with the Apple II, I learned BASIC on my grandfather's CoCo and was starting to pick up 6809 assembly language before moving overseas. I have a CoCo 2 packed away in storage that I picked up cheap in the '90s and wouldn't mind picking up some of the magazines, such as Rainbow, that were available for it.

Comment Re: I assume this is most of the developed world (Score 1) 69

JuicedGS is still in print.

Do magazines for legacy/retrocomputing/obsolete/whatever platforms count? If so, I suspect there are several other publications still extant. For most people and most purposes, though, I'd be inclined to say it doesn't count.

(I say this as an owner of multiple Apple IIGSes (and some IIes and a II+), though I've never subscribed to Juiced.GS. I had a Nibble subscription from 1985 until publication ended in the mid-90s (and had a program published in the April 1990 issue), and an Open-Apple/A2-Central subscription from a few years later.)

Comment Re: It's also about the software (Score 1) 81

Indeed - I have run Linux in 4MB!

Well, yes, but OP was talking about full-on distros

I've run a "full-on distro" (think it was SLS, installed from a binder full of 5.25" floppies) in 4 MB of RAM, with an X server and everything (think I was using twm with it). It was on a 386SX with 120 MB of disk and 4 MB of RAM, and it was probably the better part of 30 years ago now, but it was doable...even usable, as I recall, at least by the standards of the time.

Comment Re:amazing this is even an issue (Score 1) 140

Ford has spent an enormous amount of money to only sell 1336 F-150 Lightnings.

To put this number in perspective, Ford ordinarily shifts about a half-million F-150s every year. The gas models are huge sellers. Electric? Not so much.

On a whim, I thought I'd compare the F-150 Lightning to an expensive (2-4x) car that's not expected to put up huge sales numbers: the Porsche 911. In 2022, you know how many 911s shipped? 7419, and I think that's only in the US. Even something as exclusive as the 911 managed to outsell the F-150 Lightning by more than 5-to-1.

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 81

You might also try hitting up your favorite news site's RSS feed instead. Even if the feed only has a summary, there are scripts that will pull the full text of the article and inject that into the feed that your reader shows. I do this with a news site that has gotten more aggressive with its paywall and anti-adblock measures recently; full news articles are still coming through that I can browse with a feed reader.

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 81

In the days before the WEB, newspapers and magazines had ads, but they were such people could ignore them. Plus easy enough for people to look for them. I knew a few who liked the ads in the "old" media and would go through them.

In a few cases, the ads were pretty much the whole point of the publication. Computer Shopper was one such example. I built my first x86 box in the early '90s by scouring the ads in Computer Shopper for parts and following some books and a videotape that showed how everything went together. In a few hours, I had a 12-MHz 286 with a 120-MB hard drive and a 14.4-kbps modem that took over running my BBS from an Apple IIe (with a 40-MB hard drive and a 2400-bps modem). When I added DESQview to the mix, I could even do some maintenance tasks in the background while the BBS kept answering calls. Good times.

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