Notices by p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website), page 2

OMG I can't believe it, they finally did it! Somebody made a graphing calculator with ~modern hardware and got it approved for use in exams!

https://www.numworks.com

I've been complaining about TI being able to sell their _ancient_ tech at new prices for so long. I hope TI never moves another unit

Interesting design decisions like: it has only 256KB of RAM! Software runs on bare metal without a third party kernel.

Code is CC BY-NC-ND, so not Free, but less user-hostile than I was expecting.

WOW TIL
- The .cz TLD is run by a non-profit
- who makes GPL3-licensed software and
- an awesome open-hardware wifi router
-- that has an mSATA connector!
https://omnia.turris.cz/en/

SONNY DID I EVER TELL YOU ABOUT MY NEW EBOOK WORKFLOW
yes grandad a thousand times
YOU SEE I TAKE APART EPUBS AND CONVERT THEM TO MARKDOWN FOR
uniformity and compressability, i know
BUT YOU SEE MOST RESEARCH PAPERS ARE
pdfs that are hard to read on your old ass reader, you told me
SO I HAD A GREAT IDEA
you're going to ask t-
I'LL ASK AUTHORS FOR LATEX SOURCES
and cur-
AND CURATE A REPO OF MY FAVORITE PAPERS
sigh
SO I CAN RERENDER FOR ANY SCREEN!
grandad computers have been illegal since 2024

in the video game "particle fleet: emergence," the tools that your spacefaring corporate crew need to defeat the alien threat, and without which all humanity dies, are unavailable until such time that they acquire a software license to use them. then they just turn on.

i was unprepared for this level of realism from a video game

BeOS (and now Haiku) implements e-mail like this: the list of e-mails is just your file browser; Haiku's "attributes" provides e-mail specific columns. Opening one of those files launches a viewer app. (Usually 'Mail' but the user can change it)

Your address book? Also just a directory, with address-book-appropriate "attributes."

Your music library? Same

I think it's tragic that we've abandoned this kind of convergence to work within a powerful hierarchical data-table browser widget.