Specs:
- CPU: StrongArm SA1110 @ 190MHz
- RAM/ROM: 32MB (shared)
- Storage: 256MB SanDisk CF-Card
- Display: 640x480 256 colour CSTN LCD
- OS: Windows CE Handheld PC Professional
That's what my previous job did exactly - I put my application in and answered some custom questions they had. My future supervisor calls me and we talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked me to come in for an actual interview. Did the interview and next week found out I was hired.
Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand
I imagine you could filter it with uBlock right?
I can't afford to donate to them currently, so have a Lemmy silver to go towards you !lemmysilver
I imagine a lot of these went that way unfortunately, including this one. They were difficult to use on Windows 95 onwards as far as I've found due to the SVGA resolution being interlaced, making them more tempting to toss once the Osborne PC became obsolete.
It's quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s, but I suppose when you have a completely offline system that already meets your needs, then it can't really go obsolete.
Thanks for the heads up - it'll stay as a very occasional use monitor until I either feel comfortable enough to look inside (after lots of research, given the voltages within) or find a friend experienced in CRTs. I really wouldn't want to blow it up when it could've been prevented easily by maintaining it.
Thank you both for the advice, this was exactly what I needed - I know absolutely nothing about CRT maintenance but I have tinkered inside plenty other electronics before.
Before I do anything on it I'll be doing all the research I can to ensure it's as safe as possible and avoiding areas that can't be discharged, and otherwise hunting within my friend circles for a CRT guy who can help me with it.
Edit: this will all serve as a lesson for me taking on a more ambitious project I have, an iMac G3 that doesn't post. Unsure at this stage if the CRT works or not in it, but I believe something is wrong with the PC's PSU currently
Welllllllll.... A couple points to mention are that it is SVGA but interlaced, so I'm doing a bit of messing with xrandr to get that working but otherwise it is happy doing 800x600 progressive
I also meant that I didn't need to do any work to it - it has a couple minor issues as mentioned but didn't have any major components that have failed (like the flyback for instance)
Also yes I'm based in Australia so 240v is standard here
The ultimate plan is to have a full retro setup, and I will piece it together as I come across more components that I think will fit.
The dream would be a PC from about 2000, running Win2k but dual booted with something old like Win3.11 and/or DOS, and period accurate (but still comfortable) peripherals, so keyboard, mouse, and speakers.
Until I get a nice computer to pair with it (that is, not my Linux server), this just felt right to do with it
Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works
Last week I made a post asking if I should buy an old vintage monitor.
Well, I went back to the recycled goods store this week and it was still there, so $30 later I have it, and it seems to just work
There's very little about this monitor on the internet, so I'm thinking of documenting as much as I can about it, especially as it's Osborne branded so there could be some interesting history behind it.
The power button is stuck on, and it does an occasional unsettling arc sound and the image slightly distorts for a millisecond. I believe the latter is fairly common among old CRTs but I don't know much more than that.
That was ultimately what I did - apart from a single instance, I haven't logged into my Reddit account since the API changes.
I feel that any engagement is good to them (even with an adblocker), not to mention when spez said "You'll all come back."
I was so sad when my Nexus 7 gave up the ghost (quite literally fizzled and nothing more) but I got a solid 10 years out of it.
I loved how easy they were to work on, the NFC, the unlockable bootloader, the ROM support, headphone jack of course. We didn't know how good we had it then.
It's very likely that I saw a repost, but I also remember that imagery on Reddit too, so you aren't alone (on Lemmy at least) in coming across that post. Wish I had a link or something to help you find it.
I've never really given any credibility to the Tiananmen Square denials but that post cemented any possible doubt I could have had.
I just had a quick play around with it, HEIC converter is something I didn't know I needed (I have a large backup from my iPhone which has HEICs), and I like the .eml parser just to name a couple.
I'll be adding this to my server for sure. Thanks for sharing
Hey ChatGPT, I'm a dork who works for a local council and we are cutting costs by removing two bins from a local forestry. Can you come up with a sign that spins the removal of these bins into a positive?
Can you imagine the confusion of a dead animal just falling in your front yard and witnessing that? This coworker's spawning a whole ass religion
I totally agree, they're mad little machines. I'm only selling mine because I can't stand the combined touchpad/track point setup Lenovo did in that generation and I quickly replaced it with an X260. Both of them are capable of damn good battery life (I get about 5-6 hours from my X260)
I've been planning on selling a couple older laptops (Latitude E6420 and ThinkPad X240) and this is a fantastic idea. The former laptop doesn't even have Windows 10 drivers (that I know of)
I've considered CalyxOS but prefer the hardening of GrapheneOS with no gapps - still means a phone decent on privacy. However I do try to keep an open mind, so if CalyxOS has additional privacy benefits to my existing setup I'd be interested.
I agree with the proprietary style of ProtonMail point, and my workaround for multiple accounts has been to use my own domain and have email rules for delivering messages to the respective folder. I don't have immediate plans to move from them, but I am watching the news cycle and have considered Tuta as an alternative.
I haven't used ReVanced, but I remember the original YouTube Vanced was a mod of the original YouTube apk - if that's still the case, I feel like ReVanced would offer even less privacy than Invidious or NewPipe. However I'm happy to be corrected.
I personally use Nextcloud notes but the Obsidian setup you have sounds interesting, especially if it's like OneNote - I'll keep it in mind!
Completely agree on your Nextcloud points - I uploaded my uncompressed Telegram archive to it, which took like 12 hours over my Gigabit lan. I suspect it hated the sheer amount of small files
Been degoogled for years at this point:
- Stock Android --> LineageOS or GrapheneOS (no gapps)
- YouTube --> Invidious, NewPipe
- Google Search --> DuckDuckGo, Brave Search
- Google Play Store --> F-Droid, Aurora Store
I've also decoupled from other similar services:
- Outlook --> ProtonMail
- Calendar --> Nextcloud
- OneDrive --> Nextcloud
- Windows, macOS --> Linux (after years of distrohopping, I found LMDE is incredibly stable while still being a nice "out of box" distro)
- Google Maps, Apple Maps --> OSMAnd, Organic Maps
I never used any online password manager myself, I went from writing passwords in a literal book to KeePass, to now Vaultwarden for that
- self hosted
Osborne MPV 1024 CRT monitor - worth buying?
Hello!
I came across a cosmetically good condition CRT monitor at the local recycled goods shop, but I can't seem to find much information about it.
It is an Osborne MPV 1024 14" CRT monitor. I was able to find a manual for it on the Internet Archive, and an old forum question about using it with a then new Windows 95 machine, but that's about it.
The thing that confuses me though is that I wasn't aware of Osborne making individual computer monitors, or peripherals of any kind. I also don't seem to see anyone online talking about these monitors.
I want to find out if it's rare or otherwise special in some way, or if it's just a generic CRT monitor of the 80s/90s that just reused the Osborne branding.
Found a security bug in LMDE6, need some help
I have an older Intel laptop that has a 1600x900 display, and I find that if I put the machine to sleep, connect an external monitor with a higher resolution, and then turn it back on, the login screen doesn't adjust to the new resolution and it reveals what I had open (see photo).
However, I'm not that familiar with Linux Mint (even though I've daily driven Linux for nearly 10 years, I very casually use LMDE) and I'm not sure if this is a Cinnamon problem or if the lock screen is under a different program.
Looking at Linux Mint's webpage on reporting a bug (https://projects.linuxmint.com/reporting-an-issue.html) they seem to mostly use Cinnamon as an example, but I don't want to report this issue as a Cinnamon issue if it's the wrong project.
In case this is platform specific, my device's details are below:
- Host: Dell Latitude E6420
- CPU: Intel Core i7-2630QM (Sandy Bridge)
- GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
- Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64
- DE: Cinnam