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The Geek on Skates@GeekOnSkates

December 07, 2022

PDA Week, Day 1

I've continued playing with my Apple Newton emulator. The more I do, the more I wish my iPhone were one... well, sorta. I'll get to that later. 🤣

So the emulator removes what for me would be its biggest pain point: lighting. One thing I've learned - from my childhood experiences with the original Game Boy, from my present-day experiences with the TRS-80 Model 100, and from the YouTube video I just watched - retro mobile = no backlighting and monochrome color. Which is rad... if you can see it. As a kid I loved Game Boy's tetris, but struggled with games that had "better" graphics. And the M-100, I need to literally hold up to my face to read. I can't imagine paying a thousand bucks for a PDA that looks like this. So now that I've learned about what it really was, idk that it's something I would necessarily want in 2020... unless it were an app that worked "off-line" (and I've read somewhere that this Einstein thing has ports for Android/iOS, if you can build from source for those platforms - maybe next year...?). If the emulator works offline - and especially if it lets you hand-write notes like the guy did in that third screenshot (no touch-screen keyboard! Sweet!) I would totally use it for taking notes at church, setting reminders for not-work-related stuff (cuz yeah, Outlook kinda dominates my work calendar needs, whether I like it or not lol) and so on. With modern zoom and the white background, I could get used to this thing!

Anyway, that aside, I realized I'm the only one (afaik) talking about the Newton. Lunduke has moved on to "Palm OS", which I will hopefully play with this weekend. I've also been watching vids about PDA's, and about to see one about the "Psion 7". So I'll probably look at one of those next. Any suggestions (and emulators)? :)

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

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Linus Says Rust Formatting is "Bass-Ackwards Garbage"

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

October 06, 2025

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

October 06, 2025

NixOS Mod Admits Reason for Coup is "Trump"

Also, NixOS delays release "Due to Recent Events". Aka... the attempted coup.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

November 22, 2023

The futility of Ad-Blockers

Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

November 21, 2023

openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"

Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

September 13, 2023

"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

18 hours ago

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

September 18, 2025

Final Reminder: Lifetime Price Increase in 24 hours

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This Friday (September 19th), the price of a new Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal will be increasing from $200 to $300.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

September 15, 2025

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The Lunduke Journal regular live-streaming is back! The next show is Tuesday, September 16th (tomorrow) at 1pm Eastern (10am Pacific, 5pm UTC).

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