NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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NireBryce
@NireBryce

the world's ballsiest power button, second only to an OS that makes ctrl-S shut down your computer


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

fortunately that I/O key is for Suspend, which turns off the LCD, halts the CPU, and locks the keyboard. The Poqet PC's CPU is stopped between keystrokes unless it's updating the screen, leading to a battery life of 50-100 hours of use (in non-CPU-intensive applications) from a pair of AA batteries. Poqet also had a patent on a combination of a variable-voltage (based on current) power supply and variable-frequency (based on supply voltage) CPU clock but I'm not sure that was implemented.

the thing's pretty much PC compatible. it'll run lotus 1-2-3. this one barely works; the screen has lines and fades due to cable failure, the case is coming apart, and some of the keyboard keys produce a dozen spurious keystrokes per press. i'm told they barely worked to begin with. still a very clever little device, and the first of its kind


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oh, i had figured that key meant Input/Output because that's what I/O usually means, and it looks awfully similar. i'm familiar with the power symbol, i just had never seen it separated like that aside from on rocker switches for power strips and the like, where it's much more obvious it's meaning, imo. but i guess doing it in red is meant to reinforce that it's a power related thing.

regardless, that is a pretty dumb place to put it, even if it's just suspend.

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