Huldra

@huldratigress

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Born too late to be an uptight Babylonian priest, born too soon to explore the stars, born just in time to be mentally ill and die in the climate apocalypse

Huldra @huldratigress4/25/2023, 5:54 PM

gravis again @cathoderaydude

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/25/2023, 5:39 PM

trying to back up the hdd on this ancient little UMPC. working on these things feels like trying to cajole a small, injured animal into eating

"honey. hey darling. come on, eat the usb drive. i know you know this is Software. you like Software. come on. please christ you dumbass eat the Software i am trying to save your life you are The Last Of Your Kind please act in self preservation"

Huldra @huldratigress4/25/2023, 5:54 PM

Devices like this drive me nuts because a small part of me is like “that looks so cool, I want to buy one so I can install Linux on it and be the coolest person in my trans furry hacker discord” and another part of me realizes that trying to do anything even remotely useful on a 15-year-old UMPC would be like trying to launch a $30 model rocket into low-earth orbit. This is the most boring cyberpunk dystopia. Just let me have weird little gadgets.

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess4/25/2023, 6:37 PM

this looks unsettlingly like my old HTC Wizard from the mid-2000s (aka the T-Mobile MDA and others) but scaled up

@rotopenguin4/25/2023, 7:21 PM

Gravis mentioned it having a 3G option, so you could conceivably load up some god-awful phone app and hold it to your ear on the go.

Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess4/25/2023, 8:24 PM

his followup post says that can switch to Windows Mobile, so it is basically an HTC Wizard that's been scaled up. I am deeply horrified at the existence of this thing and I say that as someone who ran WiMo on my primary phone for longer than I probably should have

Sugar Meowth @dosmeow4/25/2023, 11:36 PM

Oh! I had that exact thumb drive before like a month when it accidentally went through the wash and was killed! Congats on not washing your thumb drives.

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gravis again @cathoderaydude4/25/2023, 5:57 PM

it's an 800 mhz chip related to the pentium m - essentially a P3. it can't do anything, yeah. and they stopped making new kinds of computer in 2009 so we're never going to get anything like this that can run 64 bit software. it's continuously sad

Huldra @huldratigress4/25/2023, 6:05 PM

Yah. I got a Flipper Zero recently, and it’s not all that useful, but it feels like the most Gadget™️ thing I’ve gotten in ages and I appreciate it for that alone

FavoritoHJS @FavoritoHJS5/26/2023, 1:34 AM

oh god no, a pentium III-class chip running Windows Vista.
This can't end well.