while Sadie, the female, has a pearl-colored coat, giving her a striking black appearance.

Huh.

Prolly, just search USB to serial adapter, and DB9 to DIN 8 serial

Yeah you’re just paying a premium for not needing two cables/an adapter.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Converter-Prolific-Chipset-CB-DB9P/dp/B00IDSM6BW

https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Male-Connector-Cable-Converter/dp/B010ESEZU8

Should be the same thing for half the price.

$50 for a USB adapter? Isn’t it just an rs232? You can find an 8 pin din to normal db9, then any usb to serial adapter.

I can’t speak for the h1000, but my eMate 300 runs off modern rechargeable AAs perfectly. I replaced the rechargeable battery pack with my own home made one.

I essentially did this: http://newtonpoetry.com/2009/04/13/how-to-install-a-new-newton-emate-battery-pack/

Even then that process sucks too. If you’re bleeding edge it takes a while for them to support new GPUs. And even when they do, the process can be ass/gives you ancient drivers.

I just do it on fedora 43 and it SUCKED. I ran into so many errors, and even then I still have issues. Distros like mint make it easy, but you’re usually on crusty ass drivers and probably a pretty old kernel.

What conflict? I haven’t had issues like that in probably 10+ years.

Hell my one laptop has all 3 major vendors drivers installed and working simultaneously. Intel iGPU, Nvidia dGPU and AMD eGPU.

Drivers are part of the kernel.

But if you want to manually install your own drivers (say Nvidia proprietary ones) god forbid that’s an obnoxious process. It makes windows driver hell look quaint.

If you’re going from Nvidia to Nvidia for AMD to AMD and you’re on the latest drivers already you probably don’t even have to uninstall them. When I last upgraded my GPU I just took the old one out and put the new one in and it just worked.

Unironically the laundry detergent. Legos are cool for the 30 seconds you’re building them, then they just take up space. Plus they’re just the perfect item for me to feel absolutely terrible about giving away/throwing away.

Are you spending them on things you were already going to buy, or are you buying frivolous stuff?

7s the exact same. 7 added the ability to combine 2.4 5 and 6ghz bands into one connection. But in my experience the speed difference vs just 6ghz is negligible. Instead of 2gig over WiFi you get closer to 2.4. Woo.

You probably can, just nobody bothers to do it. My Subaru has installable apps. Hell older Hondas (and possibly current ones) just run android. You can even get to the regular android UI on them.

That’s nothing to do with android auto/car play and entirely down to the manufacturer of your car being an asshat.

Is it a Mazda? Mazda is one of the worst about this. I think they’ve gotten better in their latest cars, but that doesn’t fix the existing ones.

I love trackballs, but no amount of mouse acceleration can make them not a pain in the ass on multiple high res monitors. I love em, but I just can’t use em.

All else being equal I prefer foss software over proprietary. But I use the best tool for the job. If it’s proprietary then so be it.

…no they can’t. Do you realize just how thick modern camera bumps are? Even not including the bump phones nowadays are thicker than phones 5 years ago.

The iPhone X was 7.7mm thick. The iPhone 17 pro excluding the bump is 8.7.

Phones 5 years ago have lightyears worse cameras than phones today.

Yeah I have zero qualms with my phone running slower if it means it doesn’t randomly reboot. That was the whole reason why Apple implemented it in the first place.

Lineage OS supports the Pixel tablet. But they don’t seem to be very cheap used even though it’s a couple years old.