In the meantime, I would remind the people who would like to experience a vintage keyboard to take a look at the Unicomp model M keyboards. They are not Model Fs or beam spring, but are rock solid, reliable, and sensibly priced considering their quality.

I understand they are restarting production from scratch for a product that no longer exists and that nobody actually knows how to make, but being openly unreliable is a significant problem at this price point.

This lack of driver support for hardware that’s still functional and available in reasonable quantities is annoying.

I was very close to buying a retired POWER7+ server with an ungodly amount of memory, but decided being unable to run a modern Linux kernel would be more work than I wanted to have. Modern kernels need POWER8 and above.

OTOH, if these chips were fully supported, they wouldn’t hit the second hand market at the prices they do.

This lack of driver support for hardware that’s still functional and available in reasonable quantities is annoying.

I was very close to buying a retired POWER7+ server with an ungodly amount of memory, but decided being unable to run a modern Linux kernel would be more work than I wanted to have. Modern kernels need POWER8 and above.

There was a guy who hid explosives in a shoe and we had to take off our shoes for many years because of him.

The only thing it protects is the target. If there is a terrorist on board and they expose the fact they are aware of the bomb, or the bomb is minimally capable, the plane is doomed whatever they do.

> Do you think terrorists are really going to name their Bluetooth speaker "bomb"?

If they knew it was a BT speaker, they wouldn’t have returned.

OTOH, who would name a bomb with a Bluetooth transceiver in a way that advertises its function. I’d use something like “pacemaker” so that nobody would ask me to turn it off.

> There are only two countries in the entire South America

I am Brazilian and I can’t remember which countries you are talking about. I would expect none.

To be outside beyond the reach of the American legal system, in case the midterms don’t go the way he plans.

What a prescient video, and I wonder what happened to the consultancy with the remote programmers with their Texas Instruments terminals.

I wonder what OS was the BASIC programmer using - Nixdorf’s NIROS?

That is what we used to call a government. We pool together, choose who’ll manage the project, and fund it.

I doubt he’ll stop shaping America into what he thinks is great for him.