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Farooq | فاروق

As a personal opinion, I think some folks pay too much attention to the old things(like #retrocomputing). I think there are so many good things in the old things. And I also agree the modern computing age has tons of caveats. But instead of hanging on the old, we should take inspiration and make things for the feature to escape this hole we are currently stuck in.

I would say a wiser way to spend time is making retro style but modern computers which actually solve a problem. Like I said before, you can do a lot with something like a Raspberry Pi Pico, if you have the right set of tools and software ecosystem. Then we could have dirt cheap computers which actually solve a problem. Rather than just pure nostalgia.

I wish a group would form to write proper Operating System for some cheap #SBC, let's say Amlogic S905X or even #milkvduo and try to form an ecosystem around it.

If our softwares were written correctly and not like half of our desktop softwares were actually bloated #Electron apps, we could get so far with only 2GB of RAM.

Think about it, a school pays only like 300 USD for a dozen of these SBCs and they could use it for like a decade!

Mark Moxon

It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron.

This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM.

Here are the links:

* Play in your browser: 0xc0de6502.github.io/electroni

* More info about the Electron version: elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite

* Download links: elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite

* All about the Compendium: elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite

Right on, Commanders!

#retrocomputing#retrogaming
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ThePfromtheO

"#Mozilla can press on with independent subprojects such as #Thunderbird owners #MZLA #Technologies #Corporation. The popular #Electron #framework is based on #Chromium. It's too late to change that, even if maybe #Servo may one day offer an #alternative. But if #Thunderbird sucked in #Libpurple, it wouldn't matter if #Slack and #Teams and so on used #Electron, as Thunderbird could talk to the servers directly."
"But pointing at what we'd like to see is attempting to #treat the #symptoms and not the #disease. Is there a way to #encourage Mozilla to be an #organized, #focused, #professional #business, with #eyes keenly set on a clearly defined #goal? Perhaps that's the wrong #question. Perhaps that shouldn't be the goal at all. For all that the #Linux business is #huge, no #company #develops the #kernel. They all #cooperate on it. The #Linux #Foundation #funds it, but doesn't really #guide it."
"One #observer has been #spectating and #commentating on Mozilla since before it was a foundation – one of its original co-#developers, #JamieZawinksi. He has been accurately #cataloging Mozilla's #failings for #years."

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