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eddiewalker posted:The handwriting recognition only worked if you were willing to learn their special system of glyphs. The very late PalmOS devices had essentially natural recognition, if, ah, you naturally wrote something like grade school print. Only the Ts and 4s were fussy, really.
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Slanderer posted:Except that it's a feature that few people want, so even if chipsets support it, the carriers aren't going to write the software to support it. I don't think my iPhone-sized hardware is capable of communicating ad-hoc across five miles of oak forest, for instance. It'd be an exceptionally nice functionality in dense urban environments, though, except when you need to call 911 at two in the morning and nobody is on the streets except your assailants. e: Carriers need to write their own radios, to talk to their networks. Those are software-defined.
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Lurking Haro posted:So iPhones have the necessary software for any carrier worldwide loaded? iPhones have the necessary hardware for any network. They require a firmware element, the radio or baseband, to define the frequency bands to transmit and receive on, and the formats for transmitting and receiving on those bands, and to translate the software's data into the appropriate format, so that the hardware can transmit it. A GSM phone can connect to any network with the appropriate SIM because, as you say, the GSM protocol is standard, and because the provisioning is linked to the SIM; CDMA systems are linked to the device itself and don't give you any easy way of swapping networks because they're assholes, but it can still be done. Neither of these have anything to do with the physical radio; they're handled by the baseband. The transmitting hardware for an iPhone is identical regardless of carrier region, or network protocol; I won't guarantee that a CDMA handset has a SIM slot, as I haven't handled one. A Nexus 5 does, and in fact defaults to a LTE/CDMA/GSM radio mode. Sprint rolled out new, additional LTE bands not long ago, and they had to push a radio update to everyone so that their devices could use them. Updated basebands are typically released with OS updates, and you shouldn't have to know about it as a day to day user. Custom basebands do in fact exist to allow a handset to connect to other carrier's networks that they would otherwise be unable to recognize. Adding a new network band or protocol would involve writing that new network band and protocol into the baseband for whichever device you planned to use it with; unless your desired band was far outside those allocated for either wifi or mobile data use, you are correct, it would not require any custom hardware.
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robodex posted:Eh sort of. In reality, it's less "your carrier is holding an update back" and more "your carrier doesn't want to invest the time and money testing the update completely with their network and all their branded cruft." There's really no financial benefit for them to do it and it's one of the biggest and most glaring flaws with Android. In most cases it's the manufacturer holding the update back; Samsung needs to TouchWiz everything because they really want to be their own ecosystem, and HTC/LG/Motorola each to some degree want to customise their builds for their devices, maybe to use some exclusive functionality or whatever. Ceasing to update devices past one or two iterations is a decision largely based on the two-year cellphone upgrade life cycle, and partially on the sometimes huge fundamental differences between apparently incremental Android version updates.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:What about those dot matrix printers, eh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8RAbWs1yo
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I was very happy with my VAIO network for its entire tenure as my primary portable computer, although possibly because it replaced a 20" fuckoff desktop replacement laptop. It lacks the guts for even Vista, so after XP's end of life it got a Debian install, and does media duty on my TV. Its replacement is a Lenovo 'ultrabook', which fills the network's role pretty exactly, except while being usefully powerful. I've tried a tablet as a primary device and I really can't dig it. Perhaps it's just inertia, though.
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Lurking Haro posted:Unless it's rabbit That's a different disease.
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nihilistic_fish posted:I would think making GBS threads water would not help with water usage issues unless he was using his liquid shits to run the toilet or something... unless I am missing something? He just doesn't generate anything, though, the water is reabsorbed like normal. I can't remotely comprehend that it was done intentionally, mind you.
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If it conducts electricity, induction cooktops will work with it.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Do you need a special type of fire extinguisher for a NeXT cube then, or do you just have to let it burn out? Class D extinguishers, but if you have more than one of those fuckers on a bench you should basically just bail. In a pinch, a fuckload of sand and/or rocksalt is alright.
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SwiftKey definitely has options for arrow keys and a persistent number row.
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SwiftKey is third-party but has the ability to remove single strings.
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Nothing is obsolete about this, I don't give half a gently caress 
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Can't go through a USB-parallel intermediary?
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Humphreys posted:Na it's soley for a DB25 only host. I'm tearing down the original PCB and testing components (it's pretty dumb with a 7805, a diode, two caps and a DPDT relay) and tracing out the PCB for signs of failure due to corrosion. Would kinda like a new solution too as a backup/option. At that point I think I'd just roll my own, honestly.
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I'm big on swiftkey since 8pen died.
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Dec 15, 2021 12:09
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A vector crt does not have pixels, it has an uninterrupted layer of phosphor that the beam draws onto. The beam does not scan across the display line by line, it draws each shape and moves on.
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Where do you stand on, like, Hand Tool Rescue?
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