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Tinker ☀️
@tinker@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Someone installed writerdeckOS onto a 32bit Sony Vaio P netbook!!!

Yay putting new life into old tech!

https://www.reddit.com/r/writerDeck/comments/1ojhua8/sony_vaio_p_writerdeck/

#writerdeckOS #permacomputing #solarPunk

A stock image of a Sony Vaio P held in hand to show scale. The old netbook is basically a minimal but full size keyboard with a short but wide screen to fit it. It's a small form factor. About as small as you can get and still have a fullish sized keyboard.
A stock image of a Sony Vaio P held in hand to show scale. The old netbook is basically a minimal but full size keyboard with a short but wide screen to fit it. It's a small form factor. About as small as you can get and still have a fullish sized keyboard.
A stock image of a Sony Vaio P held in hand to show scale. The old netbook is basically a minimal but full size keyboard with a short but wide screen to fit it. It's a small form factor. About as small as you can get and still have a fullish sized keyboard.
writerdeckOS running on a 32bit Sony Vaio P netbook. The screen shows the tilde text editing program with the text "Grown in a Garden of Misery. Page 1. Panel 2" written on the screen as a demo.
writerdeckOS running on a 32bit Sony Vaio P netbook. The screen shows the tilde text editing program with the text "Grown in a Garden of Misery. Page 1. Panel 2" written on the screen as a demo.
writerdeckOS running on a 32bit Sony Vaio P netbook. The screen shows the tilde text editing program with the text "Grown in a Garden of Misery. Page 1. Panel 2" written on the screen as a demo.
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Quinn9282 🖥️🌙✌️
@Quinn9282@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@tinker Great to see! I guess in retrospective, if the netbooks hadn't been basically forced to run a bloated version of Windows on the low performance/underpowered hardware they might've sold better in the long run. I think some of the early netbooks actually did use Linux for a time, though they didn't pan out well in the market and fizzled out into Windows instead, which was obviously much worse from a performance perspective.

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Bruno Philipe
@brunoph@breakpoint.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@tinker I love the form factor of those Vaio netbooks. Too bad they were so underpowered. I guess they probably work very well as a word processor.

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Tinker ☀️
@tinker@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@brunoph - Yeah, we built it off of Debian Bookworm 32bit from a very minimal install. Seems to run just fine.

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Evan Light
@elight@tenforward.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@tinker I miss those late 90s/early 2000's cute Akihabara computers!

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Sraars
@sraars@hippodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@tinker Man I remember when netbooks were going to be the next big thing.

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Tinker ☀️
@tinker@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@sraars - And they were... hahaha.... and they should still be... seriously....

I had an Acer Aspire 1 netbook and loved it.

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Sraars
@sraars@hippodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@tinker I had one at the time and installed Linux (I cannot recall which flavor) since Windows ran like ass on it.

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