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Effectively an ATM-style interface?


Yeah, actually. But maybe a bit nicer. Think like 2-4 dials that have multiple functions (adjust temp, volume, seat warmer, etc.) with a small OLED to indicate which, then like 4-6 buttons above the dials (but below the screen) that have ATM style multi-function with the infotainment screen (or themselves have small OLEDs).


The CPU isn't the only user of power. The CPU may be 20% more efficient, but the screen and radio probably aren't.


And memory is also a large user of power budget. This is exactly right… larger and brighter screens, better wifi, BT, and cellular systems, more memory, and higher system speeds (because you know that 20% more efficient processor is X% faster offsetting that efficiency) all eat up that power budget.


Here in Austin, Texas, there's a cooperatively-owned software development and design business called Vulk Coop. They've hosted a series of meetups and happy hours for people to talk about the co-op model and how it relates. However, it's not anti-capitalistic, just worked-owned. Details at https://vulk.coop/ and https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Software-Co-operatives/


I worked at Palm during the development of webOS, both before the Pre was launched, then again in developer relations and framework development after it came out. I'm very happy to see this archive of the great work the community created around these devices.

If you want to archive my old Twitter feed, https://twitter.com/webostips, that might be useful for the help section. It really only ran in 2009-2010, as I got too busy after returning to Palm from my stint at Mozilla.


I see Roku too, from your Profile. That means you've worked on three of my favorite platforms!


It was coming... the WindsorNot design was just a slab with no keyboard, IIRC. https://www.webosnation.com/windsornot-webos-slate-smartphon...


I picked up an HP Touchpad during the fire sale and remember being surprised by how good the keyboard was at the time compared to an ipad or android tablet -- especially given how those had been on the market so much longer.


If you like this, check out the 4am collection on archive.org (https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am) - the Apple II hacker posts detailed logs of their cracking techniques for each title. Here's an example of the crack note for Datasoft's Pac-Man port (https://ia600508.us.archive.org/20/items/PacManDatasoft4amCr...)


I looked at several logos and saw that they were missing the registered trademark or trademark symbols. Those shouldn't be removed when making the vector versions, as they're part of the logo.


From what I've seen, the tiny Palm Phone (from TCL) didn't do very well, but there's still some inventory on Amazon: https://palm.com/pages/product.

There's also the Cyrcle Phone (https://www.cyrclephone.com/) which doesn't seem to be for sale anymore after its Kickstarter and Indie Go Go campaigns.


> From what I've seen, the tiny Palm Phone (from TCL) didn't do very well, but there's still some inventory on Amazon: https://palm.com/pages/product.

The battery is the main issue, about 2h of use or 1 day if in power saving mode with every optimization applied.

It's still good enough as a travel phone, turned on only when I need to call.


The Cyrcle Phone doesn't look small at all, just in a different shape. Also from the video shots it looked like the UI wasn't very well adapted to it's screen shape.


There are tons on ebay for good prices!


Also in play is that some parties have patents on certain kinds of control systems using CEC, so just implementing something that seems useful can get a device manufacturer in legal trouble :(


For 6502 fans, there's a new port of Clang and LLVM that seems to be doing some nice code generation. See https://llvm-mos.org/


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