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Even worse the victim's daughter provided a description of the intruder when she called 911 (a woman wearing a red hoodie). When the cop saw a woman wearing a red hoodie trying to stab a black man in his underwear he chose to shoot the black man in his underwear.

The N900 was phenomenal for its time. One of the best smartphones ever made. If you just wanted to use it as a smartphone you could but if you wanted to dig deeper it was such a versatile and capable device.


I was an Audible subscriber for like five years when they started spamming my notifications with ads. I unsubscribed on the spot and haven't looked back. I couldn't believe it, I had probably given them $1000 by that point but apparently that wasn't good enough. Even if you give a company a significant amount of money they'll still do everything they can to squeeze even more money out of you.


I've been dreaming of a good "convergence" device that I can use as a phone but also dock and use as a PC for probably a decade at this point. I've kind of lost hope, it might happen some day but I doubt any time soon.


Not exactly the same but I use my Steamdeck for this while I'm traveling. It's honestly pretty nice. Although carrying around an old M1 mac with Asahi Linux on it isn't that much of a hassle either.


I do the same with my Steamdeck! It's really a remarkable device. I'm incredibly appreciative to Valve for making it open and Linux-based.

Desktop mode is pretty good, and it works with most hardware. It's plenty powerful enough to be a portable laptop, plus after the work is done you can pretty easily grab a few hours on a game :-D


Librem 5 phone runs a desktop OS without any artificial restrictions. It's CPU is relatively slow though as the OP mentioned.


One of the Sonic games for Sega Genesis had some weird trick you could do by only fully inserting one half of the cartridge.


Financial news headlines have been like that forever. They feel like they have to attribute the drop to something so they just come up with whatever sounds plausible. It doesn't even matter that they're often contradictory, like in a week I wouldn't be surprised if I saw the headline "Nasdaq 100 makes huge gains on AI's booming future."


There's a YouTube creator I follow who started using AI images for his thumbnails and it's very off-putting. It makes me not want to watch his videos.


I understand there's basically no market for them but I loved slide out keyboards. I miss the keyboard on my Motorola Droid daily.


This sort of fits the bill, even has its own screen.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807111740362.html

It's running a painfully weak N100 though.


Say what you will about VB6 but it was stupid simple to get GUI apps up and running.


It was stupid simple to get simple GUI apps up and running. More complicated apps were impossible. But, I think that's exactly what's missing in the Desktop GUI market right now. Webapps are incredibly easy to start apps with. You only need to know a few things and you can pick up the rest later as your app gets more complex. Modern desktop GUI systems are incredibly complicated, in comparison, just to open the window, let alone put text on the screen.


Later versions of Visual Studio with custom controls and other abstractions made fairly complex GUIs entirely doable and still pretty fast to build.

Then they shit canned everything for Xaml around the same time the whole industry abandoned any kind of WYSIWYG or rapid development technology.


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