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  1. I got #linux 7.2 booting on my #Palm IIIxe and #Handspring #Visor! #nommu now to get my graffiti workalike working properly. (The stowaway keyboard works great for now. #ed is perfect on the 32x20 char fbcon) #busybox #buildroot. (See github.com/jsmemfault/uclinux)

  2. Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money...

    "Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.."

    "...The Pacific Islanders came, they died, they were buried like dogs and more were sent for.” >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #slavery #Blackbirding #SouthSeaIslander #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #PastoralIndustry #sugar #cotton #plantations #PALM #books

  3. Focus on Coffs Harbour and Nambucca Valley

    "NSW modern slavery report calls for urgent reform to protect migrant workers."

    "A NSW parliamentary report into modern slavery has detailed "harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm..The report asked the government to investigate allegations of systemic labour exploitation in Coffs Harbour and the Nambucca Valley."

    "NSW Anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne said in a statement the report was "informed by evidence from almost 100 witnesses across NSW, including victim survivors of modern slavery, and 60 submissions"." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw
    #exploitation #PALM #MidNorthCoast #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #CoffsHarbour #NambuccaValley #food #harm #slavery #plantations #regulation

  4. I just got the 7.2 #Linux #nommu kernel booting on both my #Palm IIIxe and my Visor — both equipped with stowaway keyboards, making it reasonably usable. #uclinux #68000 #dragonball #pda

  5. Holy McCow, I forgot how teeeensy the original #Palm's 160x160 display was.

    And I'm only viewing it on a WXGA (1366x768) screen, not even 1080 or anything!!

    https://the-gadgeteer.com/2001/02/06/pocketmail_backflip_review/

    #PDA #PDAs @inlovewithpda

  6. I went to my first repair cafe today. I took this, thinking that they'd probably be unable to repair it, but in that case I'd be no worse off.

    Happily, they were able to repair it, and I am now the proud owner of a working 26-year-old PDA 🙂​

    #RepairCafe #Palm

  7. Still chipping away at my note-taking migration from Evernote to Obsidian

    More than six months into the biggest switch of productivity apps I’ve undertaken since I stopped using Microsoft Word for everyday writing, I’m relieved to report that moving to a new note-taking app has so far involved much less drama than I expected. Or deserved, considering I staged this cutover right before my busiest workweek of the year.

    But my transition from Evernote to Obsidian–spurred by Evernote’s owners at the Italian firm Bending Spoons sticking me with a 92 percent rate increase that was going to land two days before the start of CES–isn’t complete either. Here’s how things have come along to date:

    • Import: I had a choice of note-taking apps that could import notes from the app I’d used regularly since 2010 (Microsoft’s OneNote not among them, ruling it out even though I already pay for it with my Microsoft 365 subscription). The biggest hassle with migrating some 15 years worth of notes turned out to be on Evernote’s end–its cap of 100 notes per export. Obsidian imported every batch without complaint but not without formatting glitches that I could not have avoided in an app based on the Markdown formatting system. And then I only realized Thursday morning that I had somehow failed to bring over about two years of notes from one notebook; about 10 minutes later, I had remedied that oversight.
    • Filename games: Obsidian’s implementation of the text format that Apple developer and blogger John Gruber released in 2004 (see Anil Dash’s recap of Markdown’s unlikely ascent) saves notes as individual files with names derived from their titles. But since characters like a colon and a slash are illegal filename bits in many of the operating systems Obsidian supports, this clashed with my habit of including dates in mm/dd/yyyy format in the titles of notes from specific events. Obsidian usually took out the slashes, leaving it to me to insert dashes in their place to restore sense to smushed-together date-digit strings like “6122018,” but in a few cases the Mac app gave up and renamed a note “Untitled.”
    • Mastering Markdown: I feel like I’ve had to reprogram part of my brain to deal with Markdown’s note-title restrictions, but this is nowhere near the first time I’ve done something like that for the sake of note-taking efficiency (for example, the way I hand-write a capital G remains influenced by Palm OS Graffiti). Markdown also uses a syntax of markup characters to format strings of text, which Obsidian hides in practice with the usual keyboard shortcuts and formatting buttons… except when I edit, select or tap inside a word that’s already been formatted, which surfaces the hidden markup characters around it. I find these compromises a reasonable price for the long-term reward of using a lock-in-resistant format that nobody owns and which any text-editing app can read.
    • Writing: Note-taking has always been a text-first experience for me, going back to Palm handheld organizers, and Obsidian has proved pleasantly efficient in that while delivering two unexpected advances over Evernote. One is a tiny bit of input acceleration: When I type a quotation mark or parenthesis, Obsidian automatically adds the closing character in front of the cursor. The other is a feature that’s mandatory in word processors but uncommon in note apps: a word count you can have displayed in the bottom right corner, and which responds to your selection of a block of text by showing the words and characters in that selection.
    • Syncing: The part of Evernote I was most reluctant to leave behind was the synchronization that Bending Spoons had immensely improved, to the point where I accepted a steep rate hike at the end of 2023. Obsidian doesn’t match Evernote’s near-real-time sync, which let me see characters I’d typed on one device appear an instant later in another device’s copy of Evernote. But Obsidian’s optional sync service, $48 a year, is damn fast on its own, generally getting edits from device to device in under five seconds. And because every note is a text file, I can get a note from my phone to my laptop even when both are offline: plug the phone into the laptop via USB, open Obsidian’s folder on the phone in Windows Explorer, and open the file in any text-editing app.
    • Security: Obsidian Sync features end-to-end encryption between devices by default, a security feature I have come to appreciate more after seeing how the Trump administration is willing to treat certain journalists. The tradeoff of that approach and its device-to-device architecture is not having any Web app for Obsidian–but since I almost never used Evernote’s Web app, I can live with that.
    • Plug-ins: Obsidian’s resolutely indie developers tout the ability to extend and augment the app with some of the 5,500-plus plug-ins available. I’m not entirely sold on this tinkering-required approach, since some of these–in particular, the Importer plug-in maintained by Obsidian’s own developers–provide capabilities so essential that they shouldn’t require in-app downloading. In other cases, there are so many plug-ins for a specific task that I’ve postponed picking one. That said, I will put in a plug for the free Notebook Navigator, which lets you switch between notes and folders in a simple tree-style interface like the one I got used to in Evernote.
    • Incomplete items: After succumbing to paralysis via analysis when looking at all of the different audio-transcription options, I opted to outsource that task to a third-party app–the Google Recorder app on my Pixel 9 Pro, which does its AI transcription offline. But I have yet to find any plug-in that can match Evernote’s ability to scan and digitize business cards for easy access to people’s contact details. That is why the desk in front of this keyboard now features a stack of recently-collected business cards two inches tall, held together with an elastic band until I can find some other way to save the useful bits from them in a searchable way. Any suggestions?
    #AITranscription #businessCardScanning #Evernote #GoogleRecorder #handheldOrganizer #interviewTranscription #Markdown #notebook #NotebookNavigator #notes #Obsidian #ObsidianPlugIns #Palm #PalmOS #takingNotes
  8. #palm : the inner surface of the hand

    - French: paume

    - German: die Palme, die Handfläche

    - Italian: palma

    - Portuguese: palma

    - Spanish: palma

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  9. Cadiz, June 2026 - 14 / 23
    Incredibly hot day (pretty much like today)… the ice cream stand felt like a time machine to my childhood summer days…
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    📷 : Ricoh GR IV
    #photography #photo #ricoh #ricohgriv #grist #travel #cadiz #spain #summer #verano #icecream #stall #icecreamstand #palm #urban

  10. I finally got one of last missing #palm #PDA Modell in my collection: Palm Tungsten W

    The first palm "smartphone".

  11. Уникальный смартфон из 2002'ого с процессором m68k и GPU: инженерное чудо Palm i710

    Мы все с вами привыкли, что начиная с 2000 года, на рынке мобильных процессоров доминирует ARM. Сегодня устройства на базе данной архитектуры окружают нас везде: смартфоны, колонки, вейпы, часы и многие другие устройства. Однако раньше всё было не так и когда-то основным конкурентом ARM была легендарная компания Motorola... В 90-х годах, Motorola m68k был знаковым процессором. Он использовался во десятках легендарных устройств: компьютерах Mac, телефонах StarTAC и КПК от компании Palm. И в 2002 году, Palm представила свой первый коммуникатор — i710, который сочетал в себе классический процессор из 90-х и современный радиомодуль. Сегодня мы с вами разберем это чудо инженерной мысли, изучим его схемотехнику и компонентную базу, и узнаем, на что был способен этот красавец на практике. Если любите настоящие технарские статьи — жду вас под катом :)

    habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/

    #monobogdan_ништячки #palm #palm_os #m68k #motorola #почитать #интересное #tungsten #tungsten_w #timeweb_статьи