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I've been using my Toshiba netbook for two days and I love/hate it.
The keyboard is very unergonomic. Maybe that's the reason netbooks are not popular anymore.
To find software that supports i686 machines is harder than expected. What's the purpouse of high level languages if not abstract the machine? Also I have found *zero* modern web browsers available for i686. Dillo works great for non-js websites, which are not a lot, sadly. Anything based on webkit crashes and I should try to find out why.
TUI/CLI stuff works OK, of course (Now I'm tooting with toot-cli), which kinda makes this thing ideal for hanging out in tilde servers.
But in general, it feels very cool to not need more than 32bits addr space and 2 GiB of RAM to do stuff. Of course I don't need a supercomputer to read some toots and to read some email!
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Upgrading this Toshiba NB105.
Fortunately DDR2 prices are not that crazy. I also replaced the keyboard and the drive.
My cat is helping me with the cat hair inside the netbook.
#netbook #toshibaNB100 #toshibanb105 #refurbished #cat #catsofmastodon
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So, I found this netbook and decided to fix it.
First step was easy: I tested NetBSD on it. (because it's a netbook, you see? 😜)
But the unit is in a sorry state. A USB port is so rusty that it doesn't work. I left the battery in a recycling point of my city because it was not safe to handle. Lots of keys from the keyboard doesn't work at all, etc, etc.
Let's see if I can find good parts for it. If you know where I can purchase parts for a Toshiba NB105 (NB100 series) in Spain or the EU, please let me know.