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by zero cool
Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:19 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: My EDC kit and tech bags
Replies: 14
Views: 3388

Re: My EDC kit and tech bags

Tomorrow will clearly be the day of feces. Exciting!
by zero cool
Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:13 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: My EDC kit and tech bags
Replies: 14
Views: 3388

Re: My EDC kit and tech bags

Sweet!

Right?! It's awesome. It's fun to see transparent and translucent electronics making a comeback, but it's a far cry from all the epic stuff that was available all those years ago.
I've started tinkering with XP again too! It's very fitting for that era for sure. I'm planning on doing XP for ...
by zero cool
Wed Jan 15, 2025 7:28 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: My EDC kit and tech bags
Replies: 14
Views: 3388

Re: My EDC kit and tech bags

It has, yeah! I hope you've been well! :D

Hehe, that's awesome! I've started meandering back even further to the turn of the millennium with all the quirky "y2k aesthetic" things. I just find it a lot more fun than all the black boring shit nowadays :D Also the tech gadgets are just way neater! A ...
by zero cool
Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:44 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: My EDC kit and tech bags
Replies: 14
Views: 3388

Re: My EDC kit and tech bags

Haha, thanks man! And welcome back! Long time no see. :D

They're running the latest supported OS they can natively run. I don't really feel like stabbing in the latest OS X version on such old hardware, and installing something else just turn them into "another laptop". But pretty much all software ...
by zero cool
Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:01 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Thinkpad X220 second life
Replies: 2
Views: 616

Re: Thinkpad X220 second life

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Neat project!
by zero cool
Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:48 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Thin client based milli-server
Replies: 2
Views: 1248

Re: Thin client based milli-server

Oh hey, nice little project! :D It's suitably ghetto and creative in the best possible way. Approved!
by zero cool
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:28 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: My EDC kit and tech bags
Replies: 14
Views: 3388

Re: My EDC kit and tech bags

Hehe, it's interesting how different use cases and ways to do things pave the way for very different approaches to things :D
by zero cool
Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:57 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Adding USB charging to a HP iPAQ from 2004
Replies: 3
Views: 1476

Re: Adding USB charging to a HP iPAQ from 2004

Oh nice one! In hindsight I wish I hadn't trashed the two Visors I had years ago. I miss them! They're pretty sweet devices, even though they're not the fanciest most useful of PDAs.
by zero cool
Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:14 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: My EDC kit and tech bags
Replies: 14
Views: 3388

Re: My EDC kit and tech bags

Hehe! The slight OCD has that effect it seems. I'm not a big fan of carrying around an unorganized mess. But each to their own! :D
by zero cool
Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:10 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Adding USB charging to a HP iPAQ from 2004
Replies: 3
Views: 1476

Adding USB charging to a HP iPAQ from 2004

So, since I'm daily driving this old thing, and I only have the cradle for it, and a knockoff USB cable starts at 10 bucks, I decided to look into adding a USB jack for charging. I dug around in the many boxes of junk and found A USB micro jack on a bit of PCB, probably from a powerbank some time ...