Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

A Wilcox & Gibbs chainstitch machine in particular if you were wondering...

Well now I want a Victorian hand-powered #sewing machine. Thanks Repair Shop! #antique

@Gargron Congratulations Eugen. I know you have put so much time and effort into this and I'm so happy to see this current wave.

@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin I agree, network effect is the only thing holding it back and while I could be wrong, this time feels different from past exoduses. It could get past the tipping point.

@hehemrin Interesting! I will need to look into doing that too.

@Konqi Yes the very same! A number of Japanese companies that are now household names (like Sharp) seem to have been early in the electronic calculator market.

@hehemrin I saw a few comments in my timeline from folks advising new Mastodon users about features, and one included setting up a column that served as a custom timeline search for sets of hashtags reflecting your interests and realized more people likely use hashtags to find posts than I thought, simply because I didn't personal use hashtags this way.

@Wildbill Welcome back!

@katherined According to this expert weaver/waulker/folk singer on the podcast, Outlander wasn't too accurate :)

Yesterday I learned via a fiber arts podcast that the surname Walker was derived from the profession of Scottish waulkers who took part in waulking: the process of fulling (felting) woolen handwoven fabric by foot to make them denser/warmer. #weaving

I realized I hardly ever add topical hashtags to posts which probably makes it tougher for folks around the fediverse to see things I write that they might be interested in. I'll try to do better with future posts about #weaving , #calculators , #addingmachines and #Linux #FOSS and #infosec topics.

@goatwildernesscollective It should be possible but someone would have to write GPG integration to unlock that keyring. Once that is there the smart card should "just work".

Before clicky mechanical keyboards in the office were controversial, Toshiba was stirring things up about clicky mechanical calculators to sell their electronic alternative.

@nielsa Welcome!

I plan to merge these mobile changes back to the original repo (https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages/smartcard-key-luks) once it gets a bit more testing so the same script can work on desktop and mobile.

Someone in the mobile Linux community modified my Librem Key USB smart card LUKS unlock script to also work for mobile. I tweaked it so now it can also use the built-in Librem 5 smart card reader. Now I have 2FA disk unlock on my Librem 5!

So I made some progress with refurbishing the Comptometer this weekend. I freed up many stuck registers, but that revealed an issue with the carry mechanism on a few digits I will have to investigate further.

@garethgreenaway Welcome!