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I wrote about this a few months back, and likened Apple's approach to a nursing home. Some people need the extra care a nursing home provides, so it's great they are an option, but most adults don't choose to live in one. puri.sm/posts/the-future-of-co

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If an iPhone is your home, installing an app is inviting someone in. Apple demands they approve all your visitors, doesn't trust you to do it yourself. They say it's to stop criminals but it's really to stop competitors, charge tolls from the rest. theverge.com/2021/11/3/2276172

When I read Snow Crash for the first time, the most dystopian thing to me weren't the burbclaves, but that all the useful information on the future Internet was behind a paywall. It's odd that this is the part of the metaverse people want to build.

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The things you rent, end up owning you.

So Big Tech companies can't manage to make a simple protocol like messaging interoperable (FB owns 3, Google 6), but we are supposed to believe something complicated like the Metaverse will be different?

...and here's the same thing using . Needs more work and polishing but just to give an idea. It works pretty well with thumb only too but that's hard to record.

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Pick a random consumer device lying around your house and imagine someone coming across it after 70 years of neglect. Part of the device no longer works. Would they be able to fix it? puri.sm/posts/beyond-right-to-

I fixed the timing but this is as clean as I dare to make it right now. It got wet in storage some time in the past and rust worked its way under the black paint and through part of a screw. The rest of the paint is very flaky. I removed as much surface rust as much as I dared.

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Round 2. This time with a Gem portable adding machine from 1941 (I have the original box, receipt, and warranty card) that's rusty *and* has two digits out of time with the rest of the register.

Done! One reason I cleaned it is I smelled that "old appliance" smell and wanted to ensure the motor wasn't strained. I ran it with the cover off and saw flashes in the back. The mechanism disconnects the motor when it's not needed, and that makes it arc. I was smelling ozone!

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Time to clean and oil (and this time not have to repair) a National Cash Register 11-EN electro-mechanical adding machine from the early 1950s.

Facebook's rebrand to Meta finally answers the long-standing question of whether Zuckerberg uses VI or Emacs.

I just sent and received calls between my SIP account and landline phone using my and the native Calls application, and it was pretty exciting.

The heavy rain revealed a leaky exhaust pipe for my tankless hot water heater right before my morning shower. A few rainy trips on the roof, a trip to the hardware store, and some soaked-through clothes later, and I finally got my hot shower.

While it's hard to beat the aesthetic appeal of the Burroughs Class 1 and 3, they are big, heavy, and slow. If you don't need a paper record you'd be better served by its 1919 competitors the Comptometer Model F or Monroe Model G I featured here earlier.

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Division is possible by repeated subtraction. Like with the Comptometer you have to watch the register before it underflows. To print a subtotal pull the lever once, hold the subtotal key and pull it again--a 2 handed operation. Total works the same but also clears the register.

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You multiply by repeated addition in the ones column, then shift left and repeat for each digit in the multiplicand. Normally the keys reset when you pull the lever, but by pressing the repeat key they stay down until you press the Total key. Here is 12 x 12.

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