No all good, they look amazing. I think my Grandparents may have had an Olivetti… It looks so familiar.

Pretty much the requirement for my wife. She really struggled with inconsistency of Windows and how slow it responded. Move to Linux, and she runs it fine with no more complaints, she just wants it identical after a version upgrade or if there is a reinstall ever needed. So for her I went with NixOS and have her config files stored for later.

Same here, I saw one picture of the IBM that looked like it could have bumps, but the pixelation also meant it could just be reflections due to the convex shape. Also if you have old typewriters, its a faux pas not to share pictures LOL

Use an email relay, and don’t enter many personal details. While this stuff is invisible to general users, marketers can purchase a paid linked in that allows gleaning that data and making call lists, so it will have your name, email, phone number, job description etc. This is fine if you hope somebody calls you for a job, but it also gets in the wrong hands and you get spam on your phone and email

Totally unsure if this is accurate, but chatgpt is 100% confident LOL. Brand/Model Approximate Introduction Year Homing Nubs on F and J Keys IBM Selectric 1961 Yes Royal Quiet Deluxe 1939 Yes Hermes 3000 1958 Yes Olivetti Lettera 22 1950 Yes Underwood Standard 1929 Yes

Couldn’t find images showing these. Looks like on computers their is info about it starting in 83

A shaken PP

Yeah being able to read an article and have it trigger a thought process where you grok the concepts an paraphrase, is such a huge skill. Reading a summary is not the same even if your words would be written out the same in the end.

Also as a deep dive user of technical program, when I chatgpt some questions about this aoftware the output is often totally wrong, and even if I feed it some correct info it says oh right and changes it into more garbage. At a surface level though it looks very correct to a person who’s never used the software before.

My bad, the groups was transy not tranny

The group had that name

It wascallyed something Tranny. Edit: my bad it was Transy not tranny

Mine is not that. There was lots of porn, hentail, and tranny nudes showing in new at first, but I blocked those communities, its been good since.

Edit, sorry my bad the group w as Transy not Tranny

Welcome to Auschwitz, the sequel.

Chatgpt says 1950s. But who knows if that is accurate

I assume once key caps were molded plastic

Hows your backpain? You must be going way back on equipment. Everything I have had from 85 on has had a dimple or raised dash.

Yes for sure, a farmer or artisan dealing in smaller volume knows their costs, and will deal for bulk buy etc. Modern corporate sellers know their fixed cost of procurement, warehousing, profit required, and logistics costs, so the price is the price…unless you can deal at the upper corp level for huge buys

Yeah not sure how it works on Mint, on OpenSUSE after reboot it asks if you want to enroll the new keys into it. If you miss the timer you will boot and driver will bork

Some people don’t quite get pricing and that they seem to want to hang onto their junk (they are selling) rather than let it go for a reasonable price.

One guy had a B/G router on Craigslist for the price of a new AC/X router. I sent a helpful message “hey these sell for $5 because they are obsolete, at your price nobody will buy that except a grandma that knows nothing about WiFi.”

He replied with a tirade of nasty insults, that I ignored. Few days later he emails against asking if I want it for $10.

I replied that I don’t want it , it is obsolete, I was trying to help so you don’t sit on it without a sale. And he replied with more swearing and insults.

3 months later I see it still for sale, and still too high. So I could not resist a little “I told you so” message.

Well this explain my vietnamese neighbour’s behaviour, she’s always complaining about store prices and trying to get stuff discounted. Her day is made if something was on sale, even if it wasn’t something she needed. It feels like a win for her

Our typing class in high school was this teacher spouting nonsense letter combos and us following those dqyvafter day until we had covered home row , upper and lower, then moving onto coping sentences. Reptitiion works. Find your home row dimples on the key board then today is fjf fjf fjf fjf fjf fjf, tomorrow is another