A photo of my typewriter, a Remington Travel-Riter Deluxe with a sheet of A4 paper in it, on which I have manually typed the output of fastfetch and ping. The typewriter is apparently running Arch Linux with linux-hardened. My shell is sh. It has no CPU, no GPU, and zero bytes of RAM. The ping command was going to 9.9.9.9. All packets were returned with decent speed.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

That was a complete rabbit hole. Thanks.

The only thing possibly more epic would be converting a Linotype to a Linux terminal. It uses hot lead to create type for newspapers, etc.

I was trained to use one as there were so many in use they still have some niche applications for specialty printing.

Anyhow, I call them Satan’s Typewriters and still have small scars from hot lead all over my forearms. And I love technology.

A good film:

Linotype: The Film

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