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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

I was watching the thing and got to the part where he said that he was using XON/XOFF flow control and thought that the guy's Arduino RS-232 ASCII-to-Baudot-encoding thing could be made more efficient if he'd make the encoder use the RS-232 RTS/CTS lines instead of XON/XOFF encoding. Then I realized that he's converting to 45.5 baud, and that at that speed, even his 9600 baud line


normally the chokepoint for people with modern hardware, you know, 1980s and on or so


is blisteringly fast and inefficiency at that point is irrelevant.

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