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The app appears unavailable in France in Google Play is that expected ? My phone is a pixel.

PC GEOS was much later circa 1990, the company spends years maintaining the first version targeting the C64 and Apple II. I also remember fondly the quality of prints produced by PC GEOS which included lots of home printer drivers. The system used an alternate vector font system not Truetype. Its SDK is probably still very interesting, but i suspect the complexity level was one of the reasons so few third party apps were developped for it.

The KV-cache memory usage also seems remarkably frugal, even at the full context length. That could make this model particularly useful in multi-agent coding workflows.

I wish KV-cache memory usage and related optimizations were discussed more clearly in new model announcements and demos.

Do you think advanced users should consider AVIF/AVIF2 along JPEGXL for long term pictures archival ?

Which kind of encode settings do you suggest for conversion from high resolution RAWs or JPEGs ?

Does anyone know how hard it would be to do the same with other tablets like Allwinner A733 ones ? Allwinner is supposed to also have some Linux support.

It appears that only the 4o text interface has been removed. Advanced Voice Mode is still branded as 4o, although it has been gradually evolving over the past few months. I suspect that voice mode is what most users are actually attached to.

These are objects from a time when people were willing to watch machines work, not just get instant output.

Today, even if small DIY plotters were cheap to build, they’d mostly live in the “art / hobby” space: most users won’t wait several minutes for a page when a laser printer does it in seconds.

That said, it would be great if a simple, well-documented DIY standard (protocol + format) emerged that hobby plotters could implement and that common tools (Inkscape, CAD, etc.) could support out of the box.

The brand suffered from energy price hikes, felt particularly sharply after 2022, and its marketing could clearly be improved. Only now, after more than two or three decades, are new designs finally appearing on the roadmap.

These glasses were once ubiquitous in public middle-school cafeterias, so the emotional attachment runs deep across generations.

30 years ago, without an SSD, my Pentium box booted to the desktop in 60 seconds — that’s roughly 5 billion CPU cycles at 75 MHz. Today, with blazing-fast SSDs and CPUs running at 4+ GHz, a typical PC boots in around 10 seconds — that’s 50+ billion cycles per core.

One of my teachers used to say: "In computing, 3 seconds is an eternity." These days, that’s enough time for 20 billion AVX-512 instructions.

It’s hard to accept that anything not truly compute-intensive needs more than that. Realistically, we should be able to hit 300 ms latency across the entire UX — and yet we don’t.

The irony is that GCC improved so much since then that now the 48h may be reduced to 30h on the exact same hardware.

Is that kind of setup still usable for some kind of desktop computing or only for command line stuff ?

128MB RAM sounds huge for the early 90s - win 3.1 and word / excel of the time could fly with much less. Is the lack of hardware floating point support an issue to run modern apps ?

The speed difference with current systems is mind boggling. The original A1200 CPU is 2,000 to 5,000 times slower than a random N100 setup. one second wait nowadays means one hour delay on the A1200. This shows how much software bloat accumulated.

I also lack an internal monologue and have strong aphantasia, so the idea that I might not be conscious made me a bit uneasy—it just felt wrong, somehow. For now, the best I can say is that my worldview, which includes self-consciousness, is abstract. I can put it into words, but most of the time, it doesn’t feel necessary.

One always writes for the potential readers. Even if the human readers are becoming rare, the opportunity to be read forever by all these AIs can only boost our ego :-)