Might be handled and freshly archived on https://archive.org/ if I understand this Message from Jason Scott correctly.

But this should not stop anyone from mirroring the Hobbes OS/2 Archive, too.

Direct link to the actual PDF file: History of the PDF.pdf

Thank you very much =)

It looks nice and the wallpaper is great. Would you mind sharing a source for it?

No need to trust in science for the smarter 43% when god invented power plants, climate-machine, cars, guns and the internet. \s

Genaus so ein “Puzzle” hatte ich damals vor mir liegen, aber dank der Photos und ein bisschen Ausprobieren fanden alle Teile (auch gehüpfte Federn) wieder ihren korrekten Platz.

Bei mir hat die Bohrer-Methode immer gut mit meinen normalen Metallbohrern funktioniert. Es gibt anscheinend aber auch spezielle "Schraubenausdreh"bohrer, die u.a. sich beim Auf-/Linksdrehen nicht aus der Schraube drehen.

Mein Vater würde übrigens einfach eine Schraube auf die Schaube schweißen (wenn die Schraube geeignet ist) und dann mit Zange oder Schraubendreher herausdrehen. Damit habe ich aber nur Erfahrung als Zuschauer 😆

Hope I have interpreted the photo correctly and this is just a metal screw, that has become to round to be screwed out with a hex wrench.

In such case, I use a drilling machine to carefully drill a small metal-suited drill a few millimeters into the screw. Then I remove the drilling machine and hold the drill (still in the screw) with combination pliers (or similar pliers) and unscrew the metal screw (again carefully).

I hope my translation of the tool names are close enough to understand what I mean :)

In German it would be: Einen Metallbohrer mit Bohrmaschine einige mm in die Schraube bohren, dann mit Kombizange den Bohrer festhalten und zusammen mir Schraube herausdrehen.

EDIT: also please be careful when opening up the keyboard and document your steps with photos. When I repaired a 80s Korg some years ago, there where many parts that could spring out of place, e.g. when lifting the keys.

This is really nice, thanks for sharing 👍

Many thanks OP for starting this thread and also big thank you to all suggesting Mull and Mulch. I was not aware of those apps and will try out both of them.

Here are some links to start from:

• DivestOS website with information about their apps: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps
• Mull directly from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
• Mulch only from DivestOS F-Droid Repo: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.mulch/ - must enable repo first!

I really liked the Bromite browser on my mobiles, but unfortunately it did not get (security) updates for a longer time. From the many discussions in the Issue tracker asking about status of the project, I could not get a clear clue about the situation, but fact is that the last Bromite release is from Dec 2022.

From here Bromite is Dead, Use Cromite Instead I learned about and tried to switch to Cromite, but on my 32-bit Android devices it is still very unstable.

Definitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow “Microsoft Free Workstation” stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.

Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.

The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.

You can start with The Uber files, which “is a global investigation into a trove of 124,000 confidential documents from the tech company that were leaked to the Guardian.”

Summary

Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals

Some examples:

• The cache of more than 124,000 internal Uber files lays bare the ethically questionable practices through which the company barged its way into new markets, often where existing laws or regulations made its operations illegal, before lobbying aggressively for those same laws or regulations to be altered to accommodate it. Read here
• Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices in at least six countries. Read here
• Two of Barack Obama’s most senior presidential campaign advisers, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, discussed helping Uber get to access leaders, officials and diplomats. Read here
• At least six UK government ministers, including the then chancellor, George Osborne, and the future health secretary Matt Hancock, did not declare secret meetings at which they were lobbied by Uber. Read here
• The inside story of how Uber used its connections to the Conservative party to lobby Boris Johnson in a rearguard effort to stop Transport for London introducing new regulations. Read here
• One of Uber’s top executives quit amid questions for the company about whether its European operations were structured in a way that avoided tax. Read here
• Uber secretly hired a political operative linked to Russian oligarchs allegedly aligned with Vladimir Putin in an attempt to secure its place in the Russian market, despite internal bribery concerns. Read here

[…]

As Bonus some older articles about their overall ethics and practices:

• Harvard Business Review: Uber Can’t Be Fixed - It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
• NY Times: How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide paywalled | archived article
• The Verge This is Uber’s playbook for sabotaging Lyft
• BuzzFeed: Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
• Business Insider: Uber has lost its licence to operate in London … as “Uber was not “fit and proper” to hold a licence”
• Business Insider: France was right to punish Uber, according to a top European legal adviser | archived article

Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑‍🏫

Or … 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓

(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)

I know what you mean, but who are this “double click” and “exe” guys?

• Press RUN/STOP and SHIFT.

• PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

• Press PLAY on tape.

• OK
  SEARCHING
  FOUND Ultimate Game II

• Take walk with the dog.
• Play game.

I wish you a quick and good recovery.