Lilbits: Run Palm Pilot apps in your browser with the Internet Archive's emulator - Liliputing

The Internet Archive manages to support net past live by offering backups of millions of web pages and different content, including galore pages that are nary longer disposable successful their archetypal forms.

But the Internet Archive is besides an online room that offers entree to plentifulness of different content, including music, videos, and (somewhat controversially) eBooks. You tin besides find aged machine games… and present you tin relive your earlier nonrecreational vocation by moving Palm Pilot apps (and games) successful a browser.

Here’s a roundup of caller tech quality from astir the web.

Software Library: Palm and Palmpilot [Internet Archive]

The Internet Archive is not lone compiling a room of hundreds of aged Palm Pilot applications… but the institution has besides implemented an emulator that lets you tally these apps and games successful a web browser. 

Discovered via Jason Scott’s Mastodon post. 

Biktorj’s Pinephone Modem firmware mentation 0.7.1 [GitHub]

The latest merchandise of this unfastened root firmware for the PinePhone modem adds beta enactment for signaling each incoming and outgoing telephone calls. You tin opt to grounds each calls, delete calls you don’t explicitly archer it to keep, oregon grounds a telephone you’re presently connected oregon astir to make. Note that signaling telephone calls without support whitethorn beryllium amerciable successful immoderate regions, truthful it’s a bully thought to fto radical cognize you’re signaling and inquire permission.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Release [UBPorts]

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Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 brings archetypal enactment for double-tap-to-wake connected immoderate devices, enactment for media buttons connected headsets, fingerprint and messaging improvements, and bug fixes. Now disposable for much than 3 twelve devices, it’s inactive based connected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. But enactment continues to determination to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Touch merchandise campaigner is present disposable for the Fairphone 4 [[email protected]]

This mentation of the Linux-based operating strategy relies connected Halium 11, which allows Ubuntu to pass with the telephone utilizing immoderate Android drivers. The Fairphone 4 features a 6.3 inch FHD+ display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G processor, up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and dual 48MP rear cameras positive a 25MP front-facing camera. It ships with Android 11, but Fairphone is beauteous bully astir encouraging enactment for alternate operating systems. The institution besides sells spare parts and tries to usage arsenic galore ethically-sourced materials successful its phones arsenic possible.

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