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New comment by _trampeltier in "My Favourite Laptop"

_trampeltier — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:21:32 +0000

Even my very light Fujitsu U939 has two real mouse buttons. On the other side, I allways have a small mouse or a trackball with me. The cursor buttons are also in full size and he has also 2 seperate PgUp and PgDown buttons. I have no idea how people can work on a notebook without these buttons.

New comment by _trampeltier in "What we know so far about Spain train crash"

_trampeltier — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:17:49 +0000

Yes, 40km/h is for driving on sight in most Europa. I think in France it's even 30km/h.

New comment by _trampeltier in "What we know so far about Spain train crash"

_trampeltier — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:59:51 +0000

Yes, but just with max. 40km/h

New comment by _trampeltier in "Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS"

_trampeltier — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:54:47 +0000

So you can allways trust the carriers. So then it's maybe a feature.

New comment by _trampeltier in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

_trampeltier — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:16:15 +0000

Fujitsu U939 13" is lighter than 1kg, has a charger port, 2 USB-C, 2 USB-3, RJ45 (folded), HDMI, Smartcart, SD card, SIM Card, Pen, Mouspad with real buttons, keyboard with normal cursor buttons and separate PgUp and PgDown buttons.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

_trampeltier — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:20:54 +0000

+1 from me for relais technique. It is easy to replace, even in 1000 years. Today PLCs are great and fun. We can do a lot of cool things with them. Just with the short and shorter life cycles, sometimes even less than 10 years. If something breaks you have to replace so much stuff for a small broken piece. Thats such a bummer in todays industrie automation.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

_trampeltier — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:58:00 +0000

Siemens Field PG. It is a rugged Notebook for PLC programmers. At least in the last version until last year, the "Field PG M6" was possible to buy the Notebook with a special serial port for old S5 PLCs ant the Step5 software came in a special DosBox version with it.

The Field PG has also another special port called "MPI/Profibus" for S7 PLCs, 2 Ethernet ports and a DVD drive.

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109766662/d...

New comment by _trampeltier in "I don't want the details"

_trampeltier — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:46:55 +0000

I think you did not read that part.

> The SVP wasn't interested in understanding how the issue happened or who was involved. They didn't want to be convinced that everyone involved behaved reasonably. That's a baseline expectation.

Their question became:

“Given that reasonable people produced this outcome, what needs to change?”

Of course you have to know the problem, but he trust and excpect a sulution from them. So this does just work this way, if you can trust the people. If not, then the top person has to check the solution for himself.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

_trampeltier — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:14:09 +0000

As an european guy. Interesting to see things happen from far away. Knowing that crazy country has so much power, makes the near future of the whole world even more scary.

New comment by _trampeltier in "What Sun got wrong"

_trampeltier — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0000

"Free", until mid 90s I guess most people bought Linux distros on CDs, later DVD (no downloads). For me the big, big plus on Linux (vs. Dos / Windows), had been all the free compilers.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug"

_trampeltier — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:41:52 +0000

Some people have such and other toys just at work and can use it in spare time.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

_trampeltier — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:46:39 +0000

I just have Fujitsu Lifebooks at Home since 2007. I think they are good, came with a bloat free Windows. I bought even one for my Mom over 10 years ago. I just changed once the HDD with a SSD. Now all my Lifebook run with Linux just flawless.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

_trampeltier — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:00:20 +0000

Just never ever ask how they train the models for CSAM.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models"

_trampeltier — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:28:52 +0000

How can it be legal to not have any kind of speed display in front of the driver?

New comment by _trampeltier in "Kids These Days"

_trampeltier — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:39:18 +0000

Kids in europe walk from early to school and can drive by bisycle pretty far alone, without the police almost shoot parents for leaving children 1 hour alone outside.

New comment by _trampeltier in "Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)"

_trampeltier — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:42:45 +0000

The faces, when I open PlotJuggler in front if other peopleat work and every time a meme pops up :-)

https://github.com/plotjuggler/plotjuggler

New comment by _trampeltier in "Beware the Permanent Periphery"

_trampeltier — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:09:04 +0000

Not now, 2001 changed everything (9/11).

New comment by _trampeltier in "Beware the Permanent Periphery"

_trampeltier — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:46:12 +0000

Thats why people wrote books like ..

The End of History and the Last Man is a book of political philosophy written in 1992 by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

New comment by _trampeltier in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

_trampeltier — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:22:48 +0000

The record I saw is more like 1892 partner

New comment by _trampeltier in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

_trampeltier — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:51:08 +0000

So simple, so cool, so much fun :-)