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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Oh, now you’re talkin!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Terry would be so proud. And racist and scared. But also proud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Terry would be proud of you right after telling me to make him a Kebab

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in tears, I've finally found the version of this toy I had as a kid.

Thank you so much for this shitpost, sincerely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

One person’s shit[post] is another one’s childhood 😘

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You joke but it would be an awesome project. Maybe replace the screen with a real LCD, shove an rpi inside etc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

"diy dr.k" on YouTube did something similar with a barbie kid's laptop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it’d be really cool if it could run real OS inside it, and can play sound from the builtin speaker it apparently has

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It does seem like it'd be pretty cool, though much rather them than me lol. I think shoving an rpi inside though would really betray the implicit spirit of the project. That would just be "can a raspberry pi run linux when I put in a plastic case shaped like a children's toy?" The answer would pretty obviously be yes. People are saying the processor in it means it probably couldn't run Linux which would make it a bit of a non-starter but there apparently other OSs that could be made to run on that kind of processor and that'd be cool to see.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it’s like the older vtech educational toys it uses some z80 processor, so you won’t be able to run Linux but you can a few different hobbyist microcomputer operating systems like zeal8bit and fuzix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Man, I had a vtech “computer” as a kid in the later 90’s. I don’t remember what happened to it or what it was even actually good for.

Pretty sure this is what I had.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395832416009?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0qo80bobtii&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=R-vbXi9SRQ6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...that's the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don’t know. You should make sure it doesn’t have a Realtek Wi-Fi card. Otherwise, it looks fine. I found the Linux Hardware report for it here: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7144bb41

I think the price to performance doesn’t look the best, though. Maybe go for a Thinkpad instead?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Realtek work great since 6.2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think it’s mistly okay. I had a bit of misery with my 8852BE on my new Thinkpad E16 (the card would just disconnect from the system until the next reboot occasionally), which was solved with some kernel parameters I found online.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

You may want to also post this to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Bet it can run doom.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You belong in a museum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just hang it on the wall

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Hanna Montana, and you're good to go.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Someone with NetBSD is already scouring eBay.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

$500 might be a stretch, It weren't for the horrible keyboard, and horrible screen, it might be worth putting a raspberry pi into as a sleeper project.

Yes I realize it's a joke.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet my left nut it runs NetBSD flawlessly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What am I going to do with your left nut?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

First, I'll use a pair of rusty sizors to extract them, then I slice it into thin strips and fry with a little olive oil and garlic

I recommend with a grain of salt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think we might both like it…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder what CPU it has. You should tear it down and see if you can get some custom code running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What I should do it toss a pi in there and tease everyone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that just a model, or is there actually a display in the middle that does something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

More importantly, can it run doom?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

this might unironically run linux depending on the specs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Unironically, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hey, if you can do it on a 4004.....

(Yes yes, you'd have to write an x86 emulator and it'd be slow as heck but I mean, you could.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be sure to wear your hacking goggles while flying through hyperspace, wouldn't wanna catch any bugs in your eyes at such fast speeds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, I’m not moving. I just always have wind in my hair. 😎😎😎😎

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

@ravhall half a kilobuck just to make it happen? guess if that floats your arch boat, go do it and report back on your success!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wwwwow. Yeah that is cooler. Is that just a repurposed oscilloscope?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yeah its very possible, Take a blow torch and arch linux iso (you need wizard to take it out of your pc you can find the wizard hiding in your tor browser he built a house inside of the tor browser.) then take a blowtorch and burn the iso into the pc front now it should be running arch btw.

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