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    Linear or tactile?

    For a while at school each kid had a 3.5 inch floppy for keeping work on from one class to the next, and a lot of people didn't seem to be able to keep the floppy alive for very long. Not sure what they were doing to them. In keyboards, I like the ones that were included with computers in the...
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    Linear or tactile?

    I'm sure they are, it's just the visual of a floppy with a coffee cup on it ;)
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    Linear or tactile?

    I find them strangely upsetting
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    What have you bought recently?

    I just bought this too, and unfortunately it seems to be a really bad fit for my hands. I've used a lot of different controllers and really thought I was going to like that one :(
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    SD card format woes

    There were issues with booting from EXT4 which are resolved in more recent OS versions. Code::Blocks will work best on EXT4. If the Pandora doesn't have the EXT4 formatting tools in the base OS (as TrashyMG suggested it might not), you can use the gparted PND. But do test your card first as...
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    Veganism

    Like other animals, humans evolved to want to eat things that were good for them in those original environments. Then they figured out how to make food that tastes good regardless of nutrition. Also, what's good to eat in a harsh environment where you mostly aim to survive long enough to...
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    Veganism

    Can still quote out of context ;) Sounds like you were talking about ingredients which taste like sugar or fat but don't give you the energy when you try to digest them? And this wouldn't apply to fake meat with real fat in it? "Avoid processed food" would apply to fake meat though.
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    Veganism

    In unprocessed plant foods, starch and protein are mixed together, so how does that work?
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    Veganism

    I don't think it's going to work going vegan just like that. And if you take a diet that's high in junk food and just try to turn it vegan, you're going to get nutrient deficiencies - you'll need to eat a lot of different kinds of vegetables, nuts, etc. I'd suggest spending a couple of months...
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    OpenPandora (type 1002) doesn't turn on anymore - What to check? How to repair?

    If the bootloader is corrupted it doesn't turn any LEDs on, so you could try the recovery card. You shouldn't insert the battery with external power connected, it can break things.
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    Mounting the PND failed

    Mounting a PND could fail if it doesn't have write permissions for where it wants to put the appdata directory (and FAT32 doesn't have these sorts of permissions).
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    Need a Ready-to-use Image for left SD/MMC with Pandora OS Linux for the Pandora handheld ?

    #2 in this thread https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/4-ways-to-install-pandora-slackware-windows-linux-zaxxon.68815/
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    What are your favourite handhelds?

    I mainly play Nintendo handheld games. I like my Switch Lite and my DS Lite and my backlight-modded GBA. I prefer the shape of the original GBA rather than the GBA SP. For other things, of course the Pandora :) You can use NiMH batteries in the GBC and GBA (except the battery level indicator...
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    Global Chip Shortage Threatens Production of Laptops, Smartphones and More

    ATmega328P shortage. A very popular hobbyist chip with a lot of legacy code depending on it. "Adafruit ordered 9,000 in March 2021 which have not arrived." https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/16/chip-shortage-microchip-atmega328p-microcontroller-chipshortage-adafruit-adafruit-microchipmakes/
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    Need a Ready-to-use Image for left SD/MMC with Pandora OS Linux for the Pandora handheld ?

    Yeah, I was thinking that compiling a new desktop environment for SuperZaxxon probably means hours/days of troubleshooting. While Slackware on Pandora will probably behave basically the same as what you would expect from the normal version of Slackware.
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