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RedMagic 9 Pro: Kind of a Review
I ordered this thing a bit more than two weeks ago. When it arrived, brand new, it had a tiny little delamination defect on the display. Really tiny, at the lower left corner, nearly invisible during normal use. But of course, I contacted the support. In the meantime I did extensive tests. And here are…
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How to insert extended ASCII graphing characters in vi/vim
Everytime people ask how they can create ASCII graphics in vi or vim, they get told by the all-knowing expert gurus that they are talking about something which isn’t ASCII. Yes, we know this! Nevertheless, whether we name the subject correct or not, there are these characters we’d wish to use but do not know…
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xterm for absolute beginners
Every time I get confronted with xterm I’m looking for the same parameters to have it start in a usable manner. If some application annoys you with presenting you with a much too small xterm window with a too small font, try this commandline first which is nice for Full-HD (1920×1080): xterm -fs 12 -fa…
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reMarkable (2): How To Generate Grid Templates
I’ve found this glorious website: https://xosh.org/remarkable-grid-template/ It even generates the json entry for templates.json. But it makes one little mistake which you have to correct, otherwise things will fail: The line with the “iconCode” must read So, don’t forget the “…”! The settings in this example generate a quadratic grid of a tiny bit less…
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Gforth: How To Get The Most Recent Version
On the homepage of the Gforth project, 0.7.3 is pointed out as being the latest release. That’s not true at all. I consider it a mistake to call 0.7.3 the latest release since at the time of this writing I work with Gforth 0.7.9_20231123. When you read further on the Gforth homepage, https://gforth.org/, you’ll find…
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A Program Showing the Collatz Sequence On A SwissMicros DM32 (HP 32S II) Calculator
LBL CENTERENTERSTO ARCL A2÷FP {see hint below}2xX=0?GTO DGTO ELBL DRCL A2÷PSESTO A1X<>YX≤Y?GTO FGTO CLBL ERCL A3x1+PSESTO AGTO CLBL FRCL A Enter a start number and XEQ C. Then it shows the numbers of the sequence, in this case 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1. The original program was posted…