I still use a Palm Pilot in 2025, and you should, too

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You didn’t get a palm pilot to play games or scroll social media, you got one because you had a job to do.

  I literally had a palm pilot so I could browse the web when not at home. lol

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I collect vintage laptops, and my wife makes bespoke kitten mittens. Our buffet is $6.2 million.

  I also love using a Palm Pilot because it helps me commit notes to memory rather than just collecting them for later. You’ll be surprised how well you retain information when you enter it into a Palm, using the stylus to peck in letters deliberately. There’s also nothing quite like the satisfaction of hot-syncing your appointments and ideas while your Palm sits in its cradle.

  This cat is off his rocker, and needs to start taking his adderall.

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  • xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I collect vintage laptops, and my wife makes bespoke kitten mittens. Our budget is $6.2 million.

    What

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• MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s dumb as shit.

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• heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You didn’t get a palm pilot to play games

  Actually we did. There was a lot of good games. Also I don’t believe the author ever had one if he forgets this important detail.

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• Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I still rememberb the Palm Pilot input alphabet - every letter is represented by a single stroke and it was fast-enough and very accurate.

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  • goober@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Graffiti was interesting but after s while of using it becomes second nature.

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Someone should tell them about airplane mode.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But in airplane mode you could miss something.

    On a PDA you can’t as there isn’t something you could miss in the first place.

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• peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No one cares about hipsters.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well you cared enough to look and comment.

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• fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I loved my Palm devices.

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• XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was just thinking the other day that I really wish I still had a Psion. Tolerable screen and keyboard. Slim and funny form factor. Runs for days on a few AAA, and rechargeable AAA at that. I used to play chess and read ebooks on one. Never liked EPOC(?), but it was really efficient.

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