• Re: Converting Palm Pilot

    From Dr. What@21:1/246 to Foriest Jan Smith on Sun Nov 23 09:04:50 2025
    jPilot? That one is what I've decided on. It's the Linux equivalent of Palm Desktop, if I recall. Windows 11 is a nightmare and a friend is

    Yup. jPilot is the one I was thinking of. I used to use that WAAYY back in the day with my Palms, then Handsprings, then back to Palm. I stayed on the non-cellular PDA stuff for a long time.

    Palm Desktop, if I recall. Windows 11 is a nightmare and a friend is having trouble even getting his IIIXE to run in Win 11... He got it

    It seems that Win11 is very problematic. Microsoft admitted the many of the core functions are buggy. I can't help but think that someone there must have rewritten those core functions in Rust.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Dr. What on Sun Nov 23 08:57:06 2025
    Hey Dr!

    On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:04:50 -0500, you wrote:

    It seems that Win11 is very problematic. Microsoft admitted the many of
    the core functions are buggy. I can't help but think that someone there must have rewritten those core functions in Rust.

    Then I'll consider myself one of the lucky ones, and continue to knock on wood or count my lucky stars, or something. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 11 since I upgraded to it, which was whenever I was first offered it probably 3-4 years ago and decided to enable whatever it was in BIOS that it required to install.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Dr. What on Sun Nov 23 12:02:09 2025
    Re: Re: Converting Palm Pilot
    By: Dr. What to Foriest Jan Smith on Sun Nov 23 2025 09:04 am

    It seems that Win11 is very problematic. Microsoft admitted the many of the core functions are buggy. I can't help but think that someone there must have rewritten those core functions in Rust.

    I upgraded to Windows 11 when it was released, and I haven't had a problem with it. Well, aside from a couple things that are just minor annoyances. Sometimes the desktop background setting changes back to a single picture when I normally have it set to a slide show, which is just a minor annoyance. Also, I have it set to turn off my monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity, and there are times when it doesn't do that. But as far as stability and running software, I haven't had a problem with it. That includes playing PC games as well as things like photo & video editing.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Accession on Sun Nov 23 12:02:50 2025
    Re: Converting Palm Pilot
    By: Accession to Dr. What on Sun Nov 23 2025 08:57 am

    Then I'll consider myself one of the lucky ones, and continue to knock on wood or count my lucky stars, or something. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 11 since I upgraded to it, which was whenever I was first offered it probably 3-4 years ago and decided to enable whatever it was in BIOS that it required to install.

    I haven't really had a problem with Windows 11 either. And the BIOS thing may have been to enable TPM, I'd guess?

    Nightfox
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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Nightfox on Sun Nov 23 15:06:26 2025
    Hey Nightfox!

    On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:02:50 -0800, you wrote:

    I haven't really had a problem with Windows 11 either. And the BIOS
    thing may have been to enable TPM, I'd guess?

    Yeah, that was it.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Foriest Jan Smith@21:2/156 to Dr. What on Fri Dec 5 00:22:04 2025
    Re: Re: Converting Palm Pilot
    By: Dr. What to Foriest Jan Smith on Sun Nov 23 2025 09:04 am

    It seems that Win11 is very problematic. Microsoft admitted the many of the core functions are buggy. I can't help but think that someone there must have rewritten those core functions in Rust.

    Yup... can barely emulate PCs in Win 11.... DOSBox works fine, but 86box is the limit, and even then it's working at its hardest for basic things, lol.
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