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Luke Crook luke at balooga.com
Fri Aug 6 00:23:33 BST 2021
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A Gemini client running on old ebook hardware - like a Kindle - would begreat.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:59 PM raingloom <raingloom at riseup.net> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:56:32 +0000 (UTC)
Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at gmail.com> wrote:
This is a sort of continuation of a prior thread I had made about the
least powerful hardware that could use Gemini.
I honestly feel bad about this as I have neither real hardware of the
era, nor do I have coding experience. However in theory Gemini would
be great for retro enthusiasts as it would give them something
compsritovely resource light while also being actively worked on.
Projects like The Old Web exist, and frankly make me smile as it
gives old hardware a way to Web, or at least explore the web that
was, somewhat natively. However I feel trying to force Big Web on
such old machines is 'solving' the square peg round hole problem with
a sledgehammer.
Problem is while gopher roots would hint at the audiance here has a
higher than average number of retro enthusiasts there is no gurentee
at anyone caring to see what, say, Lagrange can be ported to.
I also have another thought for devices that can't natively do tls
involving both a client, and a pi zero, or Arduino, or even something
built into that wifi to serial port device (forget the name but that
is just so danged handy to have if you retro.) To handle the security
bits so that those older devices can join in on the fun.
Let the web demand more and more resources. Give old platforms as
well as new access to Gemini.
I just... Don't know if anyone here is actually interested in Doing
The Thing. I just think it'd be neat and would get coverage by people
like Micheal mjd, lgr, etc alongside.
I have some old Windows PDAs that could use a Gemini client and a 32
bit Windows 7 dev machine. I was trying to get the last version of Qt
that supported Windows CE running on that machine, but I didn't get far.
There were also no readily available pre-built clients for 32 bit
Windows 7 that I could find.
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