posted on march 14th, 2025
with tags
hardware and
openbsd
last updated on march 23rd, 2026
The
KING JIM Pomera DM250
"digital typewriter" is a small Linux-powered ARM computer that boots up into a
custom word processor application.
I've been tinkering with it to try to get OpenBSD booted on it.
I'd normally wait until the end and write up a proper article explaining
everything, but this process is taking a lot longer than I expected so I figured
I'd document it all as I go.
posted on february 26th, 2025
with tags
hardware,
mac, and
vintagecomputing
last updated on february 17th, 2026
A year ago I tried using an M1 iMac for work duty but its 21" screen took up too
much room on my desk.
After seeing
Sean's video on Action Retro
about putting an M4 Mac Mini inside an
iMac G4,
I thought I'd give it a try.
Last year I upgraded my Kindle Paperwhite to a Kindle Scribe to be able to write
notes and draw diagrams while programming to help visualize things.
One thing that bothered me about the Scribe was that its sleep screen images
were pretty boring and because I'm now often reading PDFs or writing in a
notebook, I couldn't benefit from the Kindle OS's new functionality that uses
the cover of the book being read as the sleep screen image (which previously
required a jailbreak and custom software).
Since the process for installing custom sleep screen images is rather cumbersome
and the information is scattered across old forum posts, I thought I'd document
how I did it to possibly make it easier for someone else.
I wanted to add an internal USB port to my
ThinkPad X1 Nano
which should have been a fairly easy thing to do, but it wasn't.
Of course, if I were still using my
Framework Laptop
it would be as easy as plugging in a
custom module
but I've been using my X1 Nano as my primary laptop for quite some time now.