Nokia N810: Discovering limitations
I’m discovering the limitations of using my Nokia N810 internet tablet in 2025.
Big one is, the web has moved. SSL ciphers have evolved, HTTPS pages won’t load. I’m aware there are proxies for old browsers, but I’m not keen on pursuing that way.
Neovim over SSH glitches. There must be some escape codes or stuff not in terminfo. I thought it was tmux, but it glitches the same outside of it. ROXTerm has only 16 colors. Mutt throws errors with my 256-colors configuration but fallbacks to black and white.
Nethack works, hah!
I can read ePubs using FBReader. But I prefer reading on my old Kindle Paperwhite.
I don’t think reading comics will work that well. The screen is smaller compared to my iPhone, I don’t think it will be a comfortable experience given that I don’t like to read comics on my iPhone as well.
I can always use it as what nowadays they call a «WriterDeck» — a dedicated, portable, writing device for focused writing. I can start writing my Morning Pages there and copy them over with rsync. I have Vim 7 here. It’s funny that Vim thinks an .md file is a Modula source code. Markdown existed back then, but wasn’t as widely popular as it is today.
There’s a port of Leafpad, a GTK+ text editor. Wow, did I really used that small font size? I’m getting old!