/dev/urandom on Nostr: i remember the first laptop i owned was a huge-ass toshiba satellite one and it had ...

i remember the first laptop i owned was a huge-ass toshiba satellite one and it had two really cool features about it:



it had a phone line socket in it. sadly, inside was a softmodem that was only "supported by Linux" in the most useless way possible (there is a proprietary driver, you have to manually compile it into the kernel, you have to pay for full 56k functionality and when i tried doing it, it failed because i'm pretty sure the driver was written for a way older version of the kernel)


it had a PC card slot, which i didn't use for anything, but i still think it's pretty neat that it's a port where you can plug a whole another piece of hardware that will then function as if it's just part of your computer (which yeah, USB can also do that, but USB is more boring since it's just exchanging data and drivers do all the talking)