I installed FUSE, the ZX Spectrum emulator on my Nokia N810. I was surprised some keys didn’t work and glitched erratically. It was a big letdown, I thought it was a bug and yet another program turning again into a «close, but no.» But I persisted. I then figured it out: it’s mapping Q, A, O and P (and some other key) to a joystick emulation. Ok, now everything makes…

Figured out the Nokia N810’s LED patterns! The missing piece of the puzzle was a variable called LEDPatterns which was right in the /etc/mce/mce.ini file! If the pattern is not listed there, then MCE will ignore any activation messages.

I’ve figured out the D-Bus calls thanks to the Maemo Leste project. Maemo Leste is …

I was researching how to control the N810’s notification LED. Doing some searches didn’t yield any results, so I was looking around /sys/class and other places. I found how to control the brightness of the keyboard’s light, which is cool but not that useful, hah.

Doing more and more search I found my first hunch was true: you control it with D-Bus. I found the Git repository for some project and then it built a call with some LED «pattern» thing with a name: …

I’m too tired to write, and yet, I’ll write. At least a meta thing about how tired I am to write.

You can lock the N810 with a secret number code. I thought: what if someone else set it and locked me out? You can’t bypass the code, the only option is the nuclear one: reflash the device anew. I tried to set it and I was surprised to see it asked for the current code to change it. Uuh, I don’t remember setting a code. Or did I? All my tries failed. I was feeling uneasy with this, and started looking at how the process of reflashing was.

While having supper, I mentioned Thalía abo…

Xournal was one of many unofficial ports to Maemo made by volunteers. That’s, by the way, what Nokia intended by choosing Linux and Open Source for their Internet Tablets; they placed their bet on enthusiast developers porting a wide range of applications to their devices. A noble effort and a winning idea that, sadly, didn’t take off.

Xournal is a note-taking application designed for tablet PCs and touch-enabled computers. It’s …

maemo.org packages listing works, but the subdomain that hosts the .deb files doesn’t. Wayback Machine to the rescue! What a blessing Archive.org is.

You can use these URLs to browse the package listings:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250210062931/http://repository…

Well, look at that! I’m drawing again on my Journal Comic!

There will never be a perfect time to get (re)started, so today’s as good as any day. There will always be busy days, bad days, and terrible, terrible days.

And, of course, just today we got a heavy load of work for the upcoming weeks. Perfect timing, dude.

Disappointedly reporting that writing long content on the Nokia N810 using its hardware keyboard is slow, uncomfortable and not practical. Typing requires more effort than tapping on a glass surface. My thumbs get tired.

As a dedicated writing machine it doesn’t cut it, unless maybe pairing it with a Bluetooth keyboard. Of course, the form factor and portability changes radically; you might wonder, «why not use a smartphone instead?»

And you’d be right.

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. …

Resuming setting up SSH on my Nokia N810 (aka Nyon).

I couldn’t login from Nyon to Tomcat, but I made it work from Tomcat to Nyon! I had to add RSA as an acceptable algorithm (because SHA-1 went bye-bye) and login as root:

ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa root@192.…