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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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366 points yaky | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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sollewitt ◴[12 Dec 25 04:38 UTC] No.46240916[source]▶
The N900 was my peak “mobile computing is awesome” device.

I went to see District 9 in the cinema in Helsinki. Uh oh, the alien parts are only subtitled in Finnish and Swedish and my Finnish is not up to that.

I installed a BitTorrent client, found the release on Pirate Bay, successfully torrented just the subtitle file, and used an editor to read the subtitles for scenes with a lot of alien.

The N9 had much better UI, but there was something of the cyberpunk “deck” idea in that thing, it was great.

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1. theshrike79 ◴[12 Dec 25 07:40 UTC] No.46241789[source]▶
The N950[0] was literal perfection. I had multiple friends who rand self-hosted servers on retired N900's :D

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N950