The older I get, the more I get the urge to return to monke, and just use tmux. Maybe on friday I go all out and boot up a GUI with some type of nifty nature wallpapers showing through my terminals.
FVWM is completely legit as well, albeit a little heavy when compared to TWM or my favorite Rio, with Acme of course. Heavy is relative in this sense, I've run FVWM on reprogrammed childrens toys with the processing power of a warm potato.
I went on a wm hunt in the early/mid 90's as well on my (company provided) SPARCStation. I went through all I could find and compile, but I landed on either fvwm or twm; the memory escapes me. I remember an interesting one ("piewm"?) that had its menus originate radially like pie-slices instead of a dropdown to the right; the theory being that you would have to move your mouse less to get to any given option.
I honestly don't understand the OP's hatred of fvwm, but people like different things.
If you don't mind me asking, what models are these pagers and what service is it through? I looked for a few plans and only found a single company that seemed to remain active. They offered prepaid plans for up to two years.
Thanks for the response. I'm not getting my hopes up but I am optimistic that surely someone has tried to enter this niche form factor solely given to how well it sells for the pi folks.
Thank you, I found your contact info and will reach out soon.
I came up with some ideas to put together something resembling option 2. My main focus is not having the ability to accept a phone call or voicemail, or rich media; privacy is a plus, but to be honest that was not my motivation. The desire for modern customary encryption mentioned in the post above was because iirc the old pager networks were more easily snooped than modern SMS. As long as the experience is compatible with an on par with SMS, I'm happy.
If I had a magic wand: ideally, this would operate just like a dumb phone, but without the ability to make calls, take pictures, browse the net, anything of that sort. I just want to activate the display, see a list of SMS messages or contacts, and respond to them. Wifi interfaces and all that would diminish the experience for me.
I'm thinking if I wanted to put this together for fun, it'd be most likely to happen in a pocket size (hopefully without JNCO jeans) by using a small raspberry pi, small e-ink module, some type of mobile radio like an LTE shield w/ sim if that exists, and maybe for the first iteration a chopped up tiny keyboard. Slap it all together between a few layers of acrylic and it could work.
Alas, currently blocked and limited to pen and paper by the lack of raspberry pi stock available.
One issue to note is carrier. ATT is now blocking devices that are not on their "approved" list. You may need to go with an alt carrier like Hologram or TMobile: https://www.hologram.io/products/iot-sim-card
Thank you. The stage I'm at right now is something in this realm. I'm seeing people who are able to send/recv SMS via raspberry pi zero + cell radio, so I'm currently looking at my options.
What texting-only phones are you able to find? I'm having a hard time forming a potent search query for those. I keep getting support threads for people who have phones that can text but have a broken calling feature.
2-way pagers worked for SMS, that's essentially what I'm looking for, but on modern hardware, meaning I'd rather it be rechargeable through a port than have a AA battery slot, maybe a microsd slot for my contacts and messages.
The existing 2-way pagers work over conventional networks as well as radio networks that relay SMS and email through a gateway, which is why I specified that I was not concerned which method, I just prefer that it does SMS, perhaps natively.
The recipient, as with 2-ways, can use any method or hardware of SMS to send/reply.
As many messaging concepts as Google owns and has owned over time, I'd imagine this is not the only messaging exec on the payroll. Could anybody from G comment one way or the other?
There is a google sheets spreadsheet internally, maintained by volunteers, listing ALL the current and past messaging clients google has. Even scrolling across it taxes a top-of-the-line computer
Hey, I agree with you there, but my point is that any aspect of politics can (and will) be reframed by both sides to support their preconceived beliefs.
I've edited my comment to speak in a more neutral political tone.
I'm not sure what you're referring to. I said that in any political situation, people tend to posit the evidence to support their own beliefs. It sounds like you're referring to false balance [0]. But that's not what I'm doing at all - I'm not posing any political beliefs as equally valid, I'm stating that everyone will change the parameters of an argument in order to solidify their beliefs.
FVWM is completely legit as well, albeit a little heavy when compared to TWM or my favorite Rio, with Acme of course. Heavy is relative in this sense, I've run FVWM on reprogrammed childrens toys with the processing power of a warm potato.