Thank you very much =)

It looks nice and the wallpaper is great. Would you mind sharing a source for it?

Genaus so ein “Puzzle” hatte ich damals vor mir liegen, aber dank der Photos und ein bisschen Ausprobieren fanden alle Teile (auch gehüpfte Federn) wieder ihren korrekten Platz.

Bei mir hat die Bohrer-Methode immer gut mit meinen normalen Metallbohrern funktioniert. Es gibt anscheinend aber auch spezielle "Schraubenausdreh"bohrer, die u.a. sich beim Auf-/Linksdrehen nicht aus der Schraube drehen.

Mein Vater würde übrigens einfach eine Schraube auf die Schaube schweißen (wenn die Schraube geeignet ist) und dann mit Zange oder Schraubendreher herausdrehen. Damit habe ich aber nur Erfahrung als Zuschauer 😆

Hope I have interpreted the photo correctly and this is just a metal screw, that has become to round to be screwed out with a hex wrench.

In such case, I use a drilling machine to carefully drill a small metal-suited drill a few millimeters into the screw. Then I remove the drilling machine and hold the drill (still in the screw) with combination pliers (or similar pliers) and unscrew the metal screw (again carefully).

I hope my translation of the tool names are close enough to understand what I mean :)

In German it would be: Einen Metallbohrer mit Bohrmaschine einige mm in die Schraube bohren, dann mit Kombizange den Bohrer festhalten und zusammen mir Schraube herausdrehen.

EDIT: also please be careful when opening up the keyboard and document your steps with photos. When I repaired a 80s Korg some years ago, there where many parts that could spring out of place, e.g. when lifting the keys.

Many thanks OP for starting this thread and also big thank you to all suggesting Mull and Mulch. I was not aware of those apps and will try out both of them.

Here are some links to start from:

• DivestOS website with information about their apps: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps
• Mull directly from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
• Mulch only from DivestOS F-Droid Repo: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.mulch/ - must enable repo first!

I really liked the Bromite browser on my mobiles, but unfortunately it did not get (security) updates for a longer time. From the many discussions in the Issue tracker asking about status of the project, I could not get a clear clue about the situation, but fact is that the last Bromite release is from Dec 2022.

From here Bromite is Dead, Use Cromite Instead I learned about and tried to switch to Cromite, but on my 32-bit Android devices it is still very unstable.

Definitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow “Microsoft Free Workstation” stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.

Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.

The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.

Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑‍🏫

Or … 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓

(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)

I know what you mean, but who are this “double click” and “exe” guys?

• Press RUN/STOP and SHIFT.

• PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

• Press PLAY on tape.

• OK
  SEARCHING
  FOUND Ultimate Game II

• Take walk with the dog.
• Play game.

please see this comment above

“Edge of Thorns” was and is a masterpiece in my eyes (ears).
On the other hand I am a Savatage fan for 30 years, so maybe not too objective on this matter 🤘😅

Unfortunately, the linked video “is not available” for me (in Germany?)

All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select “Other”, but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

https://metager.org | https://metager.de

From their About page:

What makes MetaGer special?

MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

• Possibility of creating a personal blacklist
• Function of the search in the search
• Advertising-free search possible
• Integration of search engine projects like YaCy
• The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes
• And much more…

What We Stand For

Guaranteed Privacy

Data protection and privacy are important to us. That’s why we don’t track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy (“Open Anonymously” feature).

Non-Profit Association

MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

Diverse and Free

MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

100% Renewable Energy

Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.

If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.

We always liked the Syberia series alot. Aside from all the Lucas Arts classics, we also (very) enjoyed playing the following 90/2000 (style) adventures:

• The Broken Sword series
• Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars | Download free version
• Runaway: A Road Adventure
• Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
• Thimbleweed Park
• Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
• Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes

Historic

• Flight of the Amazon Queen | Free at GOG
• Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
• Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
• Ankh | Ankh: Heart of Osiris | Ankh: Battle of the Gods

Fantasy, fairy tales

• Discworld
• Discworld 2: Missing Presumed…!?
• Inherit the Earth
• The Simon the Sorcerer series - mainly part 1 and 2
• The Legend of Kyrandia
• The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate
• The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm’s Revenge
• The Book of Unwritten Tales
• The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
• The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
• The Whispered World

SciFi

• Machinarium
• Blade Runner
• Floyd - The Feeble Files
• Deponia | Chaos on Deponia | Goodbye Deponia | Deponia Doomsday
• Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World
• Beneath a Steel Sky | Free at GOG