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Blackberry 10 Revival
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- GitHub - sw7ft/BerryCore: This project is built as a continuation and tribute to the incredible work done by the developers of Berry Much OS. Their dedication to keeping the BlackBerry 10 and QNX platform alive laid the foundation for everything that follows here.
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- 144 words
I installed this on one of my many, many BlackBerries and boy howdy am I impressed at the potential here. We are looking at a future where there is a modern [QNX OS] (https://github.com/sw7ft/QNX-Handhelds) that carries on the lineage of what I think, was an amazing operating system.
Roast me but honestly I loved BB10 and especially the hub. I have been messing around with BerryCore on a BlackBerry Classic and it is super cool the only worry I have is that I'm exposing myself to bad actors given the ancient software.
If you guys want to see my BlackBerry collection I can post it but only one is running root w/ shell and of course doom
I bought a BB10 phone for cheap after the OS was discontinued, just so I would get a chance to experience it, and yeah, it was pretty good! Anyone who likes the card-based multitasking should take a look at Sailfish, but I have yet to see a better software keyboard than the one in BB10.
I recently bought the new Jolla, so I probably won't be seriously looking into BB10 any time soon, but this is still cool to see.
i got elinks working on it and i'm trying to post with it but it's been a long time since i've used a text based browser lol!
also has there ever been a better software keyboard? holding alt then getting 3rd options for your physical keys I mean c'mon that is awesome. I don't even have to look at the keyboard, it's just second nature. meanwhile the iphone I own I find has a disgusting typing experience. 2 cents!
this is pretty groundbreaking as I understand for BB10 development, https://www.patreon.com/bb10root/posts/autoroot-v4-173081862 i'm in no way advertising the patreon BUT I made a goal this year to develop a native BB10 application, my progress so far has been slow
growing up I primarily used a BlackBerry as a journal, because I found that having a keyboard on you just for writing down daily thoughts was more enjoyable than lugging around a notebook. That's not to say I didn't also do that as well. Those were simpler times though, I remember getting BBM pins from girls in my highschool and making sure they saw I was listening to really thoughtful deep music like bon iver lol. nowadays I just think there's a lot of potential for grassroots development ever since [bbroot came out with this] (https://bb10.root.sx/blog/autoroot-v4) seriously impressive
Don't worry, none of us cringe at you but definitely with you. Genuinely, I don't know a single person my age that didn't do the exact same thing. Myself included
MSN Messenger used to be the bees knees here though. We'd do the same with our screen names. "I'm fourteen and this is deep" type usernames. Of course we'd go offline and online repeatedly so you'd show up on everyone's screen. Performative stuff, hyper cringe, but a lovely memory nonetheless. It was rather harmless. I'm not a person that wants to go back to my high school years, but I do miss the general feeling of the era. It was all a pretty safe way to grow up with changing tech and the blossoming internet. Cringe was just something you did as part of growing up, not something to record and world star online.
the chain emails were annoying at the time but whenever I find myself in my archives, and I see one where my classmate sent me a "bloody mary will kill u unless u send this 2 five of ur friends!!!" it's like i'm hit with a wave of nostalgia. makes sense if you're 30+ give or take it's very much stranger in a strange land. Growing up in the country in Canada during the 2000's though, wouldn't give it up for anything.
I suppose that's a good way of putting it. I also wouldn't trade growing up in the nineties and aughties for anything. It was a good time! The Peace dividend was in full effect and that radiated to kids growing up at the time.
What’s the peace dividend?
It's a fairly loaded term, politically speaking, so ignoring for now: the broad strokes are the economical and cultural benefits people in the 90s and early 2000s enjoyed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The lack of a peer/near peer adversary allowed a lot of demilitarization, which caused a glut in other sectors of government when the budgets shifted from defense spending to elsewhere. This was mainly felt in Western Europe and North America.
Why the term is loaded, well the long and short is that there are arguments that the USA never benefitted from it themselves as they looked for additional wars to keep funding the military industrial complex instead of feeding the budget back into society. Additionally, it caused a lot of discussion around the NATO GDP spending targets where Europe became a little too comfortable with the peace dividend, which bit them especially hard when Russia decided to invade Ukraine and break the peace.
That's neither here nor there in the scope of BlackBerry or MSN, what's important is that the end result is that a lot of us growing up during that time have enjoyed a really stable period, economically, politically, or otherwise.
Beyond that, I'd argue that since it wasn't necessary to immediately pollute the internet with propaganda it gave us a peaceful moment in time in discovering this technology with unprecedented freedom.
The corporate landgrab came much later, and the ever increasingly stricter controls imposed by countries themselves are only now rearing their heads. Right as peace is no longer a given.
So yeah.. I'm fairly content about growing up back then. Well... maybe a year or two earlier would've given me a better mortgage by the time I could afford it though ha.