I never watched an X-men, nor the old Dune, so for me Patrick Stewart is Jean-Luc Picard.

I did using Gemini (the protocol, not Google’s thing) and Gopher.

Your machine is not only pretty, but also very interesting!

So, after asking on the typewriter Discord, people there confirmed my suspicions, there’s something off with this number: it lacks a prefix and is black on white while normally they are white on black. Conclusion: it’s probably reinscribed, so there’s no way to know if it’s the original one or not.

However, the features are coherent for a machine with that serial, so it’s probable that it’s the original one, but reinscribed after a service, for example. So it looks like you have a machine constructed within the first year of production. It turns 100 this year, or in 2026, that’s cool :-).

But there’s also an other possibility: there’s stories that typewriter enthusiasts tell each others around campfires that some Underwood could have been assembled in Europe. Is the country of fabrication mentioned anywhere on the machine? Probably in the back, under the patents?

It looks like it is, and if it is you have a very old machine! Probably from 1925 or 1926 (the first year of production). But there’s something a little strange, so I’ll ask people more knowledgeable than me and I confirm this claim, or not.

Gorgeous thing! The model is quite easily discernable: it’s an Underwood Portable, in the 4-bank version (there were a 3-bank version too). Constructed between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1950s, it’s a very beautiful machine!

If you give me its serial number (on the right front flange or leg by which the machine is fastened to the case board) I should be able to give you its exact year of construction, if you’re interested.

Thanks! Do you know the brand and / or model of your typewriter?

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No, thanks to XWayland.

That’s probably because I live in another country which works very differently, so what I’ll say is not a judgement about the veracity of your comment, but I find incredible that $14’000 a month could be in any capacity considered a mediocre salary… the French president earns that in euros!

Ah, you’re Estonian?

I begun with GNOME and always come back to it when I try something else. But that’s what’s wonderful with Linux: there’s choice!

Because if you did, you’d learn that Muslims are normal people. Some are assholes, some are not. Some are straight and homophobic, others are proudly queer. You could argue that Islam is bad because it encourages homophobia, that’s an acceptable opinion. But saying that all Muslims are homophobic is bigoted and just plain wrong. The difference between legitimate criticism and hate is not hard to understand… unless one wants to blur the line, probably to hide one’s hatred.

A lot of Islamophobs are atheists too, you know.

You haven’t met a lot of Muslims, have you?

Criticizing an ideology or a religion, Islam like the others, is always okay. But considering every Muslim as a violent, hating, misogynistic, homophobic, racist and sexist person is bigotry.

Pretty sure this guy is an Islamophobe who pretends to be a Muslim

Their Llamas first.

That’s the internet I love: educational.