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No autosaving. That's the wrong way to try to be minimalist.
Yea, that’s something that stuck out to me as well. Seems like auto save and version control could be done in a minimalist manner whist improving QOL
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The old timey trick is to write “TK”, for “look this up later”. It’s not a common letter combination so it’s easy to visually or automatically scan for. Example: > The moon is TK miles from earth. Write away, don’t get distracted by the details, and catch up afterward when you’ve shifted to editor mode.
I apply this to writing as well as coding. To keep the flow, I leave TODO: notes, and later I search for the TODO: and see what needs attention.
I like the idea of a distraction-free writing environment. However, when I'm writing, I find I sometimes need to do research. I suppose for the best writing flow I should block time for research and time for pure writing. However, if I discover I need to look something up, a hard block on internet access would be a problem. Of course it's a slippery slope from researching something on Wikipedia to navigating to relat…
For example…
Whether - expressing a doubt or choice between two alternatives.
Wether - a castrated ram
That one letter makes a big difference.
Being able to toggle a mode in your desktop environment / window manager / etc would do a lot
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I apply this to writing as well as coding. To keep the flow, I leave TODO: notes, and later I search for the TODO: and see what needs attention.
Feels like a lot IDEs now call out `TODO:` text; I think VS Code does this for most languages.
a single fucking screenshot would go a long way to convincing me this is real. considering I lost an hour yesterday trying to use an open source library that turned out to be vibe coded non-functional slop, I have to ask for evidence that the project is real and functional be presented front and center
I don’t disagree but in the about they explain it’s just a Debian install that boots into the tilde editor.
That opinion can also apply to many distro derivatives using the same packages as the original. Releasing images for what are just minor changes of configuration seems like a waste of storage, bandwith and energy in general.
I had a good laugh. Why does anyone want this? Put Linux on your laptop and nuke the network stack. Done.
Because then you'd have to do that.
Take your standard Linux distro…
Make a new user. Login. Uninstall the apps you don’t want. Uninstall the web browser.
You don’t really even have to set up an autostart script to turn off WiFi for this user, but you can if you want. The user not having a web browser installed should be enough.
That’s it, you’re done.
I’ve looked into a few options like this over the years (e.g. the Freewrite, or even an old Alphasmart), but always came to the conclusion they added more friction to my writing process, not less.