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Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by bitwize »

Before dunking on this lady for rolling her own writerdeck Linux distro, consider that I see advertisements for rather weaksauce devices, often with tiny LCD or, if they're posh, e-paper screens and very limited functionality compared to something like vim, for between $500 and $1200 USD. For an electric typewriter whose entire value proposition could have been achieved with a DOS PC.

Veronica put a used laptop to work achieving much the same thing for next to nothing, except her time of course. It's not reverse-engineering an obscure Space Shuttle computer, but it's the kind of effort I think we want to reward on a site called Hacker News.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by bitwize »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #86
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

That's how most of us started blogging lol

Yeah, I cobbled together an SSG in Guile back in the day.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by cgriswald »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #151
cgriswald wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went with paper and pen precisely because there was always more I wanted to do with my computer work flow.

how did you decide which pens to go with?

Slow down. I’m still deciding on what size of notebook and whether I go dotted or blank.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by em-bee »

elias1233 wrote: post #93

Very interesting! But how do you display images?

fbi - the framebuffer image viewer. various versions exist. there is also a webbrowser and a pdf viewer among other things. i figure the pdf viewer is especially handy for someone focused on writing. and the browser may be good enough to handle a blog...

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by TiredOfLife »

iib wrote: post #56

If anyone wants to try this without the intricate setup, if you have a linux system, you most probably can just press Ctrl+Alt+F3 and drop into a tty console directly. To return, you have to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F2. You also have multiple consoles, up until F12 probably. I used to use this a lot when trying for a less distracting desktop, just like in the original post.

you missed the fbcon thing

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by egeozcan »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

I think writing a static site generator was the first moment I felt like I may be serious about this programming thing.

Those losers who still need Perl on their servers better be ready for a mind explosion

...thought, me back in (too lazy to look up which year it was). I probably published like two things with it, spent (what felt like) a million person hours on it, just to abandon it and use Textpattern.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by TiredOfLife »

salamander014 wrote: post #29

I've wanted to do this for a while. Thanks for detailing your setup! I hope one day I find the time to try it. I've also always yearned for more usability from just the command line. There's no tui spotify client, is there? Maybe I should break out my mp3 collection again... I'm trying to think of what else I'd really need to not need a GUI machine for my day to day. Maybe email? Lynx and other tui browsers are not u…

There is https://www.cliamp.stream/

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by josmar »

dv35z wrote: post #167
daoboy wrote: post #6

I'm desperately awaiting the perfect eink device for this. I've got a great writing setup on Obsidian that really works for me, a royal kludge mechanical keyboard...just waiting on the next gen of eink The Boox One Note Max was sooo close, but they almost immediately discontinued the product and probably won't be supporting it long. Suggestions are welcome

My dream device is the "Solar A5 e-ink computer" - It's A5-sized laptop, so it fits in a leather zipped case for journals. If you're familiar with HP Journadas / Sony Vaios from early 2000s, that's roughly the form factor. There's a solar panel on the back of the screen / outside of the enclosure. The screen is e-ink, and the operating system is Linux Mint Debian Edition. For console mode, a good "writing station" ap…

I use a Bigme Hibreak Pro eink phone, nix-on-droid/ssh to home server over tailscale, and a foldable keyboard, to have my coding setup with me and not be tied to where I can carry a laptop.

For foldable keyboards, if they are flimsy or stable matters.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by rendaw »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

I'd agree, but in this case they were able to write a blog post that got (as of now) 300+ points and 200+ comments with the content of their work.
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