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blogging via typewriter? How about writing via file-transfer?

~tffb

So, I have CricketWireless, it is a 5gb plan, so no Hotspot option, which means my laptop (the HP14, cool-y named x2600) is an offline device. I keep it on Airplane Mode, and just transfer any/all new documents/content/etc over to it via USB-C and the phone.

On my phone (moto G) I have a single file in the Downloads section, called transfer-1.txt. I can plug my phone into my laptop, open this file on the Debian Text Editor on Debian 12, and start typing. Then, it is right there ready to go on the phone to copy/paste into Midnight.pub, Write.as, anywhere and everywhere I see fit. A File Transfer Blog Protocol! lmao!

I hit Save, and I can do with this document what I will

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~detritus wrote (thread):

Yes that's pretty much what I've wanted to do for a while. I have a little laptop where I want to install plan9 as the only OS. Plan9 doesn't have the drivers for the wireless card of that little fellow, it would be an offline device, like a typewriter with sed and awk, if you will.

I would use it to write everything I want to write, and only perhaps plug it via ethernet (I'd have to bring the router all the way to the computer for a little while) to upload to wherever I want to upload. I am thinking, however, that I'm unlikely to upload most of what I write in it. It will probably stay there for no-one to see.

~inquiry wrote (thread):

I think you're onto something from a mental health point of view.

It might not be so much that books are "real", as their availability resolves to "what is humanly possible" - in contrast to online, where more more more is never more (ha) than a flit away, a keystroke or few, maybe save some endpoints and promise yourself you'll get to them, discover gobs of the same utterly unread months later, but in the mean time more more more accumulation... oh, how to organize?! how to back up for the long term assumed to be there.. and I'm panting just typing out a miniscule of the reality of the situation.

(Huh... a sudden rush of 'miniscule'/'molecule' association ponder....)

What you refer to sounds like bringing online into the realm what what's actually humanly possible/consumable.

~tffb wrote:

Right. A warped phone screen almost mandates I use this (really fun) method. F*** virtual keyboards anyway

~inquiry wrote:

Whatever floats your blog! :-)