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

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

detritus

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.

tffb

This is cat saving above all else. Data plans are pricey. I can do a lot on the phone. The laptop is for slow computing so to speak. I can hop on WiFi somewhere if I need to run updates etc :)

detritus

Data plans are pricey

And for what, to waste them on truckloads of javascript freemwerks, obtrusive ads, and inane reddit discussions about utterly unimportant matters? All those gigabites transfer for a few megabytes, at best, of something that's worth going through the dumpster that is the modern web.

inquiry

"The Web: From Napster to Dumpster"

- Written by ~detritus

- Directed by ~tffb

tffb

Right, I less so browse the Web as I do process JS scripts and output data. AI will likely make all of this 1000xs worse. So, either I go for a 250gb per mo LTE plan to accommodate it, or just do as I do now, stay on small sites, offline (usually) and hird part front ends on mobile so I can avoid ads/trackers.

Very good point there :)

inquiry

"The Web: From Napster to Dumpster"

- Written by ~detritus

- Directed by ~tffb

tffb

Real rags to rags story there ;)

inquiry

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

I am all for hoarding content. Lol

I download sites with wget, I download yt videos, music. Store them on the laptop. Writing I save the good shit.

Also, I started a new zine, uploading now

inquiry

I can't remember the last time I downloaded a video, mainly for essentially never encountering anything worth more than a partial viewing to me. In other words, I"m usually bored and/or rolling my eyes less than a minute into almost every video I watch anymore.

And text is catching up with that, btw. I mean, I got a little caught up in the hope/dream of "smol" spaces somehow being gardens above average writing. But reality eventually caught up with my delusion.

So I still visit varieties of gopher and gemini places (aka "hoping against hope"), but the rate of encountering "wow" content there not seems no different/better than in "web" spaces. In fact, I'm starting to suspect it's worse given the snail-unto-hardened-concrete pace of "smol" posting.

But I think I fully understand the posting pace, because I believe it's reflected in reads/replies. It's just not a very interactive crowd (although it seemingly loves to call itself a "community" despite hardly interacting...).

tffb

I'm hundreds of miles past "wow". Lol. If I saw a guy win a trillion dollars while he back flipped from a helicopter, escorted by naked women, while the helicopter exploded in the background, while professing how "you can do the same" (thinking of this. I am sure this video exists), I still wouldn't bat an eyelash.

Like Bare Naked Ladies "It's All been done before" (RIP the one hit wonders of the late 90s)

inquiry

I'm no casting expert, but it's easy for me to imagine the guy in that scenario being played by Tim "C'mon! Feel the JOY!" Walz.... ;-)

tffb

(sorry for the self promote, but by the title...)

https://lh2600.itch.io/selfish-approvals-issue-1

tffb

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

inquiry

Whatever floats your blog! :-)