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kph
1 year ago
Fun read! A more intentional take on something I've done for years: when I have a lot of stuff to do or need to take notes very quickly, I will forsake any actual note system I have to open up notepad and just start typing. There really isn't anything else with so little friction. I have lost information from forgetting to save, so I've started trying to copy things to named .md files in obsidian ASAP, though.
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
Thanks KPH. Yeah, for me it was just about combining that kind of immediacy with some of the benefits that come with PKM. I'm sure the more complex systems work wonders for many, but they didn't do much for me.
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getoffmylawn
1 year ago
This was a great read and I'm going to research how to add tags to my text file. I've tried before without adding tags before and search was difficult. I would love to find an example online to help.
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nohappynonsense
1 year ago
@getoffmylawn you can just write the tags in using your own nomenclature or system. I use something like [STORY IDEA] as a tag and then i can just ctrl+f for that and find those tags. You can do this for dates, keywords, tags, anything. The search function is extremely powerful, most folks just underutilize it
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
Thanks, @getoffmylawn. I might do a follow-up with some examples since there seems to be a surprising amount of interest. But essentially, I just use the '@' sign as a "tag". Some people use colons, caps, hastags, brackets etc.
Thank you for the follow. Reading your writing has been really exciting!
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New post - Blogs as Modern Commonplace Books: https://mikegrindle.com/posts/commonplace-book
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intorpor
1 year ago
Great post! And I completely agree, I created my website with the exact same idea in mind.
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New post about OS's built for the end times. But really it's all just good fun (hopefully): https://mikegrindle.com/posts/collapse-os
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kaa
1 year ago
Good eye. Dusk OS has been under heavy development for the past few months. The mailing list is very active. Virgil Dupras has recently put in a lot of effort in improving the emulation layer. The makefile in the root directory now works with no frills. Regardless of any theories of impending catastrophe, I think Dusk OS in particular is a marvelous project. It's the first real shot at a Forth Operating System.
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
Thanks! I noticed there was a lot of sensationalized stuff out there on these systems. Articles either made the developer look like a loon or made-out that the system was built for nuclear apocalypse. So I wanted to offer a more no-frills, down-to-earth analysis. Happy to see the project is still moving forward.
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sorbier
1 year ago
!!! i just posted an essay about writing to think. william zinsser also has a whole book about writing to learn
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sorbier
1 year ago
also, relatedly, i came across this verbalisation recently, which has stayed with me “Paper is like a mirror: it lets you hear the very voice of your soul, and it forces you to confront that.” (https://bikobatanari.art/posts/2021/magic-journaling)
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
It's basically been my writing philosophy for the last year or so and I think it has served me pretty well. I love that quote. Thanks for the link and will be sure to check out your new piece on the subject!
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Loved your blog, specially the permacomputing text.
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Fixing up some site code which, as always, means there's a slight chance I break everything
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Just realized I've been running my little site for over a year now. Do I get my 'Web Master' badge yet?
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>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/permacomputing Thanks for writing on this. I argue that we have been wasteful *because* of the advancements of computing hardware. The focus is on speed before efficiency or durability. Likewise, popular software has grown to suit the convenience. Should computer hardware stop increasing in speed, developers may stop upping their hardware expectations,
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kaa
1 year ago
and then people who value their time can afford to keep a computer for a decade instead of 3 years.
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kaa
1 year ago
I own and occasionally use a 12 year-old laptop. The keyboard on it is great, and the touchpad is much better than the modern ones. Opening three heavy web sites at the same time causes disk swapping.
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
Thanks, appreciate you reading. Unfortunately, I don't see any such slowdown becoming the norm, but we can still strive for better. They really don't make keyboards like they used to, right? I always work my tech into the ground but I don't think I've hit the 12-year mark before. My current laptop is about 6-7 years old and doing okay (with a lightweight Linux).
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
Currently using Peppermint OS with Awesome WM. Linux Mint Xfce is brilliant if your hardware isn't too old. AntiX is a good choice if its ancient.
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owlroost
1 year ago
To add more lightweight options: quite a few people I know swear by Alpine as a lightweight choice. Void is popular if you prefer rolling release. Debian can be light if you set it up that way and has the added perk of very slow updates.
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nohappynonsense
1 year ago
thanks owl, i'll look into alpine as well. i use ubuntu on my regular set up cuz i'm a normie, but i do want to revive some ancient chromebooks with something very light
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kaa
1 year ago
Alpine is great. It uses musl libc https://musl.libc.org/, which uses much less memory than GNU libc https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/. My 12-year old laptop boots it in 30 seconds, and I've only beaten that metric using a purpose-compiled kernel on a source-based distribution https://kisslinux.org/. It requires some technical know-how, however documentation is readily available https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki.
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If nothing else, this got me to pick up an old messy draft and get it good enough to post. I've been wanting to get back into blogging but keep starting never finishing. So thanks for the poke.
I felt a bit off about posting such a meta piece, but now I'm glad I did :-)