OCC: DAY 4

	OCC: DAY 4

	STARDATE: 20240716.2334
	LOCATION: Kitchen Table
	INPUT DEVICE: palmOne Tungsten E2 + palmOne IrDa folding keyboard
	AUDIO: Audible typing clicks from E2, rockabilly music from flip
	phone.
	VISUAL: Bowl of cherries, Palm Memos
	EMOTIONAL: ok, content.

	Things from Day \|V:
	- Word To Go issues
	- E2 latency and instability
	- OCC hardware pic
	- Personal computing bottleneck

	OK, DataViz Word To Go is a hog and crashes the E2. It takes
	awhile to load and then the screen gets all funky and I have to hit
	the reset button on the back. Not sure what that is about, but I
	have switched to the native Palm Memos application. Even though
	Memos has its limitations, it's good enough for what I need at the
	moment.

	It seems that each time I use a large app and switch between apps,
	instability is inevitable and I have to reset. For instance I load
	a game (Legacy) and play for a bit, switch to a different app, and
	everything is much slower with the potential of crashing. I don't
	recall things being this way before or with other palm devices.
	Maybe I got spoilt with the speed and task switching of the
	devices of now. I wonder if the E2 is showing its age.

	Here is a pic of my OCC setup. [1] On the left is the palmOne E2,
	It is connected via infrared to the palmOne folding infrared
	keyboard. The keyboard is not bad at all, but not as good as the
	Royal Kludge bluetooth keyboard (right) I use for the Steam Deck
	and other devices, I can touch-type with it all day without
	problems. I do like how compact it is when it is folded and it is
	pretty well protected if I have it in my bag.

	The Nokia N900 is on the right and is connected to the monitor with
	RCA video input. I think the display is 7" and has other input
	options (HDMI, VGA, etc.) I have it mounted on a repurposed
	broken clock. The height is at a nice level when placed on a table
	and it also has speakers, The back of the clock has a door, so I
	store the wall wart and route the cables in there. I had drilled a
	hole in the bottom of the cabinet storage so the cables can be
	accessed from the drawer. Pretty handy setup for testing video
	out. The N900 is below the larger screen and the Royal Kludge
	keyboard is in front of the clock base on the cutting mat.

	One of the things I am not liking in dealing with my old hardware
	is my lack of patience and motivation for doing things the "old
	way." I used to be fine doing things the "old way"...when I was in
	practice and until I got used to doing things a "better" way or
	"different" way.

	It's akin to my guitar playing. I gravitate m0ar to what is easy.
	Practicing music I already know and practicing regularly is easy.
	Playing pieces I haven't practiced in a long time or learning new
	pieces is hard. Creating original pieces is next-level challenging!

	I think I am at the point in my personal computing...or maybe even
	my life, where I got too much exposure to different software,
	hardware, technologies, and ways of doing things that I'm at the
	point of buffer overflow. My wetware is flooded and is resisting
	m0ar! Somebody pleez turn of da intarwebz firehose! There is too
	much hiss in the signal! There are CRC errors and packets are
	dropping at the smartjack! loopback remote line fdl bellcore!
	Time for Out Of Band Management! /me drops down to single-user
	mode. I CAN'T KEEP UP! I CAN'T KEEP UP! I CAN'T KEEP UP!!! OUT
	OF STEP WITH THE WORLD!!!

	And I think that is why these days I use a flip phone for my
	personal mobile, limit my online/computing time, spend most of my
	time in meatspace...with limited exposure to people. Well, I'm not
	sure what this is, but that is where I am at today and probably a
	story for another time.

	[1] Bad OCC Hardware Pic
	(taken with Treo 680 camera)