Morning Thoughts
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Yesterday I saw a good friend from out of town, had good conversation
and did some thinking but not much computing. Today I'm having time off
work so a bit more computing.
While using low tech systems, often I've got some other supplemental
system which helps it along. Sometimes I picture it automatically
grabbing URL's (especially HTTPS ones) that I encounter and make them
easy to view outside the low tech system, or serving as some kinda proxy
back into it. Went down a rabbit hole of pondering converting webpages
to images with clickable imagemaps that I can 'easily' use from the
lower tech system, but this is likely a bad idea. Would love to be
proven wrong there.
A nice idea: circling back a week or two after OCC to contemplate any
lasting effects on habits.
Will I just be: Camping out on a modern computer with a bunch of tabs
open, scatterbrain style endless scrolling and chatting in lots of
little windows. Or something else?
I'm planning now to set up a powermac again from the closet running
classic mac os here at my desk and carry over some focused workflows
resurfaced during OCC. Using the iBook is nice but having my hands on
quite warm old hardware is less nice than using a comfy keyboard and
bigger screen.
Ideal Supplemental System
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* Small but capable (like rpi) CPU with GPIO designed to power from
battery, maybe do video over usb c
* Portable LCD like lenovo thinkvision m
* usb hub, battery, speaker, stuff all rigged onto the back of the
display
* simple custom keyboard, mouse
* a system 'focused' on being a bridge and hub between other systems.
still minimal for the task
* desktop is for when you need lots of processing, not 100 tabs
* This is what is popping in my mind today
