On Paragraphs
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I've noticed that every once in a
while, I come across a gemini user who
doesn't seem to organize their writing
into paragraphs. So I click on a
gemlog entry and get assaulted by the
proverbial 16:9 wall of text,
stretching from one end of the screen
to the other. This happens on gopher
as well, but at least the lines tend
to be 72 columns or less.
In any case, that's where I stop
reading. It doesn't matter who the
gemlog (or phlog) belongs to. I just
can't do it and I doubt I'm alone in
that reaction.
If the writer doesn't take the time to
organize the material into
comprehensible sections, I'm not going
to try to wade through it. It's
mentally painful to look at and
difficult to maintain your position as
you read.
So use paragraphs people. They were
invented for a reason!
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I've been following Solene[1] and
sparcipx's[2] adventures in old
computing. Many of the issues that
Solene raised are reminders that the
good old days of computing weren't
always so good!
For me, affordable high-quality
screens have been the nicest
improvement over time. A matte IPS
makes me much happier than my old TN
panel with its narrow viewing angles.
The top of the screen could be
viewable while the bottom was out of
plane and "shadow-bluing" out. I don't
miss that at all.
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We got gigabit internet service the
other day. I'm so disappointed.
Smolnet performance hasn't improved at
all.
[1]
gopher://dataswamp.org/1/~solene
[2]
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/sparcipx/occ
