Threads for soapdog

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      i know there are some smol computer lovers around here đź‘€

      that reform looks gorgeous

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        Thanks for posting it here <3 <3 <3 PS: I’m the author, AMA

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          I’m exactly like you and looking for exactly the same kind of device : very good (ortho) keyboard, small screen (e-ink for better visibility in the sun and battery).

          I’ve written about my quest here : https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

          Unfortunately, I’m really angry against Astrohaus for the Freewrite. Their software are a shame, force using a proprietary cloud and are full of bugs. My Freewrite, despite its weight, have no more battery than my laptop. The traveler has a very very bad keyboard to the point of making it unusable for me (I had to send it back because some keys were always quadrupled. Now, the space is only working if I press it really violently). See gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2021-10-07.gmi

          Placing all my hope on the MNT Pocket even if I would need to adapt my layout to the keyboard. Hoping to see an eink version soon to use with only a terminal. Neovim, Neomutt and Offpunk are all I need 95% of the time ;-)

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      I do like me some BBS’s. And FIDO mail is pretty cool, and works great in batching jobs.

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        I have fond memories of that as well. I wonder if these protocols make sense in the context of my small browser.

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          probably not a small browser :(

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      Gopher was my only idea.. didn’t think about finger. That would be interesting.

      Before we had Gopher, we FTP’d every where. Or BBS’

      -Dr. WaSabi (Russ)

      P.S. your browser looks really cool by the way.

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        Thanks for the kind words! :-) I miss BBS’ soooo much…

        I might attempt to add finger and gopher to Fafi.

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      As far as I know, there was only one or two proof-of-concept mercury things built. Spartan as a gemini-lite has a few more, but not much.

      Gopher is my first obvious answer to your question. Then I’d also suggest finger. twtxt possibly.

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        Spartan

        All I can find is cryptocurrency stuff. Do you have a link for that protocol?

        Gopher, finger, twtxt

        There is another Racket-based gopher client, I was avoiding stepping on their own lawn :-)

        Will check if finger and twtxt are doable.

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            oh that is great! thanks a lot.

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      This was a great read.

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      In my own personal and subjective experiments, I came to the opposite conclusion. Light themes rock. Some of friends who did similar tests complained about their eyes hurting. Upon checking it out, we realized that the problem was not really the light theme but the display brightness and the colorscheme. People often mix light theme with “LET’S BLIND THE USER WITH A WHITE BACKGROUND!” and their brightness set to supernova levels. That doesn’t work at all.

      Light themes is not about them being white, it is about choosing lighter shades. The sweet spot for me is pastel colours. Choosing subtle pastels made my editor of choice much more pleasing to use. A good example of pastel interfaces are old HP Vue and CDE screenshots. Yes, there were dark themes for them, but most themes were towards the light part of the spectrum. Plan9 also makes good use of pastels.

      I advise people not to be turned out from lighter themes by this post, try it out for yourselves, but for for subtle shades, not for high contrast white backgrounds. Heck, the linked theme is using #ffffff as the background, that alone will make your eyes hurt a ton. Remember most of your screen real state is background, choose a pleasing tone.

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        Yes I love a nice pastel – I was vibing with #ffffef for a long time. Plan9 has the best pastel scheme.

        Also +1 to turning down the brightness – I have my screen at about 30% unless I’m outside in the sun.

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        Thanks for this reply soapdog! I have honestly been trying out light modes in everything for months, on and off, and this is nice to know!

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        Well said

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      I have fond memories of RIPgraphics