Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space
oh hi! i do computers, and sometimes draw stuff~ i like lo-fi things and cute aesthetics!
i also probably like you
(also, tagged #abdl ahead, soooo 🔞)
Joined Nov 2017
@cinnamon i'm curious too!
i feel like just having the ability to go full linux on something in general would be like opening the floodgates for me~
I already do an awful lot with "almost linux" environments, and not having those limitations would be pretty cool
even more so on something with a phone form factor ^^
@bx i love having excuses to use them too! and a journal only needs the ability to write words and save, which makes it kinda perfect for actually using things i'm not very good at
even after using this for a pretty long time, plan 9 is still really strange. but i've also learned a lot!
@m455 awww, i'm glad!
it's no good to feel no good~
i absolutely adore everything they do
why haven't i hoovered literally everything they've made yet
the sheer amount of effort i put into getting things to work with my pebble, and the lengths i go to get weird linuxy things working on my phone, i feel like i'm pretty much exactly the target audience for pine64
hee, i should probably do something with them sometime huh?
i do have a changes.txt file, and a tricks.txt specifically for the nifty little things i find (and do) with the system, but pretty much the entire thing has just become an extremely lo-fi personal writing box
it's weird how it feels even more lo-fi than living in a cli to me (though to me, that will always be a pretty rad aesthetic as well)
i love how neat it feels journalling on a tiny plan 9 pi
it's never been connected to the internet, and i haven't even set the date on it, but i've probably written many thousands of words on it so far
it's super basic, but that's part of the aesthetic for me..!
@cinnamon this rules and you rule!
@cinnamon hell yeah!!!
Crinklewott 💕
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TIL the makers of Barbie dolls sued the group Aqua for their song Barbie Girl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel,_Inc._v._MCA_Records,_Inc.
Mattel lost, and the ruling concluded that "the parties are advised to chill"
re unsolicited suggestion
@codl ah dang
if that doesn't work, then i feel like the best bet for something ad-free would probably be google lens: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.ar.lens
hopefully one of those two things can save you some headache. it's always fun being tasked with finding things like this for people who aren't tech-savvy :s
especially in environments that are as subtly user-hostile as app stores can be--since they mean a lot of exhausting work to vet things you've never interacted with before
unsolicited suggestion
@codl actually, now that i think about it, are you familiar with how android reads qr codes natively in its camera now? (i ask because it took me an embarrassingly long time to discover that)
basically, if they open their camera and point it at a qr, a little popup appears at the bottom that lets them visit links and read text
(sorry if this is starting to channel reply-guy energy, i just don't like the idea of you getting frustrated at this if you didn't know about this)
unsolicited suggestion, but so you don't need to dust off android studio hopefully
@codl depending on what the thing is, sometimes you can use things like termux (and tasker if you want it to interact with the gui parts of your phone)
...it's absolutely *bonkers* that using a cli on a phone is just legitimately more convenient sometimes, but i can't even count the number of times the answer to "i want to do x" was "write a ruby script and connect it to a widget"
@codl flashbacks to finding a pdf reader that wasn't google drive
when you get to the end of a long video essay and it says "now go to bed"
jean shorks (jorks)
emerging from the abyss a little, maybe, hopefully soon
oh hi! i do computers, and sometimes draw stuff~ i like lo-fi things and cute aesthetics!
i also probably like you
(also, tagged #abdl ahead, soooo 🔞)
Joined Nov 2017
