Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@iitalics this checks out

my laptop constantly tells me this too

@Temmie19 !!

TIL (and thank youuu!)

@iitalics i like how that's also a very different thing that actually existed

also how all eMacs had emacs on them because OSX

tablets are such a high baseline, honestly

even super-old ones can be extraordinarily useful, and it always feels nice being able to reuse things like this in such meaningful ways ^^

oh! it's really nice to use too! it reacts to me locking and unlocking my computer by doing the same, and can be controlled with my computer's keyboard and mouse by moving it off the far left of my screen

i used to just like...casually sit in tilde.town's irc! i still have my usenet, gopher, and gemini stuff still all set up too

i did need to grab a new termux before the one i was using would implode though, but that was an easy move

it usually is pretty light on battery, but when i plug it into my computer, it:

• watches a special calendar for commands and things to make a bluetooth speaker say
• extracts data from push notifications for annoying apps to make them actually useful
• acts as another syncthing node for my files to live
• starts an ssh server
• and acts as a starting point for a notification system for things i write that would take too much battery on my phone to always run

big fan of how much stuff you can still do with a slow, dated tablet!

i set mine up again, and all of my termux, tasker, and deskdock stuff still just works!

controlling my lights with org-mode blocks because i have good hobbies

today is a kigurumi day

@lyncia but yeah! hopefully i haven't been too annoying with my infodumps ^^'

i'm just kinda extremely emacs, and i figured that knowing about this at least could save you a lot of hours of frustration, since emacs isn't really known for being particularly easy to pick up

@lyncia depending how deep you are into it, i think it helps to notice that basically everything has tab completion--and even when it doesn't look like it, esc then tab will still probably do completion for what you're looking at

this is basically the biggest way i use things i'm unfamiliar with in emacs

also, if you haven't used it much, C-h is game-changing! it turns emacs from a black box into something where you know how to get help for anything you're unfamiliar with

like, C-h m will describe the mode you're in right now and list all the keys that are available, C-h k tells you what any key or click does, and if you did something weird, C-h l lists all the things you just did with the commands they ran right next to them. C-h i even brings up actual full ebooks about pretty much everything you can just...browse (C-h ? lists all the things C-h can show help for)