Don't use Firefox, use Lynx.
Better yet, boycott http etc entirely.
Gopher or die.
Why are you still using a backlit display? Pipe your terminal into a passive character LCD and go to bed when the sun goes down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOaahWFfug
Alt-ASCIIart image for those already on a 20x4 display (modified to fit in a 20x4 display):
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║Debian GNU/Linux ║
║ttyACM0 Login: █ ║
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This is your life now.
Modern computing has revealed itself to be mostly unreasonable.
Go outside; potatoes need harvesting, the birds are eating your tomatoes, and the chickens haven't been fed yet.
12 Comments
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 2y
You are making compelling arguments, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com · 8 pts · 2y
Newsletter? Surely you meant their BBS
CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Make sure to have a good coop for the messenger pigeon
vala@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
I know this is a joke but this is oddly appealing to me.
rcbrk@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
It started as a joke, finished as a journal entry.
rewarp@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
I read the title as a joke, and the more I read, the more I want it.
koncertejo@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
I'm actually a fan of this lol. This blog has tons to say on low-power computing. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ The biggest bloat on your computer is the modern web! Everything could run on a Raspberry Pi if not for it!
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 2y
Anyways as my chickens have already been fed and it's too early in the year for planting tomatoes, why not sit at my machine that eats whole forests so that I can look at cats and argue with people far away. But in color please, and with moving stuff and special effects! Trying to read slrpnk on a Raspberry Pi seems a little hardcore. I'd welcome turning image and video into something special and valuable again and return to text-based communication.
The other day I was talking to some people who share an interest and I mentioned that I had started to collect my literature about the topic in an online library reachable for all, and I was really excited - and just harvested blank stares. 'We just watch youtube videos.' .__.
CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Still thinking about the sheer number of retro-computing people I know.
Also you say this about the potatoes, tomatoes, and chickens, but what about the other plants? Your lettuce is looking wilty.
wildcherry@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
I found my people <3
toaster@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Flip bits with a needle and a button battery or gtfo /s
Cool project btw!
tinspin@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
I think we definitely need to drop the browser in a trash can... But HTTP/1.1 should be salvageable just like JSON. Personally I feel the Java Applet was the USP of the browser. The JVM is the emulator!