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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Yeah, because of the same experience for the last 2 decades, I always shut my stuff down as well.

    Then I gave an old laptop with Linux to my neoprene nephew. And without further discussion or thinking, he just pressed the power button, when he wanted it to be off - which triggered some kind of sleep mode
    I was so fucking nervous during that, as I had never tested for that, and for the young generation growing up with smartphones that was the obvious move.
    But surprisingly it works like a charm and goes into some kind of standby.
    At least I didn’t got any complains…


  • As mentioned in the linked comments, I think just using something like Tinker Writer Deck ( https://tinker.sh/ ) or even just using something like focuswriter in a slimmed down modern OS, is a much easier approach - because of much easier interfacing with the outside world (and used hardware). That way you can use rather normal stuff like rsync to backup your work through an actual ethernet or WiFi connection.

    But I must admit, I really like the sentiment of the article :⁠-⁠)
    (Although I’m a bit put off by his self referencing as a ‘vulture’ - but maybe I’m just out of the loop here…)