Cassandra is only carbon nowFuck me, fuck everything, fuck this whole climate-burning labor-killing fraud. I just want to touch computers, not constantly guard against rogue scams taking over evey aspect of my online life.
If anyone needs me I'll be wrapping everything I own with an antenna, a battery, or a power supply in concrete, dumping them in the ocean, and moving into the most remote wilderness imaginable, never to be seen or heard from again.
Iván RuvalcabaHave you considered typewriter?
* Never uploads your work to someone else's cloud.
* Works during power outages.
* No subscription needed. Buy once and it's yours!
* No microdots!
* True zero-latency wysiwyg writing!
* Won't plagiarize your work!
Jeff Miller (orange hatband)@xgranade I love my Smith-Corona Galaxie Portable. It never gives me rEVERSE cAPS!
Blake C. Stacey@xgranade I wrote the first draft of my PhD thesis with an antique fountain pen that I bought from a guy who, among other hobbies, trades in antique fountain pens.
lafnlab@bstacey @xgranade A week or so ago I fell down the rabbit hole of the #FountainPen hashtag and been amazed by what people are doing with them.
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Michal@xgranade I have a Remington I should use more often. It's currently reserved for angry Letters to the Editor.
Canageek@xgranade As much as I hate the spying, I know people who had to type their PhD thesis on one of those, and I think Word2.0 (the windows 3.1 version I used growing up) is as far back as I can go. Possibly I could go back to WordPerfect on DOS if pressed
Rajnhildo Ursidino 
ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)@chiraag @reinhilde @xgranade I mean that's what I use now, I wasn't sure for how far back it was available on Windows.... and I definitely would not want to use plain TeX
Hurricane Daveosaurus@reinhilde @Canageek @xgranade My favourite ever word processor fit on a 5¼" floppy with room left over for about 200 kB of documents... they don't make them that simple any more...
@Canageek My mom wrote hers in WordStar, back in the day.
(And yes, it's a shitpost. I definitely don't suggest typewriters are at all practical for most uses these days.)
Kevin Karhan 
@xgranade @Canageek consider some #CLI / #TUI #Linux and either #neovim ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OyfL5o7DU ), #nano or #ne ( https://ne.di.unimi.it/ ) or if you don't want to miss TUI interfaces, give #Codium ( https://vscodium.com/ ) or if money isn't a concern, #SublimeText ( https://www.sublimetext.com/ )...
gravitos 
@xgranade Can’t dvo my rak on that one, sorry.
johnaldis@reinhilde @xgranade You need one of the ones with a removable golf ball
Alison Meeks@xgranade Or you could just use some #simple, #airgapped #Linux machine like getting a cheap old #ThinkPad and put @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabsLinux or @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS on.
In fact, I do have an old #VaioP #P11Z with #BunsenLabs on and that's a cute little writing machine...
Tho I'm working on @OS1337 and once that's done this should provide users with #DistractionFreeComputing & #DistractionFreeWriting in 80x25 characters...
Shameless self-promotion aside: Yes, I do have a typewriter too...
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@xgranade Have you considered fountain pen? Much cheaper and more portable, easier to color-coordinate with outfits, and makes a great gift.
Robin@xgranade I bet 50/50 odds that within the year someone will have made a "smart" AI-powered typewriter for "that perfect blend of nostalgia and modern tech gigabrain"
Lufty 
@xgranade I've got a Pomera dm30, and gosh, I wish more electronic devices were made to be useful objects rather than exploitative honeypots...
_GreyWolf@xgranade
No need for microdots because the small offsets and imperfections of the letters ...
No need for microdots because the small offsets and imperfections of the letters ...
Ben Rosengart@_greywolf @xgranade A student of Soviet history, I see.
highly principled invertebrate@xgranade in a word "yes" but as bad as my arthritis & neuropathy are & as they continue to progress... & With the fact that typewriters aren't exactly "cheap", I'm largely going to wait it out until I've gotten a few critical home repairs done & then see if I can't manage to save up & buy one in another year or so.
沙弥香@xgranade con: you have to use a typewriter
Mike Spooner@xgranade LOL@wysiwyg
Leon@xgranade zero latency? not with any manual typewriter i've ever used. the things are positively ponderous.
Karel Brits 🔻@xgranade analog is the future.
arclight@xgranade * Still prints in black if red part if ribbon has run dry
Ben Brunzel
Peter VL ⛔@xgranade
And it's a music instrument too!
Compose your own unique music with the same benefits mentioned above. 😁
The Typewriter Leroy Anderson Martin Breinschmid with Strauß Festival Orchestra Vienna
eribosot@xgranade George R.R. Martin writes his books in WordStar 4.0 on an old PC, offline, running DOS only so he doesn't get distracted.
Aegir@xgranade That’s a very pretty typewriter!
IncoggCons:
* stuck keys that you get if you type too fast
* correcting mistakes requires white-out liquid that needs to dry before you can re-type at the same spot, and makes you high if you smell too much of (might be a pro for some)
* ink ribbons that are expensive and you end up with black fingers every time you replace them
* the noise
Iris Nieborg@xgranade You sure about that? Couldn't you get the text from the used ink ribbon?
il fabbroIf you wanna feel the touch of a PC keyboard on a typewriter, then you need to try an Olivetti "Lettera 22". Super lightweight and portable, but above all with an amazing speedy, quite and soft touch on keys. Oh, and a beatiful design too
rosalyn 
@xgranade I am this close to getting an old Panasonic word processor, one of those ones that's the size of an oscilloscope & has its own built-in impact printer
Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout@gardencourt @xgranade unironically delightful writing experience (unless you need {} often)
super fast, too, more responsive than an actual computer lol
easier printing experience too TBH
it knows Futura so im happy
@xgranade Soviet Union: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/ "yes... ... precisely."
SapphicSelene 
@xgranade I use FocusWriter on my computer almost exclusively for the typewriter sounds lol
Lance, Enjoying Copious Pollen@sapphicselene @xgranade I love FocusWriter. I have it set to amber text on a plain black background - just like the monitor I used back in college!
Somehow I missed the typewriter sounds in the settings until now.
Rastal@xgranade And no printer required 🎉
LP still can't spell Ainmhícon@xgranade (I mean, the arm flying up adds a little bit of laten---uh, right:)
* Gorgeous high-fidelity monospace font
* Understand why it's called a "SHIFT" key anyway
David Delony@xgranade Typewriters are still popular in parts of the world where electricity is unreliable.
MOVED TO POLYMATHS (Krafter)@xgranade YESSS I LOVE TYPEWRITERS!! 
chreke@xgranade Intuitive cut-and-paste!
Jerome@xgranade I need to type diacritical signs in several different languages. (é ä ç ñ ß, etc.)
cheetah_spottycat@xgranade But no undo key! And cut&paste require literal cutting and pasting.
ByMatthewPorter@xgranade By far my favorite way to write. I’ve got three of these bad boys and only one of them has a power cord.
PiTau@xgranade This might be a shitpost but for people wanting to contact their representatives via physical mail it might be a good idea. Especially if they have such bad calligraphy as mine or worse. Typewriter makes text clear while retaining someone bothered to write this vibe.
Rhizomatic Arcade@xgranade on the one hand, works during a power outage. On the other hand, selectrix
Sir Al@xgranade Plus Wite Out will get you high AF.
Trojan Duck@xgranade Still have my dad's Smith-Corona Silent Super
Ross of Ottawa@xgranade Give someone five minutes, and they'll be buying up all the used ribbons, and scanning the text into a LLM for training.
trying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼
Roger@xgranade No subscription except for your regular delivery of ribbons. But worth it! Really endears you to your neighbours too.
Lynn McAlister UE 
@xgranade This is why I carry a day planner instead of using a mobile phone to keep track of things. New technology is not always an improvement.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@xgranade In the before times when people didn't have computers, I had a nice typewriter and frankly I was a bit prideful about it. 😄