Y'know when you're doing this big multi-step DIY project that involves doing many things and getting parts and tools and materials and you're holding all this stuff in your head and you notice how much of a big noisy scrungly mess it is up there, all the thoughts and worries and tasks overlapping each other like spaghetti all going in different directions, and you grumble "This is ridiculous, a guy can't get anything done with all that yammering going on," so you start up the computer and the text editor and write out what's going on up there, not because you don't know what's going on but just because thoughts go wibblywoobly like gummy worms and writing goes left to right in a straight line and to turn your oh-I-need-to-do-this-and-that thinkings into a ah-I-need-to-do-this-THEN-that shaped Plan you need to untangle the spaghetti and make it go in the long straight writing-shaped hole

Do you ever think of that like brushing your brain

Like oh no my brain's all tangled I've gotta spend a few minutes giving it a nice brush and make it purr

Cruel tbh that the text editor, the program for untangling your spaghetti, lives in the same machine as the web browser for flopping more spaghetti into your skullbowl

@ifixcoinops

I remember thinking this project was a little silly, but you seem to make a good case for this project.

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So folks have been installing and using my Tinker WriterDeck OS - my operating system that's just a word processor and nothing else. Which blows my mind. It's always weird for people that you haven't met to use things that you throw out into the void. So I'm working on some updates for version 1.1. I'm learning to move bash and linux configurations from the userspace into the global space. Think that will make installation much easier. Also working with some new linux installers that should make it easier to configure keyboards on installation as well as identifying battery percentage (right now battery lookup is hard coded, but that doesn't fit every laptop model obviously). Going to preinstall as many text editors and terminal word processors as I can and allow the user to change those out a bit easier. At some point in the future, I'll make a Graphical Edition but right now I'm focusing on this Terminal Edition. All in all, I really think I can do this. The first version works well enough. This next version should be much more "universal". Actively moving away from "it works on my box, trollolol". https://tinker.sh #tinkerWriterDeckOS #WriterDeck

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