Using a 17 years-old computer in 2024 — is it a productivity hack, or a nerd fetish? Here I share my experience of daily-driving a ThinkPad X61s from 2007 and explain how it prevents brainrot.
Very impressing Constantine! specially for me, a fan of asceticism. Soon you're qualified to be working beside Pope in Rome :)
However, I think for me, sticking to your flowkeeper app would do good for me to multimedia detox and a Kindle for reading in bed, like I did for your article, while sleeping good without the dangers of explosion beside my pillow :D. And then I skip all those delays during a development task etc.
But I'm all with you that technology is like medicine. It should not be used without a precise investigation about the necessity. Just wanted to present my alternative.
I also occasionally use jfbview to read PDFs in the terminal, as well as mpv for watching videos. Since KDE is not running, it saves a tiny bit of battery life.
Very impressing Constantine! specially for me, a fan of asceticism. Soon you're qualified to be working beside Pope in Rome :)
However, I think for me, sticking to your flowkeeper app would do good for me to multimedia detox and a Kindle for reading in bed, like I did for your article, while sleeping good without the dangers of explosion beside my pillow :D. And then I skip all those delays during a development task etc.
But I'm all with you that technology is like medicine. It should not be used without a precise investigation about the necessity. Just wanted to present my alternative.
Hi!
What app were you using to read that famous Burning Chrome story on the screenshot? :)
I believe it was just an HTML file in this specific case. I wish I could write that I used Chrome for it, but no, I’m a Firefox user :)
…and a big fan of Gibson, too!
Thanks!
BTW, for the similar purpose on my old ThinkPad, I use w3m, a terminal web browser :)
I also occasionally use jfbview to read PDFs in the terminal, as well as mpv for watching videos. Since KDE is not running, it saves a tiny bit of battery life.