- cross-posted to:
- gemini@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- gemini@lemmy.ml
This article is also readable with the superior internet protocol, Gemini: gemini://sava.rocks/blog/the-canon-typestar-10-II-electronic-and-thermal-typewriter/
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I’m actually upvoting this more for the gemini protocol than for the content itself! And the content is great to begin with!
I would have liked to publish directly the Gemini article, but Lemmy doesn’t recognize the Gemini URIs (yet).
Nice :)
I use my TypeStar because my spouse and I live in small apartment and it’s so much quieter to use than my mechanical typewriter while she is still asleep (if anyone wants to read more I wrote a short post about it).
What I’m not a fan of is the small memory buffer. Since I’m a fast typist I need to really slow down while it is printing the completed line, waiting for it to start the new one, as I have often saturated this buffer, losing a few words in the process. At least, that’s what it looked to me. But, being slow is not a bad thing ;)
PS: I would love to try Gemini too but, as a non-geek user, after reading the official doc I realized I was not even sure I understood how to install it on my server. For the time being at least, it looks I will stick with good old (static) HTML ;)
Thanks for your post! I didn’t know the existence of these thermal printers before I found this Gemlog article, and yours confirm that’s it’s an interesting discovery.
And you’re right, they look cheap… on LeBonCoin I found a few for less than 20€, I’m tempted to buy one. I’d like to have a typewriter with me for my work meetings, but they’re to noisy, maybe a thermal one could do the trick?
For Gemini, I, a non-Geek nerd, succeeded to install agate a few years ago (but my server broke later, so I don’t use it anymore). I believe you can too. The main problem would be to convert your HTML to GMI, but you could also device just to add the new articles without converting the older ones.
Thx, I will check your link.
And you’re right, they look cheap… on LeBonCoin I found a few for less than 20€, I’m tempted to buy one.
Are you in France too?
I’d like to have a typewriter with me for my work meetings, but they’re to noisy, maybe a thermal one could do the trick?
They’re relatively quiet but not silent. Plus, you need to carry paper be it sheet of A4 paper (but then you would need cassettes of ink and if I’ve got three I would not buy any more as they’re way overpriced when you can find any) or rolls of fax papers which is cheap but kinda cumbersome. I had to devise my own roll older and way to afix it to the machine so I could keep the machine ‘portable’ (barely, just enough to move from one place to the other)… One day I will share pictures of it. Also, they’re kinda heavy when loaded with batteries. And the power adapter itself is not light either. So you know.
They portable, but not like a portable mechanical typewriter would be, or a laptop. I would prefer to use my Lettera but it’s too noisy when I want to type at 4 or 5 AM, while my spouse is sleeping in our bedroom. Note that most of the time I will write longhand that early in the morning but still sometimes I need to type stuff ;)
I’m in France too, yes :-).
So, not a solution for me. I think I’ll go an other way, buy a cheap notebook and a new battery, and install a headless Debian, that way it would become some kind of digital typewriter. But even a cheap notebook, if I have to buy a new battery, is more than I was willing to pay for that.
Not sure what is a headless Debian but for my very occasional need for a laptop I do use a secondhand HP Elitebook-something (one of their ‘pro’ line), whose components are very easy to service, including the battery. It runs the latest version of Mint flawlessly (previously, Debian) and it’s cheap.
I’m in France too, yes :-).
I wonder if there are more of us?
If so, we should petition to rename the community “machinesàécrire@lemmy.bistro”, and require all members to own a Japy typewriter (and probably to wear a béret too) :P
Headless means without graphics, without any desktop environement. You can just use the command line interface, limiting a lot the possible usages. It’s not a one-usage-tool like a typewriter, you still can browse the Internet (but only plain text, with web browsers like w3m or links, others for Gemini or Gopher) or even play games. Developers and adminsys can in fact do a lot of things with that, but as I’m bad, I can’t do far more than to write. And it’s what I’m looking for.
I wonder if there are more of us?
There are one or two French typewriter users on Mastodon, we’re not alone! We could publish actually useful articles as “comment enlever les miettes de pains de sa machine à écrire” or “dix façon d’utiliser le vin comme encre pour son ruban de machine à écrire”.
Headless means without graphics, without any desktop environement. You can just use the command line interface, limiting a lot the possible usages.
So it would be like a large and portable shell terminal? Interesting idea. I quiet like my LibreOffice Writer to edit my texts but I’m also perfectly fine using a text editor to prepare my blog posts… I would be very much interested learning more about you plan to use it :)
There are one or two French typewriter users on Mastodon, we’re not alone!
Considering the incredibly large crowds populating Lemmy, I would even say it looks like there is a literal army of us Frenchies as that would make no less than four of us! More than enough to take over this English typewriter community and make it the place for the machines à écrire instead. Remember the ‘Liberty Fries’, guys! It’s our time to shine ;)
“dix façon d’utiliser le vin comme encre pour son ruban de machine à écrire”.
Why? I mean, don’t they use wine as ink over there?
To this great list of suggestions, allow me to add: ‘comment transporter sa machine à écrire dans son béret, et garder le papier soigneusement roulé dans la baguette’, our encore ‘comment atténuer le clac-clac de la machine à écrire avec du fromage’ et, bien entendu, ‘L’art de rouler une pelle tout en tapant le prochain grand roman sur sa machine à écrire’.
So it would be like a large and portable shell terminal?
Exactly. It should be easier on the battery, almost distractionless, silent unlike a typewriter and I wouldn’t look like a weirdo at first glance. It would be connected to the internet, with the advantages the internet has, without all the well-known troubles.
I’m a plain text lover. I use almost only Markdown if the text I write is destined to stay on my computer, and groff+mom if I need a printable and/or sharable PDF. So even in my normal laptop, I mainly use a text editor, using LibreOffice (or Microsoft Word when I can’t avoid that, but it’s fortunately rare) only when I work with someone else. And if I need to convert a text in an other format, i use pandoc. All this tools, except for LibreOffice, work within the CLI, so using a headless laptop when I’m outside my house wouldn’t be a hard change for me.
It’s our time to shine ;)
Mais qu’est-ce qu’on attend ?
