A video I made about "do less" tech products that should have been software for obsoleted hardware (www.youtube.com)

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vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbw1GlyzNu4

audio only/podcast version: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/6d394145/do-less-products

I talk about an idea I've been throwing around for a while for a "typewriter OS" which boots an old laptop into text editor (as a starting project to hopefully lead to a [insert single purpose] OS)

It's a difficult thing to pitch because it's very easy to say "that's just X running Y" type of answers. But it's something I see as a ground up build by design.

Anyway, sharing to see if it piques anyone's interest

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[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

thanks! I'm glad it sparked this response

and every step of the way, I can customize what I’m doing to fit my own needs.

Is a key thing here, hey. It's also important to be able to pull things in as you need them and be aware of how those things put a load on your computer. So then it's important to be able to take them out 100% as well.

I know this is kind of how stuff works but it's the kinda that is the thing for me. One of the design goals of my project is that 100% of what is running is 100% of what is needed at that time

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