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@milan
Speaking of life spans of mobile devices, recently I ran into a problem with my Galaxy Tab 2. (yes, the tablet that was released in 2012) I don't know how long Samsung supported it, but eventually it was time to install Lineage OS, and that's exactly what I did. However, even Lineage stopped supporting this model this year. So I guess 6 years of using the same table is too much??? I wonder why is that. Currently, I'm looking into installing Replicant on it. The tablet is just fine for watching videos and readign pdf-books. I have no reason to get rid of it yet.

@freemo Looks like a Lamy Safari or something quite similar. I have one of those and also the stub nibs and have done a fair bit of calligraphy with them. However, I haven't tried a music nib, but you have. How would you compare them? Is the ink flow equal? Does one feel scratchier than the other?

@freemo it's wide enough to give you plenty of line variation, so I would say it's good enough for italic, foundational and uncial. The edge of the line is probably about as crisp as with a stub nib, which is acceptable. Writing with an actual calligraphy pen is really scratchy and IMO it doesn't really add all that much to the resulting line structure.

@freemo I remember the feeling I got the first time I started practicing calligraphy. It was simply amazing. However, that effect wears off rather quickly and now it takes a lot for me to impress myself. I started with a pilot parallel pen (3,8 mm) and moved on from there.

I've noticed that switching between a wide and a narrow calligraphy nib changes everything. My italic is acceptable in all sizes, but textura quadrata and fraktur just don't work if the nib is narrower than 1,9 mm. Therefore, I would recommend trying wider nibs too. You'll be amazed.

@freemo Sounds like a very dry nib then. SBRE Brown made a good video on fixing that. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig5cTFv4lXo#menu

Making anything cheap usually involved cutting some corners, like quality control. Most likely that's exactly what happened with this cheap knock off pen too, so you might want to try making out wet.

@freemo
Interesting. It would seen that the ink just doesn't flow very well in the cheaper one. I would expect it to start skipping too, if you write quickly. You could test that by just drawing some lines with both pens at the same velocity.

@River Oh, you mean stuff like this:https://soundcloud.com/nihil1986/sets/industrial-noise
Yeah, it's called nosie. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_music

@matt As long as you don't have to use a modern web browser, you're fine with even less. However, web is such an essential part of modern computing that even writing stuff or doing your calculations on LibreOffice Calc gets a bit tricky after a while if you don't have a browser open somewhere. And using Lynx or Dillo as a substitute will only work on a handful of websites these days. Midori used to be able to handle most sites, so it might be an acceptable low-ram substitute. I'ts been a while since I've tried that one though.

@salixlucida @Privacy I still have my #jolla. It was fantastic until the speaker failed. That's the only reason for switching to Lineage OS.

@matt Debian is one of my long time favorites. Currently, I have two Fedora computers, but I have been thinking of switching one these back to Debian. Would be nice to know what's going on in both distributions.

@matt That's a fine reason to do some distrohopping. You could take a deep dive into the world of troubleshooting, but then you wouldn't find out what Manjaro has to offer. Eventually though, once you've been hopping around enough, it's about time to do some troubleshooting too and find out what it takes to stay with the distro you like the most.

@matt I remember when I was going through the back catalogue of Hello Internet. It took a pretty long time, but after that I still wanted more and didn't know where to go. Eventually I found Cortex and the cycle repeated.

@alexdobrenko
Also new here. Let's see what mastodon can do.

I think VR and competent AI are the kind of things you might include in that category.