#Thoughts no one asked for

04/21/26

Giving Gemini a solid try

> I've kept a gopher site running on and off for two years but was a bit turned off by how particular and finnicky the server could be. Also despite the wonderful assortment of clients there are, they all seemed to handle my gopherhole in similar but different ways. Some times those differences made my area completely unnattractive.

My motivations for this capsule

>I don't think my reasons for this capsule are much different than any one else's. I'm jaded by the current state of the Internet. It gives us everything we were promised about the web but does it in the least controlled, most wasteful way possible. Some very reptillian part of my brain had always thought that the normal people would always just sit in the material reality, still doing paper and pens and talking on phones and all those unpleasant people would forever be on a different plain than I am. Overtime the separation between their garbage personalities and my thoughtspace got narrower and narrower. I'm not running to gemini because I feel like my oddly specific political identity is being marginalized or oppressed. I'm here because for me the internet always has been a domain where I can be whomever I wish and chart my course wherever I want. The pedestrian internet is increasingly hitting my psyche with the soul crushing pressure that conformity demands. I just don't want to do it.

Offline computing

> In the coming months I intent on sharing my project that I have worked on with others in my area for a few years. It's concept while on it's own isn't that unique is shaping up to be a compentent offline computing system that is more than just "not using the internet". It is being designed to provide feature in the absence of the Internet, in ways that still give you ammenities and productivity yo otherwise would be looking online for. The goal was to diverge from many products like it to make an offline experience for casual and leisure use, the others all focus on prepping. Sure the world may end but wouldn't it be nice to still have some sort of digital domain that feels a little like home?