Text first, offline first.

A wire connector, hanging on a pole,
contracts as the temperature drops
disconnecting a section
of internet subscribers

As I don't have internet
I reflect on the principle
of offline and text first

Turning on my main desktop
or my laptop
I am dropped into 
a text only console. 

Maybe I only need
text mode today?

I can do my email in mutt
I can listen to music in mocp
I can write vim 
and read too

I now can also experiment
with ORCA 
a text/console based sequencer 
a programing interface

Could I also create music 
in text mode only?

All that can be done offline too
as my email tool works well offline.

Going online I can then
send and receive mail 
ssh to sdf
browse and post to gopher 
what I've written previously

I even have a tool 
to fetch the gopher holes
I read frequently 
So I can simply hop online
for a few minutes. 

Chat and interact 
with the community
Still all in text mode

I can listen to anonradio
while chatting 
with the djs on com

I could probably 
broadcast my show 
in text mode
I'm yet to discover
how to do this

syncthing works in the 
background so I can keep 
all my files in sync
My local web server
accessible trough ssh

It feels like in a
text and offline paradigm
I waste a lot less time
on my computer. 

When a task is done 
I move on with my life
I write, I draw, I paint
I play music
I stop expecting my computer
to fulfill all my desires
I stop this endless quest
to be distracted 
from my own life

The computer 
is simply a tool
the internet 
a way to connect
to the outside
Only that, nothing more

There is something 
really peaceful 
about living 
text and offline first