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Is there an alternative to the desktop interface beyond CLI?
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Brendan Howell's The Screenless Office is "a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. It is an artistic operating system."
You can "read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input".
That's funny you share this, a friend just sent it to me yesterday.
Similar to this: https://github.com/alibahmanyar/breaklist
This is an interesting way to receive data but I wish there was a way to do the reserve. Take handwritten/handled input into a computer. I asked this question the other day if I could somehow input my handwritten notes into programs like Trilium (or logseq whatever) and memos. OCR/HCR seems to far behind still so I am unsure. That would certainly be a cool method!
Relatedly, there was a company was selling a cloud(🤡)-based product called "Little Printer" from 2012 to 2014; after their backend predictably shut down, some fans of it recreated it as https://tinyprinter.club/ and later https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/
I've heard the reMarkable e-ink tablet's cloud service has good-enough-to-be-usable handwriting recognition, but sadly I haven't heard of anything free/libre and/or offline that is.
This is super cute. Thanks for sharing!
I've eyed those for some time but I do prefer FOSS or at least only connected to my own server... That is a cool suggestion!