On Paragraphs
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I've noticed that every once in a 
while, I come across a gemini user who 
doesn't seem to organize their writing 
into paragraphs. So I click on a 
gemlog entry and get assaulted by the 
proverbial 16:9 wall of text, 
stretching from one end of the screen 
to the other. This happens on gopher 
as well, but at least the lines tend 
to be 72 columns or less.

In any case, that's where I stop 
reading. It doesn't matter who the 
gemlog (or phlog) belongs to. I just 
can't do it and I doubt I'm alone in 
that reaction.

If the writer doesn't take the time to 
organize the material into 
comprehensible sections, I'm not going 
to try to wade through it. It's 
mentally painful to look at and 
difficult to maintain your position as 
you read.

So use paragraphs people. They were 
invented for a reason!

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I've been following Solene[1] and 
sparcipx's[2] adventures in old 
computing. Many of the issues that 
Solene raised are reminders that the 
good old days of computing weren't 
always so good!

For me, affordable high-quality 
screens have been the nicest 
improvement over time. A matte IPS 
makes me much happier than my old TN 
panel with its narrow viewing angles. 
The top of the screen could be 
viewable while the bottom was out of 
plane and "shadow-bluing" out. I don't 
miss that at all.

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We got gigabit internet service the 
other day. I'm so disappointed. 
Smolnet performance hasn't improved at 
all.

[1] gopher://dataswamp.org/1/~solene

[2] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/sparcipx/occ