I will journal out, usually on my laptop. Sometimes I find it convenient to dictate to my phone
I've seen quite a few people using that voice to text thing on their phone. I would not trust it, but that's just me being paranoid ;)
I’m left handed and if I want to journal on the go, paper has never been something I find I can write on well.
Have you tried with a spiral notebook and/or turning the notebook upside down so the spiral are on the opposite side?
Sounds oddly like me, including the balcony ;)
I felt the need to journal and of course didn’t have my trusty typewriter with me.
May I ask what model?
So I gladly accepted it as an excuse to go to the stationery store and browse the journal options.
I would never do such a thing. Never 8)
I realized that I didn’t really care if people on public transit next to me were reading what I was writing.
Neither do I (my handwriting is too poor) but I worry about corporation 'mining' whatever I trust them with.
Le souci c'est que tout est déjà câblé (et aucun câble ne passe par l'écran) ;)
I'm a 50+ dude, married for 25+years and I have no idea who this Andrew Tate is nor who young men identify to nowadays (I wanted to be Michel Strogoff and an astronaut and Maria Callas too, as a little boy) but I would say that it was enough for me to read some of the comments (way too many of them) in this discussion to get a pretty good glimpse of what may be causing such a split. At least partly.
Could it be that young men and teens are growing tired of being told they're a threat (to women, when it's not to the whole society) or, when they're not a threat that they still are a nuisance, just because they have a dick and because that dick may sometimes grow bigger and harder when they feel attracted to another person?
My childhood was what today's press would call 'traumatizing' (and not just once, mind you) but at the very least I did not grew up afraid of my dick getting hard because I was attracted to someone. And I was never too afraid to ask that person if they felt the same interest and if they would be willing in exploring it further together (more often than not, I was being told 'no').
For the rest, one simply needs to add a lot of partisanship, militant certainties and self-proclaimed righteousness with hordes of so-called experts and journalists that have no clue what their job is supposed to be about (hint: it's not about making the buzz and not about collecting page views, or Likes) and then, on top of that, add a handful of smart-ass people (some real assholes too) that want to profit from all that stupidity that is raging-on everywhere, in every 'camp'.
It's easy to tell people, boys and girls alike, what they want to hear and nothing but what they want to hear. That they're right, that they're great and that the other group is just assholes that hate them. And to profit out of that.
It's so easy that I'm seriously starting to wonder if the next generation or maybe the one after them will still be able and willing to make love or even just to enjoy some intimate good time together, and to make babies by themselves? Maybe I should invest a few cents in whatever startup will undoubtedly show-up and try to profit from that situation. Pretty sure I would make a fortune...
Sad times, indeed. I will go make some coffee and pour a cup for both my spouse and I.
Edit 1h later: you're welcome to downvote till the end of times if that helps you feel any 'righter' in your opinions, or if it helps you think you're punishing me (really?) but may I remind you that without any explanation no amount of downvote will help me understand any better why you disagree with what I wrote. Also, I won't be able to read or contribute any further to this very interesting exchange we've had so far as I'll leave for a long walk to and back from a tiny bookshop that is set nearby the Seine. A real nice shop and a real nice and long walk which means that, taking into account the fact I will probably spend some time there chatting with the lady owner (there are much are closer bookshops to our place, like a lot closer, but I really like how she works and how she really cares to help customers find the right book for them and not just try to shove them whatever the latest trendy book is and be done with them. So, I shop at her place). Considering all of that, I shouldn't be back before at least 3 hours. PS: our cup of coffee was great.
I journal on my desk and everywhere I go.
My actual journal never leaves my desk (the old ones are lined up on a bookshelf not far away). So how do I journal on the go? I used to use my phone a lot, I had been using the DayOne app since it was first introduced (and I loved it) but I’ve switched back to analog full time and see little incentive for me to ever move back to digital as I want my privacy to be respected.
So, to journal on the go, like I used to do through the late 80s up to the early 00s (at which time I got my first Palm PDA which lust be the piece of tech I've liked the most), I now carry a small pocket notebook in which I quickly jot down thoughts, events, anything I want to add in my journal later on. Quickly is they key elements here as I don’t want to waste my time writing two times the same stuff so, I quickly learned to devise my very own shorthand system to take notes real quick and, in the evening that day or sometime later during the week I would be able to transfer them down into my real journal in plain Engl… French ;)
Without that shorthand system which is nothing complex (a few symbols, abbreviated words in a single letter and silly stuff like that), I’m not sure I would not use my pocket notebook as much as I do (which is all the time as I even use at home, when I'm not in front of my desk). It's really quick and it really does save me a lot of time.
So what would it actually take to get you to switch? I’m all ears.
Nothing. I switched a few years ago. On Mint, from Mac.
What prevented me of doing it for many years was my own fears—it must be difficult, it's too complex/geeky for me (hint: it was not)—and my own habits as I had been using Apple computers since the early/mid 80s. After my switch, what almost got me to switch back to Mac was all the 'moral' codes of conduct I saw popping out. I mean, what the fuck was wrong with people telling users what they could and could not do in a very similar way proprietary software with their EULA were doing!? thinking that if I had to deal with that same level of shit why not simply keep using a Mac? But then, I realized those were only a vocal minority.
I don't miss much from macOS, beside Spotlight. This was so useful and so well integrated into the system.
but this whole online discourse about age gaps
There is no age gap, you're 20 she is 17. That's 3 years.
Online trends are worthless. What's the next 'rule' they will be willing to destroy people for? Those not born the exact same day or at the same hour should not date?
Our French president, Emmanuel Macron, is married to a woman that is 30 fucking years older than him. Even worse than that, they met while she was his teacher. So, what? They have been together for a long time (for much longer than most of those perfectly non 'age-gaped' couple, btw) and I wish them to happily stay together as long as they're happy doing so.
Like mentioned, the question that should bother you is: how mature are you both? Are you both ready for anything more... let's say something more intimate.
To which, as a 50+ old fart myself (married to my 50+ year old spouse, for almost 30 years), I would also add: have you (you, the older person of the two) prepared some exit rules that won't hurt her (nor you) because, no pun intended, things can become slippery quite fast when you're that young.
How long do the prints last? I’ve heard that they fade rather quickly
As far as I can tell, it depends the quality of the thermal paper (which contains the 'ink' so to speak). The cheap rolls I got with the printer faded in less than 5 months. Heck, two months in I noticed they were already fading. The quality ones I purchased from that closing shop (alas, they're unboxed and unbranded) have not yet started to fade. They're holding quite well. So, if I had to buy rolls, I would search what are some reputable brands and try those.
That is one thing I’d like to do for my journal, but I have to figure out a method first for printing it, that doesn’t cost me an arm and a leg :-D .
I use one of those cheap Chinese thermal printer that they sell for kids, one that print on B&W rolls of receipt paper and I glue it in my journal (that said, I prefer sketching). The printer was less than 20$ and each roll is a few $ and can print a lot of pictures. I purchased a pack from a closing business I probably have enough til the end of time ;)
Many do limit online time but there is also 8 billions of us on this planet. So, no matter how strictly we limit our involvement, I think the community itself, not each individual member, should be a little more active at any given time. But like with many communities on Lemmy we lack more participants ;)
D'où mon agacement (excessif), je pense ;)