!GPD Win 1 review --- agk's diary 5 April 2022 @ 03:40 UTC --- written on GPD Win 1 at kitchen table after driving home from the city where I got a respectable B on a Med-Surg exam --- Should I write about Cassie's bad reinfection with COVID, Grandpa's stroke, or my motorcycle's bad front fork seals? Nope! I'll write about using a five-year-old Win10 laptop the size of a smartphone as my main computer. OS: Windows 10 Home ver.1803 (end of life) Resolution: 5.5" 1280x720 16:9 CPU: Intel Atom x7-Z8750 @ 1.6GHz Memory: 1808MiB / 3410MiB Everyday use ------------ Most of what I do in school is login to Canvas LMS to watch Yuja Media videos of lectures. I take notes with a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen. On the tiny laptop I use Seamonkey browser to look at the www. I wish Seamonkey had an adblocker. I look at busy webpages with frogfind.com to approximate ad-free "reader view," and youtube with a piped or invidious proxy. Ctrl-l puts the cursor in the URL bar, Ctrl-t opens a new tab, Ctrl-w closes a tab, Shift-Ctrl-t re- opens a closed tab, Backsp goes back in browsing history, Ctrl-Tab cycles through tabs, F5 reloads, + zooms in, - zooms out, Ctrl-q quits. Seamonkey's email client connects me to an account on my domain, managed by migadu. Seamonkey's IRC client connects me to my Russian friends. Seamonkey has USENET and RSS clients! The tiny laptop needs Windows to drive its shoulder buttons (which function as mouse buttons) and joy- sticks (which function as mouse and scroll wheel). Shortcuts make Windows easier to use: Win-r runs a program by name, Win-d shows the desktop, Win-x invokes the "expert" menu, Win-x u u shuts down, Alt-Tab switches between running programs, Shift- Insert pastes highlighted text---useful in puTTY or anywhere Ctrl-x/Ctrl-c/Ctrl-v isn't available to cut and paste. I wish I knew how to make new win- dows open maximized. I login to SDF with puTTY, Alt-Enter to fullscreen, multiplex with tmux. This is where I write with nano, read gopher (with sdf's gopher), chat a with com, email with mutt, browse www with lynx, write and use use shell scripts, etc. In tmux, Ctrl-b " splits the window into superior and inferior panes, Ctrl-b % splits it into side- by-side panes. Ctrl-b arrow key cycles the cursor between panes. Other applications I use on the little guy ------------------------------------------ Mupdf's my favorite pdf/epub viewer. h displays a file full height, w full width, [ and ] rotate, 230g goes to page 230. Scroll up and down with arrow keys or Space/b. + zooms in, - zooms out. q quits. I use LibreOffice to submit papers written in nano as APA-formatted .docx files and turn class power- points into pdfs. Lagrange is a great gopher/gemini browser. Muscle- memory shortcuts from Seamonkey/most www browsers work, except Backsp. History navigation is with Alt-arrow keys. DeepL's desktop application translates text from anywhere: highlight; Ctrl-c c pulls text into DeepL and translates. Seamonkey and Lagrange have translation built in, but DeepL's quicker. I occasionally use other applications: zim (a personal wiki notebook) to write, VLC to stream internet radio, synctrayzor to transfer files, qbittorrent and youtube-dlg to download stuff. In closing ---------- It's not very useful away from wifi. I might some day add more autonomy with ploum@rawtext.club's offpunk, kayvr@tilde.team's rover, or a modified ew0k@tilde.team's "not always online" script. No hurry, though. I use a Pinebook Pro for some classwork, and Zoom teleconference with an iPad. For everything else, palmtop computing's real nice.