Today my accomplishments are:

1] refreshing my basic command knowledge with beginner tutorials. I am cool with the cds and the mkdirs. I got all the chmods.

2] used ssh to get into the pi from the laptop, bypassing the flakey bluetooth keyboard and much confusion of 2 mice, 2 keyboards. Big thumbs up.

3] successfully set up a shared folder on the pi. I don't know how I did this. The last step of the tutorial I was following completely failed. I monkeyed around and found an option that appears to work, so win?

The more I read about gemini and the push for a smaller, efficient, minimalist internet, the more I am convinced it is here to stay. The majority of the public won't get it, won't like it, but for the minority it could be sanity saving. It will be so interesting to see how it develops. I am thinking about how (if?) to maintain boundaries between what I would post on the WWW and what would be better on the small internet. Part of what I don't like about the WWW is how fragmented my identities have become as a defensive strategy. Gone are the days when just one identity is enough. I keep my business username/"brand"(hate that word) separate from everything else because I don't want clients learning personal stuff and getting weird. But that also fragments my expression and art output. And I'm going through a recalibration where I'm having internal fits about my own self-censoring, especially where art is concerned. The unfortunate side effect of draining away the anonymity of the WWW is leaving people at the mercy of the tiny minority of spiteful doxxing lulu weirdos. I think some other gemlogs talked about this. I'm mulling over where the balance might be for me. How do I use this space vs the WWW, keep it a positive use of resources, and define the difference between what goes where and how interlinked (if at all) it should be.

As a text environment, gemini isn't a great fit for a portfolio site of analog art. If one is to respect the intention of this protocol, loading it up with fat jpegs isn't the way. I thought it might be fun to go hard into ascii art as an alternative. I mean, shit, ascii art tattoos could be rad as hell. Absolutely crazy-making for the tattoo artist (thinking of the end of the tattoo where the stencil is just a faint purple shadow is nightmare fuel), but rad as hell if done well. It could be worked into a trash polka style. Trash polka is amazing.

This is a different space and it can't be used the same old way. Visual elements must evolve to match. Ascii art, pixel art, vector art, defined by points and arcs? Will be interesting to see.