That’s exactly the point - focus more on content and less on word count. But also, this tends to be more personal than about writing fiction.

I’m going to be posting a lengthy article about journaling that I am writing currently, along with the setup notes for TrackBear in the FediWriMo community later today, or possibly tomorrow.

And 72pt? Why so tiny? Go for 120pt or 240pt - you could type the word “and” and have three pages. 🤣 But all kidding aside, in the original post for this event I suggested for those using something like Obsidian or Notion (or any other non-paginating editor) they should probably use 300-350 words-per-page as a guideline.

Posted. :) Thanks.

Good idea… I’ve only been posting to communities that I have been able to reach out to mods first…I will check with them.

Yes, I noticed that with all the papers here – there is quite the rabbit hole to explore.

Thanks! I glanced over this article - looks very detailed, and quite interesting.

This is an excellent list of articles. Thank you very much!

It indeed appears the rabbit hole is deep on this topic…

I haven’t used sar in over 10 years. I used to use it to monitor resource usage of jobs that I was running while I was at work. Now that I look back, I was using isag (no longer maintained) to generate reports for me.

I would think it should be possible to package ksar in an appimage or docker container - but I don’t know if one exists.

But - there is a newer option:

sadf -g your_datafile [ – sar_options ] > output.svg

This is part of the sysstat package - no need to install anything else, and no java. sadf allows you to make graphs that you can view in your browser. Check the man file for sadf for more information. (Can’t comment any further on this since I haven’t used it.)

Forgot to mention, there are ways to build reports from the sar output - which would give you a chance to filter the logs.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/identifying-linux-bottlenecks-sar-graphs-with-ksar.html

Ahh - yes - I haven’t looked at this for a long time – the sysstat and ksar packages.

Sar is the old school way to keep a rolling log of used resources:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/4/html/introduction_to_system_administration/s3-resource-tools-sar-sar

https://www.networkworld.com/article/969982/checking-linux-system-performance-with-sar.html

So: update… After all of this, I got 4 new sets of converters: one set of Hongdian, one set from Schmidt, and 2 “generic” chinese sets.

And, I will say, one of the two sets of generic converters does actually fit better than the original converters that shipped with the M2’s. However, all, except the replacement Hongdian converters, were too long. (TBH - I knew the Schmidts weren’t going to work - I only ordered them to have on hand for a couple of other pens that I know have Schmidt feeds / nibs, and will take them).

In the end - the replacement Hongdian converters fit much better than the converters that came with the M2’s, and don’t have the issue of the piston bumping the feed tube. These are so good that I only get about a .5mm air bubble instead of the 2-3mm air bubble I was seeing before.

Although, I wish one of the others could be used. I think one of the generic sets is actually better designed / manufacture than the Hongdian converters. Oh well.

Now I just have a big pile of converters that I can’t use at the moment. 😆

Unfortunately, the converters were probably chosen just for the dimensions and aren’t actually made by Hongdian.

Oh, no… These are Hongdian converters, they came installed with the pens and are Hongdian branded…

a) is what I did initially - but found the weak fit annoying as it results in less than half-full converters. :)

b) is what I did to get a mostly full converter for now.

c) I didn’t find any indication of a bad assembly…and I don’t think it is mis-assembled. I bought some extras (after starting this topic) and tried taking one apart… It appears even the new ones have the same issue, and disassembling one doesn’t look like they were assembled incorrectly. IMO - I think this is a case of Hongdian designed a generic converter and didn’t account for different tolerances in the M2’s design.

I’m on option d) I’ve ordered a bunch of other converters to see if a different one will fit better. I mostly ordered generic Chines converters, but some of them look better constructed (like having an extra ring on the portion that fits over the feed tube). We’ll see what happens with them.

I was thinking about options (e) and (f)… (e) would be to just use cartridges (either dropper filled, or pre-loaded), and (f) would be trying to use them without a cartridge or converter as a dropper pen. I don’t know that the o-ring would be good enough for option f - and I don’t know if I want to find out the hard way…😂

I’ve heard of something being of “slop quality”, but “quality slop” is truly a rare substance in this stretch of the woods. 😁

Ahh, I missed the concept that you were simulating the experience of using a typewriter.

How far are you planning to take the concept? Are you going to make people manually set up margins, tab stops, headers, footers, etc?

What about some of the other distraction free editors, like [FocusWriter}(https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/) and Ghost Writer

Your project looks very interesting. I would like to understand how it differs from the other “distraction free” applications that are out there. (Granted, you are saying “minimal” instead of “distraction free”.)

I’m going to add this to the description in the Community I created… I’m definitely agnostic when it comes to what people are using to track their writing.

There is a detailed timeline of the scandals on the NaNoWriMo2 website.

I’ve created a NaNoWriMo2 Community for all to join: !nanowrimo2@feddit.online

I’ve also set up a TrackBear Leader Board for anyone that’s interested in joining: https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=48e75747-5a26-42da-865c-9626c490db2f

All the details are in the description for the community.

Yeah - it looks like they want to keep things fairly minimal…nothing too heavy about the whole thing. Personally, I didn’t really interact in the community under the original site. I was there mostly, for posting the word count which my friends could see – and they were all people I knew IRL so we didn’t need the forum.

So, yeah, no AI, no extra technology or anything. I was just looking at TrackBear (https://trackbear.app/) to see if I want to use it. Looks like it might be nice.

I was just thinking the same thing… It’s been years (like over 10) since I did a novel writing month. Horrible that the old group imploded the way it did.

But, there appears to be a new website for Novel Writing month (https://nanowrimo2.com/) – just no forums or anything, which is probably for the best.

Yeah, Mojang’s conservative development style is arguably the reason for Minecraft’s success, while also being a source of frustration and friction for the community, IMO.

MS is another story altogether, though. While Mojang is a very thoughtful company, MS is driven by profit. I’m honestly surprised there aren’t more collisions between the two cultures.