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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • When I bought my iPad Pro I imagined I’d have this thing filled with gigabytes of handwritten text but that’s not the case at all. It’s not even the feeling of pen and paper that makes not want to use the iPad… it’s the immediate access to write and read what I want, that only a notebook and pen can provide. The iPad is filled with other apps and distractions, it heats up when you rest your palm on it, there’s always this anxiousness of balancing brightness and battery life.

    Also, with handwritten messages you can convey so much more that it’s impossible to do with typed text. You can determine how fast or how methodical the person was while writing. You can convey emotions by how much strength you use or by the size and kerning of the letters, and also, a lot of the personality traits of the writer are mirrored on their calligraphy.

    And yes, typing with a keyboard is so much faster, which enables me to ramble, which I often do I and I just did.





  • Ah yes, that’s what I was trying to go for.

    I messed around and it happens that in order to see that, you need to go to Kbin’s quick settings and turn on the “auto media preview” option. The issue is that 1) every user needs to enable the option manually, and 2) it makes separate thumbnails on the feed, so personally, I turned it back off.