Nice, I’ve got the OG PinePhone. It had some circuit board issues, but I loved helping at the ground floor. Is the PPPro good enough to daily drive yet?
I also keep a USB, but with my Keepass database so that it’s an offline carry. I keep 2 copies additional to that, 1 in my fire safe, and 1 in my mothers fire safe.
If you don’t mind living without a camera, yes. I think I might be able to get the camera working, but it hasn’t been a priority, because I never used my phone’s camera that much even before I switched to the PPPro.
you know it wasn’t till I enrolled in a physics degree that I met another human using a fountain pen. My first year prof.
Why are we so fucking weird? It’s obviously superior not having to exert normal force on the page to write (fuck you ball points) but why isn’t that more widespread.
because we have to fill or change cartridges, buy or make ink, clean the nibs, carry our pens carefully… too much effort just to write
ballpoints are efficient, sturdy and effortless. There are situations when we have to write/mark quickly while standing or outside under the weather
it’s not a question of “superiority” but practicality. when i’m writing or drawing on my desk i use a fountain pen. outside i carry a small zebra ballpoint
you have to do that to ballpoints to. Unless you use them disposably which there are disposable fountain pens too if you are a paper plates sort of person.
Felt tips share most of the advantages of ballpoints and fountain pens so are a defensible choice. They tend to work upside down too which fountain pens and ballpoints don’t. Although pencils, soapstone, or pressurised paint markers are better in those applications generally.
Ah yeah the felt is actually my preference for writing, because they never jam . . . (unless you leave the lid off like an idiot lol). But they’re not refillable and the tips aren’t replaceable. Usually. I have seen refillable felt tip markers. It’s definitely something I would be willing to try.
Yeah I had one ages back but you did need to replace the wicking material and tip periodically, filling also involved slowly infusing with a syringe and drawing needle.
In the end it was about as much hassle as a solid fountain pen and I couldn’t use archivists ink so I went back.
Well, I can comment on water damage. My printer ink is totally immune, and so is the Platinum carbon black. I don’t trust the black in felt tips, but the printer ink would be fine. Probably. My printer ink has a curious property of being perfectly water soluble until absorbed by certain materials including paper and fabric, after which it becomes pretty darned permanent.
UV damage, well, if my ink dyes are the same as in the UV faded inkjet printouts I see taped to the windows of abandoned storefronts, then that will be a problem if I decided to put the pages of my notebook on display in direct sunlight. I’ve never done that or have been compelled to do it, but never say never, I guess.
That’s a good question, though. Have you lost data to sunbeams before, or is this more of a hypothetical?
Yeah I’m in Australia and I left my lab notebook by a window over a holiday break. It was probably getting over 50 C daily and the ink all faded. I don’t think it was UV, as multiple pages were damaged, I think the ink wasn’t hugely temperature stable.
It wasn’t like magically gone, but faded enough that my chicken scratch was hard to read. Between that and water damage at various points I figured I’d just switch before something got fucked up beyond salvaging. Besides, you never know what’ll be interesting to future generations. Whether it’s a grandkid paging through something to get a sense of who you were or some researcher going through archives. Archivists ink is non acidic, so it doesn’t destroy paper over time. Idk whether printer ink is.
Wow, that’s awesome! I mean yeah I’m sorry to hear your ink faded in the heat, but at least some good came out of it: that’s a whole new mode of failure I didn’t know about. Hey, maybe I’ll try putting a test page in the oven’s warming drawer or something.
Yeah might be worth a test. I assume most modern pigments are probably pretty stable, this was 10 years ago using ink that was 40 years old even then. At a certain point we all just develop idiosyncratic neuroses as a result of experiences :)
30 water : 1 platinum carbon black : 5 yellow : 5 magenta is the mix for octarine.
But seriously, 30 water : 1 platinum carbon black : 10 printer ink is a good starting point for mixing. That is about how sensitive the mix is to each type of ink. Pure printer ink won’t ruin the pen, but it bleeds like a motherfucker. If you don’t care about the next five pieces of paper, though, you can do some pretty cool stuff with it.
Yeah, I was looking for a good CMYK fountain pen ink set. Nobody seems to make such a set. I could get a lot of half-solutions that would kind of work, but nothing beats the colour space coverage of a complement of CMY inks that were specifically designed to cover the whole colour space. They’re also about 10 times cheaper than fountain pen ink.
(And I got my printer ink for free on top of that from a print shop that just discontinued sales of their manual printer ink refills. The shop was Prink in Oulu, Finland. They probably still have these free refills.)
About six drops of ink and water the rest of the way gives you an entire cartridge of ink. This stuff is super concentrated.
I would use printer ink for the K too, but that’s too much of a crapshoot. Too often, the K is pigment-based, and that is likely to ruin a fountain pen. And it’s easy enough to find a good neutral black fountain pen ink. That is what the Platinum carbon black is for. It’s actually even more concentrated. Just one drop of it divided between two refills makes about a 50:50 grey that I can further modify with the printer ink. For less grey I have to go all the way down to one drop every four refills.
There’s minerals and other things in tap water. These things will cause issues and damage.
Though, the Lamy Safari is a cheap enough pen to not worry about buying a new one after causing damage.
However, there are other considerations for not using printer ink. Printer ink is designed to be used on specific paper, while fountain pen ink is designed to be more versatile.
The colors for fountain pen ink are also more than the base color. There’s the shading which can be a different color from the base The sheen, which can make the ink shine a different color in different lighting. It’s designed to flow properly through the feed with an appropriate level of viscosity. There are a lot of factors and testing that goes into fountain pen ink. You can read more about it here: www.jetpens.com/blog/…/968
Hm. Thanks for the link. This could help me with my ink mixes. Oh, one thing that annoys me: I wish I had pure CMY dyes without surfactant in them, so that I could change the surfactant level and not make the ink so god damned bloody. But I have no fucking clue where I could find CMY dyes without the surfactant.
This is just pure chaos. Why would you use printer ink in a fountain pen? I cannot fathom any valid reason besides just wanting to do something batshit insane.
Printer ink is useful because each of the C, M, and Y inks is a perfect filter of exactly one colour. C filters red, M filters green, and Y filters blue. Commercial fountain pen inks almost never have this kind of absorptive specificity. They’re usually a mix of two or more dyes—a mix that you don’t control. Once a dye is in the mix, you can’t just take it out. The best you could do is dim all of the other colours, but then you lose saturation.
Here’s a specific example. Suppose you have a commercial ink of 5C:1M and you want pure C. You’re stuck with that 1M. The best you can do is add 1Y to make 5C:1M:1Y = 4C:1K. You’ve got a balanced C, but that extra 1K is going to make everything look a little grey. Ew. And that is assuming you can even get pure Y in the first place. No ink manufacturer in their right mind would try to sell a pure Y on purpose. It is very difficult to read. (Except under a pure blue light. It’s super awesome actually. This has been an underhanded privacy-invading tactic of the government for some time now. Yellow microdots are printed on all commercial inkjet printouts.)
These inks have also been designed to be mutually equally absorptive of their respective light wavelengths, so an equal ratio of 1C:1Y makes a perfectly balanced green. These inks has also been designed to stay in solution even when mixed. There are no chemical reactions that could cause precipitate to form, thus totally fucking the pen. Achieving this with commercial fountain pen inks would be difficult, and potentially dangerous.
However.
That’s actually not the reason why I started using printer ink. I was in Oulu, I had just run out of fountain pen ink, and all I could find was a print shop. Here is the whole story of my Oulu trip.I did a little research online before actually doing it. Other people have done it before. You just have to make sure to use dye-based ink and not pigment-based ink. I was able to confirm from Timi that it was dye-based. And prepare for the possibility of having accidentally turned your pen into an ink firehose because printer ink bleeds like three motherfuckers. It needs at least three parts water to calm it down.
I get the theory of wanting to use CMY inks. I just think it’s weird and a lot of extra work for such a narrow goal. There’s not really any wrong way to use your pens however you want, provided you’re aware of the risks and know that you may be spending more time than it’s really worth.
Chętnie poznałabym pytanie wyjściowe. Na grafice jest napisane, że przedstawia ona procent użytkowników, którzy wskazują czytanie wiadomości jako główny powód siedzenia na social media. To trochę zmienia optykę. Jeśli pytanie było w stylu “po co ci social media?” i były różne opcje do wyboru, to być może że ta opcja po prostu dominuje w Polsce. Dajmy na to w Korei Południowej użytkownicy wolą używać SM do rozmów, albo na przykład do konsumowania treści rozrywkowych, a w Polsce czy w Grecji traktują je jako źródło informacji. Trzeba też wziąć pod uwagę to, jakiego rodzaju informacji ci ludzie szukają, czy są to wiadomości o wydarzeniach w kraju i na świecie, czy może jako “wiadomości” ci ludzie traktują informacje o tym, gdzie dorwać fajny mebel za darmo na lokalnej “śmieciarce”. Trzeba by to porównać z udziałem innych opcji i pogłębić, spytać np. jakiego rodzaju wiadomości ludzie poszukują na SM. Bez tego to takie mocno czątkowe, wyrwane z kontekstu wyniki.
Można zaryzykować smutny wniosek, ze w takiej sytuacji „obrażając się” i odpuszczając media społecznościowe głównego nurtu, robimy błąd i oddajemy pole rożnej maści szurom, libkom, partyjniakom, prawakom itd.
Hardly surprising tbh! Here’s the store page for it, it’s a skill toy that you sling around your fingers. aroundsquare is the company that makes these, zircuti is the materials (zirconium and titanium), sigma is the model / bead name, begleri is the skill toy type :)
Były badania na “republikanach” w USA; to nie jest tak, że oni nie wiedzą, albo wierzą, że jest tak jak mówią partyjni liderzy. Oni świadomie akceptują i powielają ich kłamstwa, idąc za realnym, nie deklarowanym wprost przekazem partii.
Zaskoczył mnie wynik opcji “nie słyszałem o tej sprawie” wśród wyborców PiS, bo reżim chciał temat zakopać. A potem zdębiałem widząc wynik u konfederosji.
Teraz tak, ale pierwsze 2 dni było zakrzykiwaniem każdej wzmianki o tym. Sondaże mają z reguły kilka dni poślizgu więc spodziewałbym się chociaż mniejszej świadomości niż wyborcy partii opozycyjnych. Z drugiej strony mówi to o tym jak dobre jest PiS w pompowanie przekazu swojemu betonowi.
Nie mogą zamieść pod dywan sprawy na której oparli (pierwotnie) cały pomysł z referendum. Może jakby to wypłynęło przez ogłoszeniem referendum to ktoś z mafii(PiS) poszdłby po rozum do głowy że to ich może zatopić. Ale jak już machina ruszyła to mogą tylko robić różne akrobacje, szukać kozła ofiarnego itp ale nie mogą tak po prostu wyciszyć tematu migracji w swoich mediach
Wyborcy konfederacji to w dużej mierze bardzo młodzi mężczyźni, których przekonuje, że mentzen taki fajny bo pije piwo i chce żeby więcej zarabiali, nic innego o polityce nie wiedzą, nie szukają informacji i ich nie czytają, nawet gdy im wchodzą w oczy. Wyborcy PIS wiedzę czerpią z TVP, a tam o tej aferze nie ma nic/nic rzetelnego. Przerażające, że PISu nie jest w stanie pogrążyć nawet afera wprost obnażająca, jak jest zakłamany nawet w kwestii “obrony przed migrantami”, którą prezentuje jako jeden z kluczowych punktów programu… I do tego ten Błaszczak, chujki się nie cofną przed niczym byle tylko wygrać.
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