I created a little blog entry to link your Amiga to the internet via a Serial link and RPi. Not quick but functional. Just a little something worth sharing.
I don’t really understand what your job is about …
Oh it’s a bit of everything. I code in the blue window, then take notes in the white one, watch the presentation on the small screen, then open the terminal to very serious server admin.
Well the Worbench 1.3 color nostalgia lasted enough on my vertical terminal. I kept the #Amiga border for good measure but reverted to a more modern color & font (EnvyCodeR).
Everything I’ve done recently getting my #Amiga 600 up and running would have been impossible without web searching (and finding!) answers to long forgotten problems.
If this knowledge was produced now, it would unfortunately end up in a convo on a Discord server somewhere and would be impossible to search (and find…)
Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.
@CerebralHawks ? While you're technically not wrong in some ways, if it's a smaller or more focused community, similar can occur even on Discord. E.g. if there's one primary community for a subject, you could essentially get shut out if one person/group running it takes a dislike to you.
At the same time, the benefit of Discord you mention with there being many communities can also exist with many forums, & arguably even better given independent servers altogether.
@didier Speaking of open web, if you're not into the forum model, consider blogging/personal sites!
It's good to work through your thoughts and it builds your own personal store of info if you use it as such. Plus you can entirely set aside any of the social elements if you like, making it a nice little creative reprieve away from others for when you need it.
https://neocities.org/ is a good platform for this sort of thing for any interested but wary of getting into the weeds of hosting.