A day outside the usual routine

After Zifang came over and let me try his Mac, I finally felt for myself how smooth it is. According to teacher Li Xiaolai, Linux and macOS are, at heart, ways of managing piles of files. In that kind of system, a mouse is not the default way to do things. After experiencing it, I could not help feeling that Windows lagged behind: in Windows, we humans become the bottleneck, clicking through things again and again. The other approach cuts out steps and can make work much faster.

I had been thinking about related things all morning. If a router can be accessed remotely, then in theory AI could operate everything it exposes. That gave me an idea: if physical machines that can be operated are essentially shells driven by text files, could I manage—and even customize—many such devices from one place? For example…

I feel as though an idea is coming back to me, but it is not quite there yet.

It opens up a lot to imagine. And now I remember how many other things I have yet to finish…