What is that? Can it run Doom?

 It's a writer's deck!It looks cool!! it has linux! then what?

that's what I felt about owning microjournal rev.2

A very cool looking machines, works really well as free distraction writing tool because I was too afraid to do more with that.  The other users always mentioned how great it is to have linux on micro journal but I didn't understand how to use its potential. I would like to tinker it but what to tinker?

That question haunted me for a long time until someone on reddit mentioned we can change the color of the text.  Coincidentally my favorite color is pink so there were some extra steps required to get that pink text which involved my new friend, Gemini AI.  Some background story, I am an animator and also a teacher, I have love hate relationship with artificial inteligence, but this time I have to admit that Gemini AI did help me finding the answer to my question.  So please repeat the question again: wow, it has linux on it?  can it run Doom?

And my official (and totally scripted answer) would be: "No, it may not run Doom but it can read your fortune, tell you what to cook, and answer a yes-no question, and probably many more!"

Thanks to the journey to get the pink themed micro journal, I learned about shell script.  The default micro journal already have some shell script file to make new text document, to shut down, to share files etc. Shell script  is a file with a series of codes or commands that make the machine give you answer or respond adjusted to the condition you are giving.

once again, I am an animator, I know about script! All the character's act, situation, interaction and the sequences are all decided by the script.  In that sense, the shell script has a lot of familiarities with animation script.  The language is a little bit different, so with the help of Gemini AI, it translate my script to the shell script.  

All that I need to do is to 

1. copy the script, save it to filename.sh file, upload it to the micro journal

You can put the file on the document, but I put mine on /home/microjournal/

why.. so when I open the file on terminal I don't have to write the long directory address.

2. activate it by writing "chmod +x  ~/filename.sh" on terminal

3. open the .sh file by pressing enter, or type the   "~/filename.sh" on terminal

It would be an extra long post if I share everything in one post so I will divide the post to another posts where you can copy the shell script to your micro journal. You can access them by clicking the title.

Here are some fun stuff I made with the shell script:

1.  Launcher

Don't you miss having a wallpaper?

Flamingo Wallpaper!!!  Something like that

2. Dice

Because why not?

3.  Ask Guru Joe

Now it can answer a yes no question, don't ask complicated question.

Ask Guru Joe

4. Fortune Teller

Who doesn't like reading horoscope?

My Dog as Fortune Teller

5. Cooking Mama

There is a decision that I made almost daily but never gets easier: what to eat?

Now, a shell script can help you that.  Or ask AI, but what the fun of it?

I have some other fun things to do with Gemini and Micro Journal, I will share it here too if it works.  It's not really the narrative script I need to write for my personal project or that Academic Journal I have to write for my job, but shell script is also script and it is fun to explore what it can do.