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# Why I stopped using a laptop
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/videos/film-11-why-i-stopped-using-a-laptop/
- Published: 2026-06-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T19:44:48.000Z
- Description: Six years of subtracting things from a workspace, and the one thing I put back.
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #video

“Hjalfi processes words on his new word processor” by [Poking Technology](https://www.youtube.com/@hjalfi?ref=quiet.labs.enova.studio) on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQprySL82Y&ref=quiet.labs.enova.studio), licensed under [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/?ref=quiet.labs.enova.studio).

Video: “Hjalfi processes words on his new word processor” by [Poking Technology](https://www.youtube.com/@hjalfi?ref=quiet.labs.enova.studio) on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQprySL82Y&ref=quiet.labs.enova.studio), licensed under [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/?ref=quiet.labs.enova.studio).

Not a manifesto. I moved the writing off a laptop for two years, and this is a plain account of what improved, what got worse, and what I quietly reversed.

## What is in it

1. 00:40 The problem, which was not the machine.
2. 02:30 Two years of writing longhand first.
3. 05:15 What got measurably worse.
4. 07:40 The compromise I actually use now.

## Made with

- A Vimeo upload, for the people who ask
- One 50mm lens
- Daylight only

I am typing this on a laptop, which is either hypocrisy or the point.