voidtreckernet | video | poi one, afternoon

( Jingyi's wandering holding the ereader and frowning down at it, which means: he's approaching Idia again down the centre of the aisle, still frowning. )

There! You're doing the thing again, but what is the thing, what are you trying to say...

( he stops to tap at the ereader screen, reacting beats late to Idia's arrival, where his head finally jerks up. )

Hey! Good, you're here. This thing's been making an odd thing? Box, message? It comes up once I'm about here.

( holding out the ereader, Idia will be able to figure out it's the ereader attempting to wirelessly connect to a printer, but the settings have not been adjusted to make that easier, and it is instead attempting to connect using a security setting utterly unnecessary... on this train. which is then causing an error.

please, help?! )

[Now that's a level of frustration about technology Idia can understand. Even with all his understanding in it, sometimes things still just happen and go wrong, and when it kept happening it was easy to lose your cool about it. A 0 or 1 in the wrong place could cause everything to come to a stop.

As Jingyi approaches him with the tablet, he looks over to see what he can only assume is an error box popping up.] Ah, I see. It's like... [How to explain it... hmm.] It's like... if you were expecting a message that needed a password to receive it, and the password does not match. [That makes sense, right? Or close enough.

Idia reaches out to take the ereader, poking away at it.] I'll adjust the settings so you won't have to worry about it having issues interacting with the printer again. [Unless there was a patch. Was that even possible here? An ability to update the technology? Idia's not sure, he hasn't noticed anyone talking about it yet, and he guesses unless someone actively did update either the ereader or the printer it would not be needed. Which in itself could be an issue in future if it happened... Though if Idia is given a suitable computer to work on, he could certainly program something to work with the devices.]

Ah, so like having the wrong token for an entry gate.

( passwords are more things he's learned here, such as it is, but that does make sense to him. also, Idia working on the ereader has one hovering Jingyi, who is unapologetic for the fact he's hovering to learn and watch what the guy's doing to make this thing function. )

You can teach it what to do once and not have it forget? The printer isn't going to mess that up at some point, will it?

( probably not, but he assumes all technology will have issues, because even lower level technology has issues periodically in his experience. )

"Yeah, like that." Idia mumbles back, not to dismiss the comparison, just because he's working. Though not working enough to not jump at just how much Jingyi got into his personal space, it having taken a moment to register he was so close to him, and it instantly putting Idia into panic mode.

"N-n-no, ah, I-I mean, it should be fine now. Unless someone changes the printer or ereader." Wait hold on. "Um... it's like... if there's a guard change on the gate...?" Does that work? He thinks so! It would make sense in one of the manga he read! Oh, though, "Well, printers always are problems, no matter what." Ha ha, technology joke... that Jingyi won't get... oh well. "Let me know if it plays up again." Idia sighs out at the end before handing back the ereader.

It's at least cementing the idea that Idia either doesn't appreciate hovering, or more likely, doesn't appreciate invasion of his personal space. Jingyi's tail swooshes low around his ankles, coming close to thwapping against Idia's leg, but averting back rather than making any contact.

"My clan doesn't believe in random acts of violence," he says, which probably comes off as a nonsequitur, accepting the ereader back. "In case you were worried."

That being in similar space meant anyone might be thinking of forcibly staying there, or whatever it is. He takes a pointed step back, eyes returning to the ereader. "Thanks, hopefully any changing of the guard will hold off for a while." Not that he had the same thing, but he's familiar enough with situations that do have guards to run with the metaphor being delivered.

"Now what image do you tap so the printing happens?"

...what?

"I... hadn't... even considered that?" But now he is! Why were there so many dangerous people on this train?!

"It's unlikely, I think. Or... I donno, someone may decide to update this all." A shake of his head and a mutter. "Don't know why want to print out stuff in the first place... unless going to make patterns and nets for stuff, I guess." It would just be easier to make it up with a 3D printer. Unless it was fabric, he guesses. "A scanner would be better." That way they could digitize the library books onto digital formats.

"Oh, yeah." Leaning in just enough to see the screen, Idia points a finger towards it. "That one, it's supposed to look like a printer." Motioning to the printer to compare them.

"Scrolls, paper, books," he says, pressing the print icon after having assured himself he's announced his nonviolent tendencies adequately, "Don't require anything but themselves to be read."

Meanwhile everything digital required some other means to be accessed, though he doesn't think having them in multiple formats is useless. More is better, right?

Right!

"Yeah, but you can only read what's on the paper, not have access to numerous writings." Idia would rather the accessibility to much rather than the easier ability to find what you want immediately. He guesses he can understand some form of enjoyment on having the physical item rather than just a digital format. Like collecting merch. Pretty covers and limited edition copies.

Signed copies.

Then a sigh, and Idia's extreme introvert side showing itself. "And you have to go and get the item, not just have it ready to go in your hand."

"Yes. We call those places libraries," he says, though his smile isn't mean spirited after, just closer to a smirk than anything else. "I'm not calling what you like dumb or anything, but I think we're both right, and there should be more than one form of any important document."

Though he thinks most of this is in... "Do you just not like having to deal with people, or is the concept of things taking time and effort just weird? Feels like people from all these worlds with technology of certain kinds expect things to happen quickly, always."

There's a part of Idia that wants to shoot back that Jingyi was dumb... but the other part is more than used to having his interests dismissed by 'normies', and really... it's not what Jingyi is doing here, he guesses... but he can't help but snark back a little on that library comment. "And with technology I can search every book in a digital library to find the one thing I want out of all of them rather than having to go book by book." Which as a student was always a pain. This book, this section. That book, that section. Ugh. Just let him cross reference them all at once via a search system.

Though... Idia voicing his earlier thoughts. "I guess I can see the appeal of having books on display... and enjoying something more retro." Like playing retro games despite their systems being old and a lack of more modern implementations that were now common game mechanics.

...don't ask him if he doesn't like dealing with people... by being a person he has to deal with! Seriously. Some people were just so blunt. "There's no point wasting time on connections." Ok, so Idia can be very blunt too. "But in this case I like being able to find what I want when I want it, not wasting time searching for it. I could be using that same time to do other things. If I want to take the time to enjoy things, then I can do that then, but not when I have a goal I need to get done." Efficiency was important.

For him, who has a different library system with it's own catalogue concept, the searchability ease does sound nice. Just matters what's said, he guesses, and with his clan he's not sure how the forbidden library might be done, but it would, where the majority of the sect wouldn't reach. Or maybe it wouldn't, so people would either have to spend or waste time looking for answers?

He shakes his head, brief, to shake away the thoughts.

The comment on connections earns it's own raised brows.

"It's a waste of time connecting with anyone? Are you saying you don't have generation mates, friends, rivals, enemies, family, mentors, elders? And you can't be bothered to connect yourself with even one other person?"

Could he call anyone at his school friends...? Maybe Azul? Then again, Azul would sell him out in a second if something he deemed valuable was offered. But that wasn't the issue with this all, it wasn't the chance of being stabbed in the back or anything like that, since Idia was the same. You did what you had to get ahead.

It was a rather different matter... and not one he's going to talk about. However Idia does actually have an answer to that question. "One person, yes, but he's not here..." Ortho was different. He was always supposed to be by Idia's side, no matter what... but he wasn't. Not on the train.

"Sure, but that means you agree. Bonds are worthwhile. It's not a quantity thing, it's a quality one."

In what point did they come to talking about friendship? More or less down whatever broken meandering came from how does printing work, but to Jingyi, whose best friend is here as a younger man and who feels very strongly for the people he bonds closely with, it's reality.

Bonds are important. Often enough, the ones you make, aside from the social ones that are part of everyone's reality in his world, the ones you make are all that will carry you forward in life. Family, for better or worse, isn't always immediate, or present, or alive.

...he doesn't care enough to argue against that. Sure, whatever, if Jingyi wants to use that to win this, then sure, Idia responding rather flatly. "Fine. One connection is fine." A little pedantic, but whatever.

Actually, you know what, fine, then tell him this, "If you knew everyone you made connections with would suddenly forget about you one day, would you even bother?" There's some attitude behind that, telling that while Idia gave Jingyi that first point, he doesn't like how it was done. "What's the point?"

"So what, your situation back home is like the one we're in here?"

Where at some point, they'd all be forgotten, or forget everyone else. He can't pretend to be unaware of how that goes, not when he's seen Inigo process it, not when he's watched people he knows, has come to know, go, and finds more who come and have no idea who he is within the context of being dragon souled.

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