Using computers more freely and safely
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Using computers more freely and safely
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Re: Using computers more freely and safely
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It's easy to crap on something, but I'm pretty happy with this system.
I use:
Trisquel GNU/Linux
IntelliJ 2019.3
Perl, PGP, and text files
About 20 different web browsers
My own web-based information manager
And yes, I sometimes use Word 97 for writing.
And I'm pretty happy with it.
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
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It's easy to crap on something, but I'm pretty happy with this system. I use: Trisquel GNU/Linux IntelliJ 2019.3 Perl, PGP, and text files About 20 different web browsers My own web-based information manager And yes, I sometimes use Word 97 for writing. And I'm pretty happy with it.
Every single thing on your list (except the info manager and maybe more obscure web browsers) has tens of thousands into the hundreds of millions of users.
Except for the web browsers, none of the things you listed are the result of or otherwise benefited from meaningful forks.
You will never understand, much less be able to make meaningful edits in afternoon to, the entire Linux kernel. Likely much the same for Perl and PGP (150K lines of C and a highly specialized domain respectively).
You don't have the tools to edit IntelliJ or Word 97 (was that what that bullet point was about?)
Lord help you if you're updating any of those things. I better not see anything higher than 2.X in your uname -a.
You overwhelmingly don't follow this post's advice
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
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I think you missed the point.
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's easy to crap on something, but I'm pretty happy with this system. I use: Trisquel GNU/Linux IntelliJ 2019.3 Perl, PGP, and text files About 20 different web browsers My own web-based information manager And yes, I sometimes use Word 97 for writing. And I'm pretty happy with it.
Every single thing on your list (except the info manager and maybe more obscure web browsers) has tens of thousands into the hundreds of millions of users. Except for the web browsers, none of the things you listed are the result of or otherwise benefited from meaningful forks. You will never understand, much less be able to make meaningful edits in afternoon to, the entire Linux kernel. Likely much the same for Perl…
"You don't have to do all this. Their benefits are additive, but acting on even one of these suggestions is better than nothing."
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
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I think you missed the point.
I read the whole thing, they have a section called "the punchline" that restates those bullet points. If the point isn't "the punchline", and the text certainly supports that is indeed the point, I'm not sure what is.
What do you think the point is?
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
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It's easy to crap on something, but I'm pretty happy with this system. I use: Trisquel GNU/Linux IntelliJ 2019.3 Perl, PGP, and text files About 20 different web browsers My own web-based information manager And yes, I sometimes use Word 97 for writing. And I'm pretty happy with it.
I wont use prop. W97 over Trisquel.
Once you learn Groff+Mom+simple files cat'ted after.FOOBAR tags you wont go back.
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
#9This is the "just eat less" dieting advice applied to software.
I understand the desire to grow your own food and bake your own bread, as a response to the onerous, distressing complexity of the systems we live inside, but you have to accept the cost of that being more work and less connection.
Re: Using computers more freely and safely
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every single thing on your list (except the info manager and maybe more obscure web browsers) has tens of thousands into the hundreds of millions of users. Except for the web browsers, none of the things you listed are the result of or otherwise benefited from meaningful forks. You will never understand, much less be able to make meaningful edits in afternoon to, the entire Linux kernel. Likely much the same for Perl…
"You don't have to do all this. Their benefits are additive, but acting on even one of these suggestions is better than nothing."
forgotmypw17 doesn't appear to follow any of these points except incidentally (most modern web browsers are forks of one another for complexity reasons, their preferred document editor is an EOL closed-source product therefore doesn't get updates)