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Daft little thing off my mind now.

A short bit of writing on how to use computers, rather than be used by them.

bugmuseum.tech/use-your-tools.…

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in reply to серафими многоꙮчитїи

Also, enjoying using SourceHut pages for doing this. Just a little build script using #Emacs in script mode and it does the right thing with links (link to an org-mode file becomes a link to the exported HTML)
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That was nice! And short!

I’d like to see echoes with Windows/iPad/?? examples, just to help people. (Not the person to write them tho)

@djm62

in reply to серафими многоꙮчитїи

@серафими многоꙮчитїи the last point is so important. I have a deep memory of getting my second ever computer in Highschool (my used Pentium3 had just died and my parents bought me a new one), and I got it set up and I was excited and my sister dismissively said "it's not new, all the windows look the same as your old one". I had this moment of "that's what I spent the last hour getting into place though!"
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@silverwizard poorly-configured tools are like ill-fitting clothes. You look silly and it's not comfortable (but everyone's version of looking good and feeling comfortable is different)