shstalwart

Interesting. Pretty sure __I__ would crash with that many tabs open.

I run firefox on linux on two computers. Works great, no tweaking/building required.

There will always be a trinket to keep you on the plantation.

And then there are all of us, so enamored by tech, that we promote the destruction of serendipity in the stacks every step of the way because serendipity isn't searchable. Or something.

For me, it's only partially a technical problem. If I need to really study something, I always print it out or buy the book. Honestly, I don't really understand why, but I'd guess that my comprehension and patience are at least double when reading a hardcopy.

Another advantage for me of physical books (etc) is that you have something like "tactile memory." What I mean by this is that very often, I can find where something was mentioned basically by how the book feels when its opened (e.g., how thick the pages are in each hand). A similar thing happens with shelves of books.

This is pretty hard to replicate with better tech.

This happened to my grandmother a few years ago, with somebody claiming to be me. Purportedly, I had broken my arm in Spain, and needed money for surgery. Fortunately, she had the good sense to call my parents and find out if I was actually in Spain.

Going on two years with fastmail, I get zero spam. I'd say its good enough.

Agreed. Writing with AUCTex plus helm-bibtex is like a dream. I like org-mode but I find it a too limiting for actually writing papers in.

An alternative point of says they are platform which is censored.

> I believe you cannot simply run Linux any laptop. You have to buy a laptop specifically for Linux.

No you don't. Ive had debian on a lenovo laptop for five years with none of the issues you speak of. Printing and scanning work great (dell and brother printers). It boots fine after a hard power off. No update has ever fubard anything. I have no more trouble hooking up to a projector than anybody else (my boss has a mac and complains about hooking up to projectors).

I've also run linux without issue on prior laptops from toshiba, acer and sony and some off brand thing from 10 years ago. I have a brother who runs linux on a dell laptop just fine (and has for years). A co-worker runs linux on a newish sony laptop. I guess I'm just living in the perfect intersection of hardware that just magically always works with linux. Or maybe, linux just works.

It's really not that hard. I'd used gmail since early 2000s and it took me one long afternoon a couple years ago to switch basically everything to fastmail. Probably helped that everything I cared about was already a record in keepass though.

I really like Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. It's all conceptual (i.e., proofs), and doesn't focus on computation at all.

Not really. Normal people have basically no interest Himalayan salt.

Not everybody believes ethics is a set of rules set forth by some committee.