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Ugh, no thanks. I already use enough arcane tools on a daily basis due to my work. For mundane stuff like reading and sending mail, I'd rather take a break and
by TurboHaskal 9y ago
Ugh, no thanks.
I already use enough arcane tools on a daily basis due to my work. For mundane stuff like reading and sending mail, I'd rather take a break and use tools that even my tech illiterate father could effectively use.
It's really detoxicating to become a normie from time to time.
Disclaimer: Used to read mail with emacs back in the day. Tried mutt for a while.
- icebraining 9y agoDoing like the "normies" is switching from a decent red wine to piss beer. Not what I would call detoxicating.
- sotojuan 9y agoThis kind of attitude is not helpful. Sometimes even tech people want things that work "good enough" with no configuration or thinking involved. No need to go full normie.
- icebraining 9y agoI'm not trying to be helpful. But I find this worry about having to configure CLI tools to be overstated. Just because they allow you to configure everything doesn't mean you have to. My personal email setup is: "sudo apt install alpine", configure account info, done. You don't even have to memorize the action keys, Alpine shows the available actions for the current screen at the bottom, with helpful labels. It's arguably clearer than Gmail, with its unlabeled icons.
- catdog 9y agoSadly thats not the norm. A lot of those (otherwise great) text tools ship with horrible defaults and suffer from poor discoverability. Sometimes it's both combined and somebody actually contributed such an improvement but nobody bothered to turn it on.