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I generally agree with your points (and love TDE) but > I don't use autosave either. I don't want the computer to assume when I want to save a file. The comput

I generally agree with your points (and love TDE) but > I don't use autosave either. I don't want the computer to assume when I want to save a file. The computer is too stupid to know that. That’s why, with auto save systems, you flag/name a version as your canonical save point. Rather like a video game, I’d rather have the autosaves and not need them, because I generally save the game myself, than not have them at all. A computer can be helpful and obedient at the same time, when it’s done correctly and puts the user in control.

pdonis 1y ago
> with auto save systems, you flag/name a version as your canonical save point. You mean each saved version is stored separately, like a version control system? A system like that would be fine (in fact I use version control all the time for this kind of thing). But that's often not how auto save is implemented; the auto save just clobbers the last version you saved. That's the kind I don't use.
- zapzupnz 1y ago
  I’ve never used an autosave system for general software like that, overwriting the file but keeping no history, before. Which one behaves like that?
  - pdonis 1y ago
    How long have you been using computers? Once upon a time, all autosave systems worked like that. That's why they were rarely used.
    - zapzupnz 1y ago
      > How long have you been using computers? Since the 1990s, and I've never used an autosave system that worked that way.