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So yes if it weren’t for people wanting convenience the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” would have happened 25 years ago. What do you suggest? Everyone carry ar

So yes if it weren’t for people wanting convenience the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” would have happened 25 years ago. What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?

GaryBluto 9mo ago
> What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends? The exercise would do people good. Jokes aside though, there is a nuance between completely inconvenient and designed for the marching morons.
- raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
  You mean 80% of adults worldwide are “morons”? Have you ever thought that they may know something you don’t know?
  - GaryBluto 9mo ago
    If 80% of adults worldwide somehow became unable to tolerate the slightest inconvenience, then yes, I'd say they would be morons, but I doubt they are. I'm unsure where you're getting the 80% statistic from.
    - deleted 9mo ago
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    - raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
      I used that little convenience of my smart phone and used the internet. https://www.demandsage.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/ https://www.demandsage.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/ I am sure you are thinking I’m a “moron” because I didn’t drive to the library and use microfiche to find the information… Or maybe you would have been okay if I used Veronica and searched Gopher sites like I did pre Web in the 90s?
      - 0xedd 8mo ago
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b00ty4breakfast 9mo ago
yes, getting emails or text messages instead of having app alerts is luddism. Get real, dawg
- raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
  Uhh yes - when 90% of adults worldwide have moved to smart phones - yes you are the Luddite. Email is for old people has been a meme for two decades https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/ https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/
  - bigstrat2003 9mo ago
    Anyone who says "email is for old people" is a fool, at least on that subject.
    - raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
      Yes, because “bigstrat2003” said so. I work for a 1000+ consulting company and no one uses email for internal communications. Even for company wide messages leadership uses Slack. Heck even when we first start a project we either federate (or whatever you call it) the client’s Slack workgroup with ours or we ask to be on their Teams channel. Before working where I worked now, I worked for the 2nd largest employer in the US, even there most communication happened over Chime or Slack. On a personal level you actually email personal contacts - in 2026?
      - mimasama 9mo ago
        I email my dad documents and photos I need printed (and he uses his work office's laser printer). I forward the billing statement I receive monthly from my family's ISP to my mom via email. And I'm "Gen Z"
        raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
        And I’m 51 and far from a Luddite. I’ve moved with every technology transition since learning how to program in AppleSoft BASIC and 65C02 assembly. My 83 year old mother is less of Luddite some people commenting here. She is a retired high school math teacher - been retired for 30 years - and she has used every popular word processor/suite from the original AppleWorks for the Apple //e and she was tutoring friends kids and helping them use GSuite and PowerPoint until 5 years ago. She uses her phone for everything and she has up to date computers a couple of printers on her network and two ISPs just in case one goes out. She kept the legacy DSL account that’s not available to new subscribers and she has cable internet.

GaryBluto 9mo ago

> What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends? The exercise would do people good. Jokes aside though, there is a nuance between completely inconvenient and designed for the marching morons.

raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
You mean 80% of adults worldwide are “morons”? Have you ever thought that they may know something you don’t know?
- GaryBluto 9mo ago
  If 80% of adults worldwide somehow became unable to tolerate the slightest inconvenience, then yes, I'd say they would be morons, but I doubt they are. I'm unsure where you're getting the 80% statistic from.
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  - raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
    I used that little convenience of my smart phone and used the internet. https://www.demandsage.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/ https://www.demandsage.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/ I am sure you are thinking I’m a “moron” because I didn’t drive to the library and use microfiche to find the information… Or maybe you would have been okay if I used Veronica and searched Gopher sites like I did pre Web in the 90s?
    - 0xedd 8mo ago
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b00ty4breakfast 9mo ago

yes, getting emails or text messages instead of having app alerts is luddism. Get real, dawg

raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
Uhh yes - when 90% of adults worldwide have moved to smart phones - yes you are the Luddite. Email is for old people has been a meme for two decades https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/ https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/
- bigstrat2003 9mo ago
  Anyone who says "email is for old people" is a fool, at least on that subject.
  - raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
    Yes, because “bigstrat2003” said so. I work for a 1000+ consulting company and no one uses email for internal communications. Even for company wide messages leadership uses Slack. Heck even when we first start a project we either federate (or whatever you call it) the client’s Slack workgroup with ours or we ask to be on their Teams channel. Before working where I worked now, I worked for the 2nd largest employer in the US, even there most communication happened over Chime or Slack. On a personal level you actually email personal contacts - in 2026?
    - mimasama 9mo ago
      I email my dad documents and photos I need printed (and he uses his work office's laser printer). I forward the billing statement I receive monthly from my family's ISP to my mom via email. And I'm "Gen Z"
      - raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
        And I’m 51 and far from a Luddite. I’ve moved with every technology transition since learning how to program in AppleSoft BASIC and 65C02 assembly. My 83 year old mother is less of Luddite some people commenting here. She is a retired high school math teacher - been retired for 30 years - and she has used every popular word processor/suite from the original AppleWorks for the Apple //e and she was tutoring friends kids and helping them use GSuite and PowerPoint until 5 years ago. She uses her phone for everything and she has up to date computers a couple of printers on her network and two ISPs just in case one goes out. She kept the legacy DSL account that’s not available to new subscribers and she has cable internet.