Thanks
I am a member!
Retired and with far fewer years ahead than behind, I’ve reached the realization that computers are not a good use of my time. I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful advice and interesting discussions over the years. Keep fighting the good fight and take care, libredrs
I'm sorry to hear that you've decided to step back from using computers. It's important to prioritize our time and energy in the ways that feel meaningful to us. I hope that you continue to find fulfillment and joy in whatever pursuits you choose.
Yeah, all electronic gadgets and all gas powered gadgets totally suck and are huge time wasters. It's extremely rare for anything to last 10 years, and 20 years is next to impossible. That means that within any of our lifetimes there's a massive collection of multiple generations of junked gadgets and vehicles planet-wide. The hope and promise of our technology future has turned into nothing but a toxic planetary trash heap.
And when we try to squeeze 10, 15, or 20 years of life out of a laptop, almost the entirety of the technology press and even the GNU/Linux press mocks us for not using the latest iphone or the latest backdoored processor.
I should become Amish.
By the Way, my washing machine is a bit more then 30 year old now (as far as I remember, but that's close if not accurate) and only had a problem a few months ago (a problem that shows up from time to time), but I guess the next one won't eve last 10 years.
I have been trying so hard to squeeze 20 years of my life into a laptop that I now feel stuck inside. Good to read that at least one of us has managed to escape.
I would like to thank *you* for your contributions over the years, as a Trisquel member and as a forum member. I believe computing should be done in freedom, but I also believe that sharing and giving time to contribute to public goods, and caring about others in general is going to be crucial in the critical times ahead. Possibly not enough, but certainly decisive. Thank you, and take care.
I think the major contribution of libredrs has been to bring the gospel message of Spinal Tap to our forum threads. It was the gospel message as proclaimed by St. Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear. It was the gospel message that was proclaimed on the day the Lord created Spinal Tap, choosing not to rest.
libredrs wrote messages in D minor, which is the saddest of all keys, making people weep instantly when they read them. libredrs's messages were louder than anyone elses - because libredrs could crank them all the way up to eleven, whereas the rest of us were stuck at ten.
libredrs brought us computer knowledge from ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, from an ancient race of people - the Druids. libredrs gave us the mystical knowledge from Stonehenge, where the demons dwell, where the banshees live and they do live well. Where a man's a man and the children dance to the Pipes of Pan. Where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face, and the virgins lie, and the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky. Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow. And we are all wiser for it.
Oh yes, that too.
> Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
This is controversial material, though. In the canonical sources, the dew drops meow and the cats cry.
Perfect, I just had to change one word:
I am happy to hear that you've decided to step back from using computers. It's important to prioritize our time and energy in the ways that feel meaningful to us. I hope that you continue to find fulfillment and joy in whatever pursuits you choose.
If only I could stop using technologies…
Andy Prough, I doubt Amish would accept you as you are, but of course you should be Amish, we all should.
And thanks for the summary of libredrs' contribution, this looks like excellent contributions.
But this is only a statement that D minor is the saddest of scales: in what A standard? The actual 440 Hz, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart 422 Hz or one of the dozens and dozens of others? And in what (musical) temperament? “Pythagorean”, whatever “well temperament” or lukewarm “equal temperament”? Of course, those two rhetorical question have the purpose to prove that this affirmation is perfectly unscientific.
Besides, the druidic affirmations might be inaccurate because we don't know much about that age and lots of statement about it is pure extrapolation that we inherited from the previous sanctuaries' unhistorical misconceptions, but who knows, maybe what he told was perfectly accurate.