[GTALUG] 2 weeks on cell phone and chromebook... never again!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 03:51:25PM +0200, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Sheesh, sometimes in this list feel like I'm in a retirement home sitting
> around a circle of people complaining about Elvis and self-serve elevators.
> 
> "Real men don't use HTML email"?.... pfffft. Get over it.

I use mutt on one account for mailing lists.  I do not deal with html
content on that account.  I use a gmail account for doing email with
friends and websites/companies and such.  I would not expect that to
not use html and gmail handles that just fine.

> These days email makes up but a fraction of my digital communications, and
> most of that is either mailing lists, or Outlook/Exchange from work because
> that's how they work .... Skype, Hangouts, SMS, and social media posts
> enable immediate response and don't need aggressive spam filters. Not every
> communications calls for the same tool.
> 
> As for typing, give me a break. I can enter text on a screen without taking
> my finger off the glass, (using the free Swiftkey kb) at least as fast as I
> could ever do on a real keyboard (which was, honestly,  never too fast to
> start with). The innovations here are coming from mobile, not the end of an
> RS-232 cable.

I do remember a professor pointing out that the Mac GUI didn't make
things easier, it just made things harder for those people that could
use a CLI so they were at an equal level.

> The only times where I really like a full keyboard and pointer is for
> typing long documents, and creating things that require greater pointing
> precision than the tip of my finger (which, in my case, mean a Cherry Brown
> keyboard and trackball instead of mouse). But such creative work takes but
> a fraction of my total time interfacing with computing devices.
> 
> And as for "ooh, that's a CONSUMER device"....  expressed in any field,
> such an attitude does little but reveal elitist snobbery in the speaker. A
> Samsung phone in the hands of a good photographer will produce more
> desirable results than a dork with a Hasselblad.

Yes a good tool does not make up for a bad user.

But an expert can't make up for a bad tool either.

-- 
Len Sorensen