On Wednesday 28 October 2020 10:16:24 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote:
I personally hate forums. Why? Because you HAVE to goto them, log in and in general mess around 4 or 5 minutes just to see the list, which on some forums like for the rpi's, several hundred screen fulls let alone search thru it to find something interesting, or even any reply's to your plea for help.
Email just drops in at 2 minute intervals courtesy of takeing the email suckage away from kmail with fetchmail running as a background daemon, then a wrapper script I wrote years ago that uses inotify-wait to tell kmail to go get the mail that procmail just dumped into /var/mail/ and it uses dbus to tell kmail to go get it. And a quick glance determines whether I answer, or hit the + key for the next one. So other than this typeing, my email is a 2 click operation, once to select the type of reply, and once to send it when I've rattled the current cage sufficiently. Computers should DO work FOR you, not make work. Way too many think jumping thru all those hoops in how it works, to me the challenge is to just make it work FOR you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Yeah, don't get me wrong. Without computers, I could never have collected and organized so much material, and probably would never have been able to make connections between seemingly unrelated subjects. So that's a good thing, I have to concede.
On the other hand, if I had just kept all my materials in hard copy, then I would still have it somewhere; although I suppose it could have been destroyed in a fire or something. Also, I would need a warehouse in which to keep it all. It was just a strange bit of bad luck, that my hard drive and my flash drive both failed at the same time, and before I could make backups of this material (which I had saved for last, as I was redistributing this data, to keep like with like).
Anyway, it is what it is. Now I need to figure out how to move forward with my project.
Bill