[tde-users] Re: Appimage

On Monday 25 October 2021 09:36:05 dep wrote: If you go to all the trouble of using protonmail, etc., then why would you not follow through and use something more secure, or less inscrutable, than appimages? Whenever I'm told that I cannot look inside and inspect the source, but instead given vague promises that I can just blindly trust them not to do bad things nor to collect my data, it pretty much means that I'm gonna get screwed somehow. Even though Debian and Devuan are nearly identical, and their packages are practically interchangeable most of the time, mixing and matching them can cause problems (especially if you don't like systemd). Ubuntu is based on Debian, but packages are quite often not interchangeable. I have sometimes got one to run on the other, but Ubuntu tends to add stuff that disrespects their users in little ways, and sometimes do worse. Ubuntu has call-home triggers built into some of their packages. When I ran Ubuntu, I would watch network activity, and hardly an hour went by without dozens of outgoing traffic to Canonical. I still mostly trust Debian, but I like Devuan better for sticking to the original Debian principles. Regarding your actual problem (which is how to organize research materials for a book), might I suggest some old-school tools and tricks? https://www.communizine.com/how-to-improve-your-life-using-3x5-notecards/ https://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/index-card-hacks.html :-] Not that I actually use 3x5 cards in the same way; but the principle remains the same. I use plain text files for much the same purpose, or I scan graphics or collect other digital files. Then I organize materials into proto-chapters; but really they are just whatever seems to fit under a heading, lumped together as I collect them, slowly taking shape over years. I put my bibliographical information, notes or other references right there with the quoted passage. Then I dump the plain text into an office document. Another thing about research: it's good to have hard copies of essential materials; but also to have digital copies of printed matter. Bill