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That’s a lot of presumptions. It may be as simple as noticing that teams with a higher attrition rate are more productive on average and faithfully treating that observation as a causal link.

It may be successful in the short run, but that doesn’t make it a good long term strategy. It may be a good long term strategy but that doesn’t make it ethical.

To the thought police: notice how I engaged the parent in a thoughtful argument instead of moronically hitting the downvote button.

    if you are on mobile it doesn't matter.

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. I'm not saying that I'm ditching the Twitter website for the native Twitter app. I'm saying that I'm ditching Twitter.

I'm also not blaming the web as a technology. I'm saying that websites are becoming unusable.

    I have no idea what web you are on but perhaps you should be using better sites that aren't waded through like treacle.

We're both on Hacker News so I suspect we just have different standards.

    person Nally this article loaded in under 3s

We have different standards. Let me show you how Medium compares to a website that isn't a pile of crap.

https://onezero.medium.com/the-document-metaphor-desktop-gui... 16 requests, 257.63 KB / 67.48 KB transferred, Finish: 30.97 s, DOMContentLoaded: 2.53 s, load: 4.87 s.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html 1 request, 1 MB / 206.34 KB transferred, Finish: 1.74 s, load: 2.69 s.

Is there any JS being used in that video at all or is it all HTTP requests?

I think open standards address your issue just as effectively. You mentioned newsgroup readers and mail user agents, for example.

The web apps that I enjoy using are the ones that enable real-time collaboration. I think that's where the web app wins out over native. But the vast majority of things we do online are nothing to do with that.

I reckon I skip 80% of the links I engage with here because I'm immediately presented with a GDPR dialogue, or because the website won't load because it relies on some external domain that I've blocked.

As for iOS and macOS, I really don't think they're serious productivity platforms. I've migrated everything that matters to me to Linux, and when my iPhone finally dies, I'll move over to a Linux phone as well.

I'm not dismissing the utility of tags, and I like your idea. I'd definitely install it as an application and give it a go.

I'm really addressing the argument that tags are a revolutionary change that should replace the directory-based filesystem entirely. The cost seems too high to justify the benefit.

YouTube-dl is your friend.

As for your attempts to learn Angular, maybe Google was doing you a favour ;)

For the maths, look up Eddie Woo on YouTube

I still belong to a WhatsApp group, but I’m plotting a course out of the social media empire.

We should still have web apps where they add value - I’m writing one at the moment - but I’ve reduced my reliance on Google Suite in particular and I’m more productive as a result.

Good to know you’re out there somewhere!

> So your solution to organizing files... is more files? How would multiple files use the same "tag" under that scheme, without duplicating it everywhere?

You could put the same file in multiple directories. You could have a file in ~/vat and symlink it to ~/urgent and ~/accountant.

I was referring more to the web as a runtime for apps. YouTube is full of great content but the app on my TV is pretty rubbbish. The website’s not bad in fairness

Screenshot at the command line. Isn’t that just pipe to file? ;)

Ripgrep will compile a list of all files in your home directory in seconds. Combine it with dmenu or fzf and you’ve got yourself a pretty handy search tool

I use it as a place to put files I’m working with in the moment. Once I’m done with them, I either file them away or delete them. Although I don’t use a desktop on Linux anymore, I still use the directory for that purpose.

On Debian Stable, pretty much all updates are security updates.

They should be separate. On a well implemented system, you’d be able to apply those automatically

I think we can safely assume that the answer to that question is “no” for most of the people in this thread complaining about the desktop!

Or alternatively they do update and their critical application stops working.

echo “medium.com 127.0.0.1” >> /etc/hosts # works too :)

I hope you’re right. Personally I think that epoch peaked with jQuery. I’ve been watching the culture of web development steadily descend from what you describe to whatever it is we have now. But software history is circular, so maybe those good times are coming again.

I’ve thought about that, but for now I can manage with rsync. I’ll look at it again if I have to collaborate with non-technical people though.

So put them in the same directory and be done with it? I’m not really sure what you’re hoping for

This tagging idea resurfaces every few years. I have to confess I don’t really see where the revolutionary improvement is. Filenames are already namespaced tags and symlinks allow for multiple tags. Not quite the same thing, I know, but close enough for tagging to appear to me to be a convenient enhancement rather than something game changing.

And as you imply, when you have a lot of files that you need to organise, you tend to start compiling them into directories.

It used to be used by people who were moderately to hardly tech literate.

Not sure if that’s relevant but it feels like it should be

I think some are getting quite good. I’m following Manjaro/Phosh, and it’s showing promise. I’m not using it for much yet, just watching it develop. I believe other distros are further along.

I’ve been switching away from the web and back to native in a big way and it’s making my life much easier. The web sucks. It’s the worst part of modern computing by far. It’s like wading through treacle. Even this article took an age to load and it’s just text. Frankly, I’m amazed Medium even allowed me to view it. Usually I’ve exceeded my ration card.

No it doesn’t. You might get a refund or some stock advice, but don’t expect any help beyond that

I don’t think you quite understand what security through obscurity means. It’s not an invitation to help malicious actors pen-test your system by publishing information about it.

How come the quite thoughtful comment you’re replying to is downvoted while your snotty little reply isn’t?

Actually it is. Risk management has to be proportionate to the risk.

People are intimidated by CLIs. Simple as that