Widdershins Smith 🐘Smith's Definition of a Tool:
A tool is a device that enables you to expend fewer calories* performing a task.
If your tool - hardware or software - doesn't do that, then it's not a tool.
*or Joules, or any unit of energy you fancy.
gigantos@juglugs how about time, as that is the unit I most commonly use a tool against
Saving you time is, by definition, saving you calories...
@juglugs I guess, but at the same time it could encourage me to spend the saved time eating 🤔
I refer you to the last three words in the definition - it saves you calories performing a task.
If you want to gain more calories after the task is done, it's nothing to do with the tool...
MikeK