mhoyeMy personal machine boots to an oldschool console, and then nothing. The GUI environment starts with a blank background, a mouse pointer, and nothing else. And I am, regrettably, thinking about this a lot these days:
I'd like to believe that there's a path to minimalism-of-complexity in computing that doesn't reject the complexity of the human experience.
I'd like to believe that there's a path to minimalism-of-resource-consumption and minimalism-of-dependency that doesn't demand the rejection or diminishment of others.
But god damn there is some sort of greasy pipeline in open source that funnels young men directly from "I choose not to find value in this usecase" to "I do not find value in this person."
Raven667@mhoye I'm guessing the common element is an obsession with "purity" which is a value judgment that extends in many different directions and an overactive disgust response, purity of the mind, purity of the body, purity of the neighborhood/nation, purity of "race", purity of computing, all could be related in the mind of one so obsessed. When I recognize someone with an obsession about purity or "natural" over safety or efficacy, it's a red-flag for me, doesn't always mean the crunchy granola types are fascists but it's a useful warning to pay attention
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Chris Siebenmann@mhoye Fortunately my desktop aesthetic involves too much clutter to probably be mistaken this way (even though fvwm is probably considered a 'minimal' window manager these days). But I do use dmenu, although it long ago diverged from upstream, and sometimes the associations there make me twitch a bit.
(Wayland will make me replace it, before then it's too much work, or so I tell myself.)
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