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New comment by terminalgravity in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

terminalgravity — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:39:25 +0000

I believe George R. R. Martin uses wordstar to write his books. I still hold a little hope that he will finish A Song of Ice and Fire series.

New comment by terminalgravity in "Can we have the day off?"

terminalgravity — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:14:13 +0000

Benefits for extra productivity filter up to the shareholders not to the workers producing the extra productivity.

This reminds me of the Luddite movement in England. Industrial machines were disrupting the textile industry. The Luddites were not anti technology they were against technology allowing employers to suppress wages and working conditions and for increasing the quality of life and more humane working conditions for the extra productivity.

As we know their movement was not successful giving rise to the bleak images of industrial factory life in England. I think all that will happen is workers will expect to be more productive than before but their skills will be less compensated because “the machine” did most of the work.

https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-t...

New comment by terminalgravity in "Personal Encyclopedias"

terminalgravity — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:46:42 +0000

I do something similar to a personal encyclopedia but using org-roam. I don’t use an LLM yet to do any work but eventually i plan to use a local model to correlate things and pull together things that were not manually connected. Also I’m glad that LLMs can easily parse org docs so that if any future family member wanted to look through they wouldnt have to be familiar with emacs esoteric conventions.

New comment by terminalgravity in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

terminalgravity — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:03:56 +0000

I feel you on this too.

New comment by terminalgravity in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

terminalgravity — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:47:14 +0000

I use photosync to upload to a folder that is an external library for immich. Immich then periodically scans that folder to load new assests. I usually use digikam to manipulate that folder. Immich is there just for easy remote browsing of those files.

New comment by terminalgravity in "I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)"

terminalgravity — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:55:00 +0000

I agree that was a fun read

New comment by terminalgravity in "Taking Notes with Joplin"

terminalgravity — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:26:23 +0000

You said “like Obsidian”. Which parts of Obsidian are most important for you

New comment by terminalgravity in "Taking Notes with Joplin"

terminalgravity — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:24:55 +0000

The reason I learned emacs. I absolutely love it.

New comment by terminalgravity in "If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown"

terminalgravity — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:10:27 +0000

Org mode is great for plain text info storage. Just difficult to use if you havent joined the church of emacs

New comment by terminalgravity in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

terminalgravity — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:50:19 +0000

Im also curious about this. Is it just a website you place an order or do you have to go through some kind of agent?

New comment by terminalgravity in "Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith"

terminalgravity — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:30:53 +0000

Yep not a tech worker at all but here because i like tech and the discussions

New comment by terminalgravity in "OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’"

terminalgravity — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:19:34 +0000

Im not sure a gas station analogy really works. I use a gas station out of convenience (i.e. its on my route) and will only go out of my way for a significant difference in price. This means i go to the same gas stations even when there are others that are “as good as” around just because it’s convenient for me. Similarly if i already setup an account with Amazon and currently use Amazon i won’t move to an “as good as” competitor just because its an inconvenience to setup a new account, add billing info, add my address, etc… for no real improvement.

New comment by terminalgravity in "South Korea court convicts man for dodging military draft by gaining weight"

terminalgravity — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:57:10 +0000

Alternatively they can work in care facilities (elderly care, psychiatric hospitals, etc…). I dont have the details but i know a few people who did this

New comment by terminalgravity in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

terminalgravity — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:33:39 +0000

One thing i like about Emacs is i can be reasonably sure it isnt going anywhere anytime soon. The GNU version was first released almost 40 years ago and its still actively used and maintained. I like investing my time learning quality tools that stand the test of time.

New comment by terminalgravity in "What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?"

terminalgravity — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:58:31 +0000

I wish there was a TL;DW bot to summarize a videos like this. I’m curious but not in a place i could easily watch a video.