Hi, sorry I was logged out due to 2FA, and I didn’t really try to log back until now.
I agree about the “unusual leap of contextual logic made to connect Twitter to Emacs”. For my defense, repeating the same idea over and over is exhausting, and this is precisely how social media addicts use microblogging.
I don’t have the time to answer right now, I know from experience it would take several A4 pages, but thank you for the kind answer.
It’s free software, funded by donations. Anyway, no, not where I live, and I’m autistic, you’re comparing the way I communicate with an ad.
Oh, definitely not a purchase, but Emacs. My life was a mess because of Twitter and it was anti-Twitter in every way – no characters limit, offline, insanely powerful. While Twitter would prevent me from prioritizing, Org-mode could handle task lists, spreadsheets, text documents, with academic citations support, and could export them to .ics, .odt, .pdf, .md, etc. Ideas are affordances and Emacs has let me focus on these instead of trying to build a picture perfect online profile.
Whereas Twitter isn’t meant for most people’s use cases so it runs a long-term scam called “optimization for engagement” (which is actually abuse by definition), doing everything it can to prevent its victims from taking hindsight on and conceptualizing what’s happening to them, Emacs is letting me channel all of this frustration into reading and writing my master thesis. Which deals with how social media increase social inequalities. Highly recommended.
A Raspberry Pi. I bought it out of a whim and now I use it as a portable desktop computer, I can use Alpine Linux with my files and my setup on virtually any system that doesn’t whitelist MAC addresses.
Especially handy when your university has contracts with Microsoft so you aren’t supposed to use competitive software, I feel like I’m breaking the law.
Try spending 5-7 hours a day, for years, on a stupid website and you’ll figure it out.
I’m speechless with the way this community, not just you, has reacted – i.e. sure, I’m sorry for the leaps in my reasoning, but it precisely was the point.