My 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."
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