On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 03:51:25PM +0200, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Sheesh, sometimes in this list feel like I'm in a retirement home sitting around a circle of people complaining about Elvis and self-serve elevators.
"Real men don't use HTML email"?.... pfffft. Get over it.
I use mutt on one account for mailing lists. I do not deal with html content on that account. I use a gmail account for doing email with friends and websites/companies and such. I would not expect that to not use html and gmail handles that just fine.
These days email makes up but a fraction of my digital communications, and most of that is either mailing lists, or Outlook/Exchange from work because that's how they work .... Skype, Hangouts, SMS, and social media posts enable immediate response and don't need aggressive spam filters. Not every communications calls for the same tool.
As for typing, give me a break. I can enter text on a screen without taking my finger off the glass, (using the free Swiftkey kb) at least as fast as I could ever do on a real keyboard (which was, honestly, never too fast to start with). The innovations here are coming from mobile, not the end of an RS-232 cable.
I do remember a professor pointing out that the Mac GUI didn't make things easier, it just made things harder for those people that could use a CLI so they were at an equal level.
The only times where I really like a full keyboard and pointer is for typing long documents, and creating things that require greater pointing precision than the tip of my finger (which, in my case, mean a Cherry Brown keyboard and trackball instead of mouse). But such creative work takes but a fraction of my total time interfacing with computing devices.
And as for "ooh, that's a CONSUMER device".... expressed in any field, such an attitude does little but reveal elitist snobbery in the speaker. A Samsung phone in the hands of a good photographer will produce more desirable results than a dork with a Hasselblad.
Yes a good tool does not make up for a bad user. But an expert can't make up for a bad tool either. -- Len Sorensen