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  • Yeah, I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. Everything you said is true, and respectful.

    I think open-ended can be okay, so long as there are milestones we can achieve (i.e. try different things out to see what works and what doesn’t). Something as big as the environment, health/safety, and not completely alienating industries (as much as I hate to say it, we do need them and their resources to an extent), is not something that is going to be easily solved without compromise.

    I expect that my last two points will not win me any popularity contests, but they cannot be ignored.









  • This may or may not help, but here’s my two cents:

    Windows was originally built to be as user-friendly as possible because its target audience are non-tech-savvy people. It then evolved into being a business OS. So security was never its first priority.

    UNIX was built for tech savvy people to do business-sensitive stuff, and required sophisticated security models. Linux was modeled after UNIX (Minix specifically), and thus inherited those same principles. It evolved to become more user friendly. But security remained a priority.

    Now, that said, both Windows and Linux are configurable. You can make Windows more secure with effort, just like you can make Linux less secure with effort (and I don’t mean simply using root all the time).

    There are diehards on both sides , and they will make excellent (or terrible) arguments for their favored OS. So you need to decide what works best for you and your use case and go with that. 😊








  • Here’s how I approach old and slow:

    1. Older software is mature and battle tested. It’s been around long enough that the developers should know what they’re doing, and have built a strong community for help and support.
    2. Slow is okay when it comes to accuracy. Would I love to back up my gigabytes (peanuts compared to some of you folks out there with data centers in your attics) in seconds? Yes. But more importantly, I’d rather have my data be valid for if I ever need to do any kind of restore. And I’ve been around the block enough times in my career to see many useless backups.

  • I’m going to try to replicate as much of Postman as I feel is useful - minus the AI crap and the whole third-party cloud services. I do plan on using iCloud for personal storage, and I’m thinking GitHub for team sharing (admittedly, that feature is a ways off, and I’m open to suggestions).

    I’m using SwiftUI to build the app. I think once I get a stable macOS version, I might do an iPad version too.