> The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing.
If that were the singular goal/point, then most people should simply give up working entirely because they'll never reach it. They're working their own version of the sunk cost fallacy.
Very few of us in society do work that truly matters. Work is like a colouring book: A complete waste of your time (though work might be less fun, YMMV).
It would be lovely to give up the charade of the importance of work.
Immoral & wrong to use possible security threats as excuses to secure devices against their owners. There have to be escape hatches. It has to be the user's device.
Mitm your own traffic is a right. It's my traffic, not yours.
The chance of a corporation mismanaging & accidentally letting their key get leaked is not a technical problem, like you pose. The HSM is fine. No one's going to crack your encryption.
But omgosh the Conways law implications of securing your nuclear waste, oops, i mean your hsm, are incredibly complex & long lived challenges. The odds of any given company accidentally messing up some month or another are quite high. If you have certificate pinning, you literally cannot escape your own mistakes. The ability to respond to mistakes should probably be taken as a necessary for most security footings of most organizations, and the whole point of certificate pinning is that response is impossible, that a cert is pinned in.
I also imagine I'm not the only one who doesn't use their work laptop for personal stuff (even on a separate partition). At my previous job, I never even took my work laptop home, and in my current remote job, my work laptop gets booted up at the start of each work day and shut down at the end; I have my own devices for non-work use.
The passphrase is what makes it a poor user experience. Many people simply need an encrypted disk that you can't boot offline and not the boot-time PIN/passphrase (which Microsoft abandoned as the default in Windows 8, I believe, again due to UX).
It would certainly make you stand out on that network map compared to others who are even more boring than you are (read: just about everyone, sans criminal enterprises as noted above).
It would be hilarious and sad if some spooks focused on me or my wife and wasted hours on traffic analysis just to figure out we are average law abiding people of zero interest.
Okay, consider you have 3 apps: gmail, slack and google docs
In gmail, you have a shipping confirmation, a calendar invite, and a team newsletter.
In slack you have a question from a customer, a review request from the team, and a poll for the next offsite.
And in Docs, you have a new project summary, a budget proposal, and a post-mortem doc.
You see, how you actually have 9 different things to do (intentions), but the number of apps you have is just 3? Sometimes, you'll have a thread of things across multiple apps. So despite switching "apps" there's still mental overhead of piecing things together. It's easy to overlook, but sometimes switching apps can causes an effect like walking into a new room, and forgetting why you were there in the first place. Hurting your focus/flow.
That’s not fair. Context switching often involves a lot more than opening up another tab. And even if it’s not a problem for you, maybe it’s a problem for other people? Or you in the future?
Maybe what I just outlined doesn’t require a new OS but acknowledging the problem seems in line with accepting the most charitable interpretation.
Right. What helps(me) is 12 virtual desktops, one per app so I am single keybind away from anything I need. Not.... whatever this idea is.
I went over the years pretty much from full fledged GNOME/KDE thru light alternatives (XFCE), all the way to nerded out i3 tiling manager + tilda console for the ad-hoc stuff like CLI calculator. And cute little script to display list of .pcap files in /tmp and open wireshark on chosen one coz that's handy for the job
I just observed that most of the usage is "switch between a bunch of full screen apps + starting those" so I cut out the fat.
I don't need icons on desktop, I don't see it most of the day, apps are ran from alt+f2 launcher, few common apps got their own shortcuts, and I have some keybinds to move them between the desktops in that once a month case I need this app on different desktop than usual.
I3 matches apps to desktops by name so if I press caps_lock or hyper_l + 2 I always get firefox, if I press <mod>+4 I always get IDEA etc.
I do realize that's custom customization most people won't bother to do but "distraction-less" OS should aim to do exactly that, get out of the way as much as possible from someone's chosen workflow, not try to shoehorn its own one, and one that seems to love idea of wasting space and minimum information density
I would enjoy some "omni-menu" that is smart enough to figure out whether I want to
* run an app
* run unit conversion/calculator
* search my stuff
* have some shortcuts to add calendar event or todo element or "open ms teams (company cursed me with it) and call person X"
But any existing ones seem to care about look more than functionality and information density so `rofi` is enough.
And that office-adjacent app developers (mostly Microsoft, but Google isn't blameless) stop making integration of anything harder and harder, so stuff that should be nice and easy decades ago (like calendars and todo working from any app) isn't shit.
In all seriousness, emacs is a good example of an environment where "apps" are less siloed and rigid than they are in a typical graphical OS environment. Another is the Unix shell. The idea of creating an environment that achieves the same level of flexibility and empowerment while being modern and graphical and, somehow, accessible to non-programmers… it's not a new idea, but it's a noble one. "Mercury OS" deserves points for at least trying to imagine how it could work, even if there's not much meat on the bone.
According to the "read more" link in the "humane" section(1), this friction seems to happen because the guy who came up with this proposal is painfully ADHD.
Praying for generic adalimumab to finally hit the US market. People overseas have been getting this stuff for a hundred bucks a pop for years now, but AbbVie's done everything in their power to extend the US patent for as long as possible. They'd milk us forever if they could.
Family member is on Remicade. It's administered in two doses (IV infusions) every 4 months, so 6 treatments/year. And retails for something like $12k/treatment. And many insurance companies have removed it from their list of preferred drugs due to the cost, leaving patients to fight for medically necessary treatment.
It's a fucking nightmare (as if RA on it's own isn't bad enough).
My body created an antibody to infliximab after about 6 months of treatment and I had a bad reaction to it. 6 months of expensive treatment wasted.
Doc replaced it with Azathioprine, a cheap generic, and I've had no major flare-ups of UC in 6 years.
If I have minor symptoms (usually triggered by certain foods), I also take mesalazine, but once I am in remission I can do without the mesalazine. If I withdraw from AZA when I am in remission, minor symptoms typically return after around 3 months, but subside after I resume taking the AZA for a couple of months. I can retain remission doing 3 months on, 3 months off.
This does not invalidate my comment at all. It only shows that Fasting can be an effective way to reduce symptoms - but it won't cure RA. There is no known cure for RA.
