    I did not leave X the platform, but I did leave X the interface

Left Facebook and twitter 6-7 years ago. If you just can't leave something without constantly trying to reach back to it in some shape, then you are no different from the junkie that thinks he can quit anytime if he really wanted to.

Rant aside, beside social media minimalism I am also a big fan of compute minimalism. I don't use VScode with 100+ plugins or a zsh maxed up with so much bells and whistles that the terminal looks like Christmas and respond with the speed of microsoft powershell.

But I guess most people in SF are in the opposite camp.

▲ advis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When you said compute minimalism, I thought you were going to talk about using a RISC-V processor and using Emacs for any text editing. I'd say that's the real compute minimalism. xD

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epihelix 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Surely there is no universe in which Emacs hits the definition of a minimal anything?

	▲	opan an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Good ol' Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping holds up well these days when the competition is stuff like vscode. But yeah, I think vim is probably a bit more minimal.
	▲	bunderbunder 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Look, as long as nobody looks inside my .doom.d directory nobody has to get hurt.

▲ skydhash 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> beside social media minimalism I am also a big fan of compute minimalism. I don't use VScode with 100+ plugins or a zsh maxed up with so much bells and whistles

That’s what I thought the article would talk about. If it were social media, I’d rather buy a cheap used phone, put the app on it, and turn it on only when I want to check something. Then it’s off. But I deleted/haven’t logged into my accounts for years now.

As for as minimal compute goes. my daily driver is an old laptop I put OpenBSD on. I also have an m1 air that I mostly use for shopping and meeting. Then an iPad for reading. But the key thing is that app and software are tools. It’s either tied to an activity (even relaxing ones) or it’s not used. No ricing or theming, just basic configuration to get the job done.