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Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here



On 2025-07-11, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:13:05 +0200
> Philipp Ewald <philipp.ewald@digionline.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 10.07.25 um 15:14 schrieb Andy Smith:
>> > I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally
>> > say things like, "email is only for password reminders and my Steam
>> > login code". It's not that they are non-technical or uninterested in
>> > technology, it's that specifically email is an unknown and unwieldy
>> > tool for them. When email is the only support venue, to a lot of
>> > folks that is unwelcoming.  
>> 
>> 
>> Email is for sending you Files/notes if you dont have a cloud.
>> 
>> > email is an unknown and unwieldy tool
>> > for them.   
>> 
>> 100% True
>
> Whereas those of us who use email see it as exactly the other way
> around, email is a simple protocol that isn't controlled by one private

I use a mail to news gateway (gmane) that I find more convenient than
email (to tell the truth, I don't even know how people handle the shitload
of emails flooding into their inboxes).

As to control, the archives of everything we say are public and being
scraped by various LLMs as we speak. This is the future. 


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