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Masters in bioinformatics, but I’d be proud to be on art or history, your comments only reflects the limitations of your own weak mind. It’s super weird, and telling, that you decided to single out history and art.

No way the lobotomized monkey we trained on internet data is reproducing internet biases! Unexpected!

What’s with the recent influx of posts against higher education, or more in general, anti-education posts?

Join us over at /c/singlepurpose ;)

The goal of schools is not to prepare you for capitalism. Luckily, they’re one of the few institutions that are still concerned with human values beyond money.

You could argue it would be valuable, from a practical sense, to additionally offer classes on personal finance, sure, but it’s abhorrent to use music lessons as a mocking point or suggest that somehow the school should teach finance instead of all other subject matters.

Plant morphologists: Nooo you can’t just call a drupe a schizocarp! That’s a totally different fruit type!

Plant phylogeneticists: yeah, this tree is just a highly derived type of cabbage.

You’re not wrong either, I just think we are talking about two very different kinds of user here, and they have different levels of challenge and convenience to balance. I’m not even talking about myself: I moved everything to analog, but not my password manager - I use a password manager like yourself, a 2FA app and a physical USB key.

if you don’t mind carrying it around with you everywhere

I doubt the target demographic for a paper password notebook is logging into their accounts everywhere, as if that’s some common occurrence.

and hoping it doesn’t rain

Ah yes, famously, before the invention of laptops universities and schools didn’t work on every single rainy day, because paper notebooks and books are impossible to keep dry. As a matter of fact, the UK never had an educational system before the digital age for this very reason, it’s so sad.

You can’t store your passkeys or TOTP in your notebook either.

You shouldn’t store 2FA and recovery codes on your password manager. They offer the feature as a competitive selling point, but the entire point of having 2FA is avoiding single point of failures.

Neither did my laptop, desktop, or phone. I use Linux and GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is a significantly more complicated and less accessible option for most users compared to a simple paper notebook, which is the context of this post.

But if you want to go this deep, then yes, maybe your phone using your custom OS never introduced Gemini or Copilot without your will. It is however running a Qualcomm modem firmware you can’t control and is phoning home, regardless of your GrapheneOS settings, with your GPS coordinates and other data you can’t read, at any time. Don’t worry, with tech we can always find a malicious feature that works against the user, regardless of how deep you want to dive.

I’m going back to paper for most things and I don’t know man, I think it’s more user friendly given the current tech landscape. My paper notebook never changed the interface to add a huge Copilot button.

How things are made matter just as much as the thing itself. People who can’t understand this simple fact are half the reason our environment is being destroyed.

If the end result is all that matters, there are a ton of unimaginable horrors that could be done.

There’s no world where Windows users only use the official store. In fact, that’s why every “S” version of Windows always failed.

but also plenty of pitfalls from an OS sec POV.

Can’t possibly be more vulnerable than Windows, the system where you can elevate yourself to highest privileges by simply clicking “Yes” on a prompt without a password, and where most users are running outdated versions of their software because they never update anything, or have a thousand background “updater” applets that are scheduled to run periodically and have the ability to install arbitrary executables from their servers.

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We used to post pictures of beans on Lemmy and get five hundred replies

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In your situation, Ente would be better. Handling a VPS for Immich is asking for a headache.

Ente supports a family plan, handles hosting and backup for you, supports all your usual media files and imports them cleanly from Google Photos. But it’s private, encrypted, and you can take out your data at any time with a single click.

Excel I agree with.

But sometimes there is value in teaching the old tools/frameworks for doing something. For instance, in bioinformatics, I prefer students that can explain what the FASTA format is versus just boinking the pretty GUI button on the proprietary format used by their sequencer.

Gnome apps running on my PC:

I don’t use Gnome

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