Not sure why this author is spreading “paid software is convenient and just works” rhetoric. Simply isn’t the case. You just get addicted to trying to solve your problems with money.

spendy culture in general is disconnected from reality

author has never used desktop linux and doesn’t really grasp what it is 😜

it isn’t about surprise silly goose its about moving the interaction from a suspected unknown to a known interaction in our collective threat models

silly goose

USA today is a rightwing propaganda rag and this is rightwing propaganda

“my peers aren’t country club conservatives” shut the fuck up you are literally writing for the largest syndicated colonial newspaper network

Yes that’s the specific reason they give. They’re fascists though, ultimately they just like finding excuses to throw away mail, so you don’t give them any.

propaganda like this is so fucking sad

colonizers don’t have anything to value in their culture and they don’t have a future so they want to rip on people who aren’t buying their garbage

This is what I was also going to advise! Pick a couple of styles to emulate for a purpose and use them. In my 20s I picked up block print so I could write to my buddies in the armed forces without the censors throwing my stuff away. It also comes in handy for whiteboarding at work. If you are into game design, maybe pick a style from one of the D&D dungeon illustrations and it might come in handy for your purposes?

keep a rag bag handy and just wipe up cooking grease with those, them throw them in a pile next to the wood stove

you end up needing the oily rags to wipe down the wood stove anyway or else it will rust