[sf-lug] some notes on the Virtual Meeting of Sunday 3 January 2021

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

> But then fools like me will have more problems using their
> computers.

tl;dr:  A computer is not a typewriter.  

Learning and engagement with the particulars are, for that reason,
necessary and useful.  People who merely go with defaults and never
bother to learn the tools they use daily will inevitably have to some
degree unsatisfactory results.  Which sadly is where most desktop users
land, and remain.  It has always been thus, but it is particularly painful 
to see people perpetuate this mistake on Linux for no better reason than
it being the path of least resistance they learned on proprietary OSes
-- since the whole aim of open source is empowerment.

Anyway, I'm addressing preferentially the relative few, who're willing
to realise they've been stuck in a hole and willing to cease digging.
There are never many, but there are always some.  Most folks will never
bother to learn, because it's easier to do nothing.

> Not too often but I look especially when problems arise.

It was a _rhetorical_ question.

But since you went for it anyway, can you distinguish between RSS and
VSZ figures, without looking up those concepts?


> Actually it has spread to continental Europe as well.

[Just to be clear, you were responding here to Aaron.]