Re: Favorite Font

From	Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject	Re: Favorite Font
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
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Date	2025-09-20 18:42 +0000
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On 20 Sep 2025 18:02:36 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

>>
>> I have tens of thousands of ebooks
> 
> Speaking about nonsense, you are great with your answer. They are
> useless: you couldn't have read them and you'll never read them. It's
> impossible to read tens of thousand of book in a lifetime.
> 

I have read a lot of them, and I will keep reading (and acquiring) more,
but they are mostly for reference.

If I need something I don't need to travel many miles to a major
university library.

> 
> That's clear nonsense. Solar or wind sources have environmental costs.
> Like nuclear sources. The costs are not the same, but they exist. Do you
> really believe you can create a nuclear central without any
> environmental cost? Or a wind turbine without any material? Or a sonar
> panel without any material?
> 

The cost is SIGNIFICANTLY less that coal, oil, or gas fired plants.

Idiot.

> 
> Yes, print will fade over time, but I'll be long gone before the ink
> will fade on the paper I used.
> 

Not so with images.

Furthermore, an adequately scanned image is far more versatile than
a photo in a photo album.

>> But e-material will stay fresh forever.
> 
> Nonsense. First it depend on what you store them. If you are using
> Compact Disks they wont leave more than a few year. The floppy disks had
> an expected life way shorter. For an hard drive, I don't really know but
> as it's magnetic, it can't stay forever.
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What a dufus!

The implication is that digital files will always be duplicated on a regular
basis.  This practice will ensure extreme longevity.

Eventually, digital archival storage technology will get better and better.

Gutenberg is long dead.  Digital is now the new king.

-- 
Gentoo: the only road to GNU/Linux perfection.

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  Re: Favorite Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-20 15:13 +0000
    Re: Favorite Font Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-09-20 15:51 +0000
      Re: Favorite Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-20 18:02 +0000
        Re: Favorite Font Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-09-20 18:42 +0000
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            Re: Favorite Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-21 10:34 +0100
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                Re: Favorite Font Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-22 22:53 +0000
                Re: Favorite Font Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2025-09-23 07:35 +0000
            Re: Favorite Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-21 15:26 +0000
              Re: Favorite Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-21 18:57 +0100
                Re: Favorite Font Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-21 22:53 +0000
            Re: Favorite Font Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-21 22:52 +0000
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                Re: Favorite Font Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2025-09-22 18:36 +0000
          Re: Favorite Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-21 14:59 +0000
            Re: Favorite Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-21 16:15 +0100
            Re: Favorite Font Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-09-21 20:19 +0000
              Re: Favorite Font pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-09-23 01:16 +0000
    Re: Favorite Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-20 16:59 +0100
      Re: Favorite Font Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-20 18:48 +0100
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          Re: Favorite Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-21 09:45 +0100
      Re: Favorite Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-20 18:18 +0000
        Re: Favorite Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-21 09:34 +0100
          Re: Favorite Font Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-21 23:02 +0000
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