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Re: A challenge for the "advocates"

From Nobody <nobody@invalid.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A challenge for the "advocates"
Date 2015-09-04 21:01 -0500
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <msdide$d5c$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <D20E3DFB.59E3F%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <msbhgg$vk2$1@news.albasani.net> <D20E99FF.59E96%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <msdeb8$5r7$1@news.albasani.net> <D20F9086.59F75%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>

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On 9/4/2015 8:16 PM, Snit wrote:
> On 9/4/15, 5:51 PM, in article msdeb8$5r7$1@news.albasani.net, "Nobody"
> <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> Snit wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/4/15, 12:33 AM, in article msbhgg$vk2$1@news.albasani.net, "Nobody"
>>> <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/3/15, 5:26 PM, in article msaog2$3o6$1@news.albasani.net, "Nobody"
>>>>> <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <https://youtu.be/NPM_WldEBs0>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Linux the way I think most would do it is save the file as PDF to
>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>> recipes folder, then dig down to it and open it (or save and open it on
>>>>>>> their desktop and move it to their recipes folder later), then edit it,
>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>> save it, then attach it to an email.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think people on Linux, or any other system for that matter,
>>>>>> would follow the convoluted procedure you lay out above.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I for one would simply selcect "Email Link" from the browser menu, then
>>>>>> add any notes I had to the resulting email.
>>>>>
>>>>> This does not offer the user an easy to print PDF where the note is already
>>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> The user doesn't need a PDF, just a link to the recipe, and if you want
>>>> to tell the person you subsituted coconut oil for butter, it can be said
>>>> in the email.  Your way is non-productive, inefficient, and error-prone.
>>>
>>> Then they cannot just print the PDF in the email... and sending the link
>>> also does not send a PDF they can easily print.
>>
>> They don't need any of that.  All they need is the link that takes them
>> to the web page with the recipe.
>>
>>> I do similar things often with things like recipes, lesson plans, questions
>>> my students send me, etc. Comes down to you have no good method so you are
>>> crying sour grapes.
>>
>> My method beats the crap out of your way of doing it.  And the only
>> topic here is sending a recipe from a Web page with added notes, not all
>> that other goalpost moving stuff you're throwing in.
>>
>> [useless bullshit snipped]
>>
>>>> Just send the person a link to the recipe.  Add any notes to the
>>>> resulting email.   Rapid, reliable, secure.
>>>
>>> Not the task in question...
>>
>> Yes it is.
>>
>>>   but THAT task can be done on OS X with a simple
>>> drag and drop to get the link to the mail client.
>>
>> There's no need to go down to the desktop and start moving icons around
>> when the browser menu provides everything needed.
>
> You can whine about how sour the grapes are all you want, but the task is
> easy to understand (more details in the video)
> <https://youtu.be/NPM_WldEBs0>:

No further details are needed.

> * Get an online recipe (or art project or lesson plan or whatever)

No, just an online recipe, the challenge you started this thread with.

> * Email and save a PDF of the webpage along with edits to that page

Unnecessary complications to send somebody a recipe for chocolate chip 
cookies with the suggestion butter be substituted by coconut oil.

> This is easy on OS X... and certainly possible on Linux. But when you see
> this task you decided it was too much and decided to do a different task
> which does not fit the criteria.

The criteria is not duplicating your convolutions with Mac OS X.  The 
task which "fits the criteria" is sending somebody a recipe with notes 
added.

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A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 14:08 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-01 23:42 +0200
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 15:32 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-02 08:20 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-02 04:52 -0700
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 12:49 +0000
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-02 08:04 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-09-02 10:36 -0400
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:01 +0000
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:29 +0000
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 08:48 -0700
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:49 -0700
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 17:38 -0700
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-02 21:58 -0600
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-02 19:41 +0000
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 23:41 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-09-03 09:27 -0400
  Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 14:43 -0700
    Re: Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-01 23:55 +0000
      Re: Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 18:44 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 14:57 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-01 22:39 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 15:44 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-01 23:10 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 15:52 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 18:02 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 08:13 +0200
      Re: Another Snit Circus attempt. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-02 04:50 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 14:56 +0000
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 00:26 +0000
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 07:33 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 00:44 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:51 +0000
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:01 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:03 -0500
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:52 -0500
                Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:23 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-09-04 11:19 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 09:47 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-09-04 11:15 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 09:49 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:08 -0500
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:54 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:54 -0500
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:23 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:06 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:57 -0500
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:56 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:24 -0500

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