I study math at uni and I was shocked realizing all my teachers use ubuntu on both their laptop and work desktop

  • ignirtoq
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    1413 months ago

    Not only did my math master’s thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn’t need.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 months ago

      plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)

    • @[email protected]
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      93 months ago

      my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.

      I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) gui’s people used for icq messaging though.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Wait what? Telnet? I am guessing cybersecurity is not one of the classes available at your school.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          it might’ve been ssh i can’t really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one. IIRC don’t think either service was accesible via the internet though.

    • @maryjayjay
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      3 months ago

      Elm or mutt? Say pine and I’ll die

      • ignirtoq
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        23 months ago

        I think it was pine, actually, but it was over 10 years ago so I can’t say for sure.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      I set up Alpine to read my Gmail last summer, and while the nostalgia hit was nice, the browser version was more responsive and useful, cap I went back to that.