Haai, "Tomasz Rola" <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:25:56PM +0100, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: >> > > I use lynx a lot, very nice tool. It also helped me to restart my > browsing of gopher sites. There was plenty of them 20+ years ago, now > it is just a handful of servers. But still, better than nothing.
Menever quite was into Gopher, but mereally should try and have a look someday... >> Occasionally, when really pressed, meruns 'tails', a specialized Lunix >> distro, from a DVD on a spare craptop; at least that way, mecan get rid >> of the bloated, buggy shit by simply turning off the machine. > > I do not know tails, only read about it. > > Using separate computers for different roles might be a way of the > future. A very convoluted way. But one cannot count too much on > security offered by modern popular cpus and there is always a chance > to be struck by something unexpected: I have just read that bmp file > from game server might make buffer overflow on client side. So, one > machine for gaming, one for reading, one for shopping and one for > work. And one for listing the music. 2003 came calling ;) Seriously: what you fear has already come to pass, for many people, long ago. It's even in the mainstream now: there, it's considered good practice to design an "app" so that a luser can seamlessly use it across the various "devices" in its possession. Or is merunning behind and did that idea die? > I will never propose this kind of solution to normal people. :-) Thankfully, we're not normal here =) >> -- >> Friggin' Machines! > > Oh no, it is not the machines. It is their masters. And their creators. The phrase is from an old Quake map that me's long since forgotten the name of. --zeurkous. -- Friggin' Machines!