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

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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.

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Chad

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Elm or mutt? Say pine and I’ll die

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

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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.)

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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TIL that plain TeX is a thing.

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