How about buying (and installing) two cheap laptops, say used Thinkpads (or Framework!?), and then backing up $HOME (and maybe list of installed packages) at one's convenience? These are nowadays light enough to carry around when traveling with luggage. If deemed too heavy, at least a Thinkpad likely is on sale closeby and `dd`ing an ISO image, installing the missing packages and copying $HOME should not take too long.
They may have rendered absurd to not have TLS, but they also rendered certification absurd, in the sense that all you get is little more than encryption:
if you care about identity, then the free Let's Encrypt certificate coupled to a domain owner's email address gives you little guarantee.
Compare this to the extended validation certificates with personally certified credentials and browsers attesting these by, say, a green address bar (instead of today's flat padlock), that a bank customer expects before entering their login data.
Setting up an encrypted web-domain with continual Let's Encrypt certificate renewal has become tedious cargo-culting around the relicts of the idea of a certificate that establishes trust by identity verification.
The collapse of identity-based certification is not Let’s Encrypt’s fault.
People naturally choose the easiest option, and Let’s Encrypt supplied it.
Entrusting a handful of commercial certificate authorities with global identity is dubious on first principles anyway, but at least they tried;
yet, for all its flaws, that centralized system has proven more practical than the idealistic, decentralized "web of trust".
The classic z [0] is a shell script and thus doesn't require any installation other than loading this script in your shell's rc file.
I found Navita [1] an improvement over it that works more reliably on different shells such as Bash and ZSH, though.
Though it promises to convert everything to Markdown, it seems to be
a worse version of what the already existing tools such as PDFtotext, docx2txt, pptx2md, ... collected [here] do without even pretending to export to Markdown.
Looking at its [source], it indeed seems to be a wrapper to python variants of those. Making the pool smaller can hardly improve the output.
For those without admin rights preferring ZSH to Bash in the Windows Terminal: install MSYS2 with scoop.sh, then the ZSH package with `pacman -S zsh` and add a shell with commandline `%USERPROFILE%\\scoop\\apps\\msys2\\current\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64 -shell zsh` to launch it in Windows Terminal.
All fair points. The second and third one can be mitigated by a, say, w3m mailcap entry respectively muttrc entry set send_multipart_alternative_filter=markdown2html.py [1]
In the UK Thatcher might have been a driving force.
In Western thinking (entering a rabbit hole) conceiving humanities as sciences is a recurrent theme (say, in the Scepticism of Hume) that Auguste Comte in the 19th century turned into the doctrine of positivism:
- The scientific method (and precision of mathematics) applies to all sciences, social and natural.
- Knowledge can be proved only by observation trough empiric means and deductive reasoning.
For Excel on Microsoft Windows, there is vim_ahk [1] to add Vim key bindings (after adding EXCEL.EXE to VimGroup) using AutoHotKey.
For LibreOffice, especially its spreadsheet calculator Calc, there is the vibreoffice [2] extension.
[0] https://gist.github.com/Konfekt/8e484af2955a0c7bfe82114df683...