2015/10/12 7:14 "Lisi Reisz" <lisi.re...@gmail.com>: > > On Sunday 11 October 2015 22:33:16 Timothy Hobbs wrote: > > Please don't go all pedantic on us! > > > > On 10/11/15 23:31, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Please don't top post on the debian-user mailing list. > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > >> El 11/10/15 a las 13:13, moxalt escribió: > > >>> Seriously, though, as much as you dread returning to lynx, it is the > > >>> most bandwith-friendly option on the table. If you don't want videos of > > >>> any kind, and are content with just plaintext (and separately > > >>> downloadable images) you should be safe. What's so bad about lynx? > > >> > > >> Last time I checked, most sites don't display properly with lynx > > >> because > > >> they are not designed for text-based browses. All on the contrary, > > >> most web > > >> sites are full of useless images, but nonetheless, not displaying them > > >> breaks those sites. > > > > > > I haven't found that at all. In fact pressing the '*' key loads all > > > images, which you could download if you wanted. > > > > > >> There may be application for those browsers (like reading HTML manuals > > >> that > > >> have minimal formatting), but obviously they are not suitable for > > >> ordinary > > >> browsing. > > > > > > au contraire, I find lynx good for the majority of the sites that I > > > visit. It's only on the rare occasion I do need to use iceweasel. > > > > > > I even use it for youtube to get the link then use cclive to download > > > the video, of course I have to change to the GUI to watch it though. :) > > > > Please don't go all pedantic on us! > > It's not pedantic. It makes the thread readable instead of incomprehensible. > > Lisi >
I suspect Chris appreciated the humour in that. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.
