From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by ur; Thu Mar 2 13:25:19 EST 2017 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE02208DF for <9front@9front.org>; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:25:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from web6 ([10.202.2.216]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:25:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= mesmtp; bh=sRDR/1oVpo21+j8GjYRY1CgsyDY=; b=G99W3LRmXAxfgGba8FClE puN5+KRBO8V7gtXrx2OtLb6VBmRwfLB8Co0EeVUoGyFUN1sFR2urM/9IUhHeW69d SbuSKrjApg2BeVyWRTqYeztv6dA4jcbURUDf90a4dIUpBhqt1qx0iKuJf+7nulFe 2H7V7ATRcoMW0oNCFpBa7o= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=sRDR/1oVpo21+j8GjYRY1Cgsy DY=; b=MCosgtLWVKBY+YrT9K+WPDCgy6iHU0+TnCudcTUAdLWuCOe54nxTIaXA6 E4iN0uwNy47egkBNws0B2erTKiROYwwYfaZcI9rHAEVSrUhZ+Pxf7homHaiSvuS8 wsb6E8E/qcrFP+qaT79DDHYbO7rz+/SlBLhXJ66LjDyXNHJXAU= X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 7FDB748006; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:25:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1488479117.146098.898370832.274D33C4@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9front@9front.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-715c2c0c Subject: So long, and thanks for all the code! Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:25:17 +0000 List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: shader-scale self-signing-based control So long, and thanks for all the code! So sad that it should come to this. I thought that most of you were witty, especially Julius and Kurt H. Maier! For several years I've used 9front to organize my life and everything in it. I had a subrio or an acme with its own plumber for class of activities: an acme for appointments and necessities of life; an acme for chat logs and a quotes file; a subrio for games with acmes for different games; a subrio for programming with an acme and sometimes another window for each project; etc. On the other hand, I'm finding that maintaining my computers is really too much for me because of my fatigue and concentration issues. Tasks which other people a few hours can take me several days, and my fatigue problems are so bad that my daily life continues to be affected for some days after I stop. Perhaps because I work so hard at it, my nerves and stomach can also be affected, as has happened in the last week. As if that weren't enough reason to stop, Plan 9 papers and manual pages are written for educated professionals who won't be confused by terminology introduced and used before explanations. I only today understood parts of the networking paper, and that only by working hard to study it. I considered studying and annotating plan 9 documentation, but I have no room for that in my life. In short, if I were sane, I would have given up long ago. :) I'm retiring my 9front server and won't be replacing it. I'll use inferno to organize my life instead; likely an emu instance for each acme or subrio i have now. I hope it doesnt' crash too much! I expect you'll still see me in #cat-v most of the time. :) -- I'm too old to use vi.