Re: Favorite Font

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 21:50 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:56:58 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:
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Print?  Does anyone still print?

 
The web has become nearly intolerable.  Even the choice of font is
horrible in nearly all websites, not to mention text size, image and
ads.  It's funny how sometimes I invoke the print-friendly extension on
my browser just to read /on screen/.  But the rule is to actually print
it out.
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Well, it depends on the web site.
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A lot of sites are designed only for mobile and they are certainly
terrible.  But such sites usually contain no worthwhile information
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Then there are the various blogs that use standard blog templates
that are loaded with javascript.  Some of these blogs are worthwhile
and can be saved in the browser using the "Save Web Page Complete"
option.  This should be followed by stripping the HTML file of
all javascript and then removing all javascript and CSS files.
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However, the best way to save web pages is to use either "wget" or "curl"
followed, again, by stripping all the javascript an CSS files.

I personally at least try to make my website compatible with this, and I
agree that it is nice to be able to wget a single page cleanly. If you
need it, though, theres always the recurse and page-requisites options.

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 And books, of course: I print out a chapter to see if I want to
continue the reading and it's much lighter to carry a chapter than the
entire physical book.  Electronic devices are not flexible like paper
and they reflect light in a different way and you can't write on their
margins using a device that lets you feel the friction of pencil on
paper or pen on paper.  Some pens are such beautiful devices.
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Anything interesting I find on the web I print for later reading.
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Whew!  You must spend a fortune on ink or toner.
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Saving web pages as described above, or printing to PDF, is the
much cheaper, and in the long term more desirable, option.  The same
applies to books.
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I have literally tens of thousands of web pages saved.  If I were
to physically print all of those the paper alone would weigh several
tons.
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It would be even worse for the digital books in my collection.
Printing even a tiny fraction of those would break the foundation
of my home.
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One has to get accustomed to preserving and consuming digital data
as digital data.  With competent software, annotating digital content
can be done with ease, and with far more capability than pen or pencil.
The print medium is really no longer appropriate.

I haven't printed in a while.
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