Yes! I’m no longer at university, so I don’t typeset equations or graph data often anymore, but I am a big fan of -mom for typesetting other notes. I especially appreciate its split between “document processing” (semantic meaning) and “typesetting” (visual presentation) macros, which resonated with me due to its similarity to the split between HTML (semantic) & CSS (presentation).

Do you mean using LibreOffice to view markdown documents with nicer presentation? I never knew LibreOffice could do that! I will admit I have grown to like markdown because I can get my coworkers to use it without too much hassle, but we use it with Wiki.js, not for its own sake.

I’m glad to hear you settled on using groff with -mom :)

I use GNU Stow for mine so the dotfiles I care about are included in my file-level backups. Once I restore my files, I can just run the stow(8) command to create the symbolic links. But, if I just want the dotfiles without the rest of my files, I would use scp(1) to copy the stow directory over to a new system, because it would be simplest. I don’t use version control with my stow directory (yet).

I find it important to support projects that contribute to the greater free software ecosystem. I pick projects I benefit from and whose continued existence I am invested in, despite any faults.

• The NetBSD Project
• The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• The SDF plan9front server
• Project Gutenberg
• Standard Ebooks
• The Internet Archive (IA)
• The Wikimedia Foundation

I can understand giving up on FreeBSD–OpenBSD at least offers to install & configure a graphical environment with a graphical login screen during the installation process, which makes it much easier to get up and running for desktop or laptop use (on supported hardware).

• Emacs 29 (featuring improvements to the built-in help system)
• NetBSD 10.0 (which has been in development nearly 3 years!)
• The FreeDOS 28th Anniversary Ebook (the working title is Why We Love FreeDOS)
• Long shot: better support for GNU Guix to run on GNU Hurd

In order to make a change to the rules and tradition of anything, easy or not, it must be justified. Is there any reason to change the colors or rules concerning which player opens?

It would be prudent to mention these are Gemini protocol browsers, and don’t support HTTP. Great programs though, I use them too.

Opt-in seems like a reasonable position for this optional feature. Not everyone uses it. I don’t. To turn the question on its head:

Is there a compelling reason to enable it by default?

The comments you highlighted were some of the most bizarre things argued in the whole thread. Apparently copyleft just isn’t permissive enough for some people. Your counters are good!