When you said compute minimalism, I thought you were going to talk about using a RISC-V processor and using Emacs for any text editing. I'd say that's the real compute minimalism. xD

Surely there is no universe in which Emacs hits the definition of a minimal anything?

Good ol' Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping holds up well these days when the competition is stuff like vscode. But yeah, I think vim is probably a bit more minimal.

Look, as long as nobody looks inside my .doom.d directory nobody has to get hurt.

> beside social media minimalism I am also a big fan of compute minimalism. I don't use VScode with 100+ plugins or a zsh maxed up with so much bells and whistles

That’s what I thought the article would talk about. If it were social media, I’d rather buy a cheap used phone, put the app on it, and turn it on only when I want to check something. Then it’s off. But I deleted/haven’t logged into my accounts for years now.

As for as minimal compute goes. my daily driver is an old laptop I put OpenBSD on. I also have an m1 air that I mostly use for shopping and meeting. Then an iPad for reading. But the key thing is that app and software are tools. It’s either tied to an activity (even relaxing ones) or it’s not used. No ricing or theming, just basic configuration to get the job done.

Twitter is still super relevant in crypto circles (you can see for example the (ex) binance CEO using it to give updates about their latest scandal) so I think Vitalik at the very least has financial interests in keeping a presence there.

But then again, he's already fabulously wealthy and could just walk away from the space forever if he wanted to and be just fine.

If I were him I'd just hire a person to handle comms on it for me but I suppose that's not really minimalism.