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minimalism.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ In context of [technology](tech.md) minimalism is a design philosophy which puts
 
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sums it up with a quote: *we achieve perfection not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.*
 
-There is also the generalized concept of **life minimalism** which applies said philosophy to all areas of [life](life.md) and which many technological minimalists often start to follow as well -- life minimalism is about letting go of things and desires that aren't necessarily needed as such things enslave us; you should think about what it really is that you want and need and only keep that. This is nothing new, this wisdom has been present for as long as humans have existed, most religions and philosophers saw a great value in [asceticism](asceticism.md), frugality and even poverty, as owning little leads to [freedom](freedom.md). For example owning a [car](car.md) is kind of a slavery, you have to clean it, protect it, repair it, [maintain](maintenance.md) it, pay for parking space, pay for gas, pay for insurance -- that's a huge commitment eating up a huge part of your life and [head space](head_space.md), a minimalist will rather choose to get a simple [suckless](suckless.md) bicycle or travel by public transport.
+Minimalism is also an immensely important concept in [art](art.md), for example in architecture and design, and in addition there also exists the generalized concept of **life minimalism** which applies said philosophy to all areas of [life](life.md) and which numerous technological minimalists quite naturally start to follow along the way -- life minimalism is about letting go of objects, thoughts and desires that aren't necessarily needed because such things enslave us and mostly just make us more miserable; from time to time you should meditate a little bit about what it is that you really want and need and only keep that. Indeed this is nothing new under the Sun, this wisdom has been present for as long as humans have existed, most religions and philosophers saw a great value in [asceticism](asceticism.md), frugality and even poverty, as owning little leads to [freedom](freedom.md). For instance owning a [car](car.md) is kind of a slavery, you have to clean it, protect it, repair it, [maintain](maintenance.md) it, pay for parking space, pay for gas, pay for insurance -- this is not a small commitment and you sacrifice a significant part of your life and [head space](head_space.md) to it (especially considering additional commitments of similar magnitude towards your your house, garden, clothes, electronics, furniture, pets, bank accounts, social networks and so forth), a minimalist will rather choose to get a simple [suckless](suckless.md) bicycle, travel by public transport or simply walk.
 
 **Minimalism is necessary for [freedom](freedom.md)** as a free technology can only be that over which no one has a [monopoly](bloat_monopoly.md), i.e. which many people and small parties can utilize, study and modify with affordable effort, without needing armies of technicians just for the maintenance of such technology. Minimalism goes against the creeping overcomplexity of technology which always brings huge costs and dangers, e.g. the cost of [maintenance](maintenance.md) and further development, obscurity, inefficiency ("[bloat](bloat.md)", wasting resources), consumerism, the increased risk of bugs, errors and failure.
 
@@ -20,17 +20,18 @@ Up until recently in history every engineer would tell you that *the better mach
 - [Collapse OS](collapseos.md)/[Dusk OS](duskos.md), [collapse](collapse.md) computing
 - [less retarded software](lrs.md)
 - [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md)
-- [KISS](kiss.md) (see also [lightweight](lightweight.md))
+- [KISS](kiss.md)
 - [countercomplex](countercomplex.md)
-- [permacomputing](permacomputing_wiki.md)
+- [permacomputing](permacomputing_wiki.md) (SJW cancer warning)
 - [less is more](less_is_more.md)/[worse is better](worse_is_better.md)
 - [appropriate technology](appropriate_tech.md)
 - [neoluddism](neoluddism.md)
 - [reactionary software](reactionary_software.md) (bordering with [pseudominimalism](pseudominimalism.md))
 - [plan9](plan9.md), [openbsd](openbsd.md), KISS GNU/Linux and similar (however often obsessed with [bloatcryption](encryption.md), may contain [pseudominimalism](pseudominimalism.md))
 - [100rabbits](100rabbit.md) (beware of [SJW](sjw.md) poison)
-- [small Internet](small_internet.md), [gopher](gopher.md), [gemini](gemini.md) (not worth checking out: SJW, pseudominimalism and bloatcryption), web 1.0, ...
-- [primitivism](primitivism.md), [low tech](low_tech.md), [degrowth](degrowth.md), ...
+- [small Internet](small_internet.md), web 1.0, web 0.5, [gopher](gopher.md), [gemini](gemini.md) (watch out: gemini is SJW pseudominimalist bloatcryption poison), ...
+- [primitivism](primitivism.md)/[anarcho primitivism](anprim.md), [low tech](low_tech.md), ...
+- for potential weaker links to minimalism also check out [retro](retro.md)/[old](old.md)/[boomer](boomer.md) tech, [salvage computing](salvage_computing.md), [degrowth](degrowth.md), [Amish](amish.md), [technophobia](technophobia.md), [lightweight](lightweight.md) software, [fantasy consoles](fantasy_console.md) (sadly mostly pseudominimalism), communities around [plain text](plain_text.md), [pubnixes](pubnix.md), [IRC](irc.md) and so on.
 - ...
 
 Under [capitalism](capitalism.md) technological minimalism is suppressed in the mainstream as it goes against [corporate](corporation.md) interests, i.e. those of having monopoly control over technology, even if such technology is "[FOSS](foss.md)" (which then becomes just a cool brand, see [openwashing](openwashing.md)). We may, at best, encounter a "shallow" kind of minimalism, so called [pseudominimalism](pseudominimalism.md) which only tries to make things appear minimal, e.g. aesthetically, and hides ugly overcomplicated internals under the facade. [Apple](apple.md) is infamous for this [shit](shit.md).