Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, best known for Le Petit Prince, wrote in Terre des hommes that:

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.

This is normally translated to English as:

Perfection is finally obtained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there’s no longer anything to take away.

This philosophy can also be applied to software. The UNIX adage “make each program do one thing well” encourages slim applications that are not bloated with features or dependencies.

Time management is a tricky business. Ideally we should spend our precious time in Earth doing things that we’re interested in for as long as we want. Unfortunately that’s not how the life of a modern human works. We have responsibilities, chores, busy work, etc. We have activities that we enjoy doing, and tasks that we have to get over, and ideally we should make progress in all of them. We’re in a constant state of context switching. Additionally, we need to take regular breaks to ensure our brain is not overly engaged.

...puesto que es mejor ser loado de los pocos sabios que burlado de
los muchos necios, no quiero sujetarme al confuso juicio del
desvanecido vulgo, a quien por la mayor parte toca leer semejantes
libros.

  — Don Quixote, Chapter XLVIII

Loosely translated by me, Cervantes says that “given that it’s best to be praised by a few wise than mocked by many fools, I don’t want to hold on to the confusing judgment of the faded layman, to whom, for the most part, it falls to read such books.”

Running Emacs as a systemd service should be relatively straightforward if using its Debian package, given that it comes with a systemd unit.

Greetings, and welcome to another round of Debian contributions.