Not Vim? WTF?

I’d buy that for a dollar.

I absolutely hate all this container shit, for my uses. That said, they make sense when you need to sandbox applications for whatever reason, but most of those uses seem like they would be better served with VMs.

I get the vim frustration. The first Linux distro I used shipped with a broken x-server and vi(m) (late 90s) as the editor, so it was definitely jumping in with both feet. It was Vim or Emacs, and Emacs seemed like more than I was willing to take on at the time. It’s kind of annoying how much other editors frustrate me now. I know a lot of people are OK with nano, or whatever editor, but every time I find myself not using vim to edit these days it freaking kills me.

It always makes me kind of sad when people disparage CLI use. It’s like people thinking they don’t need to actually learn anything because they can always look up what they need to know on their phone. It seems a shame to miss so much of the richness of the experience. I found myself arguing, promoting, whatever, terminal use a few times and then realized how pointless it is. It’s like arguing with someone about what food they like. You can just hope they develop a more sophisticated palate at some point, or at least become more open-minded, but you can’t force it on them.

This was a long way to get around to saying I like that you had that change of frame and are embracing the fun of personalizing your interactions with your computer.

For anyone who loves Vim, Vimwiki is freaking great. I’ve been using it for many years. I’m not sure if it’s still being updated anymore, and I’ve never been able to find a mailing list or anything along those lines though.

Unless you have a real reason not to use X11, why not just use X11?

I stopped sitting in on interviews at my old job. Everyone that I thought was a great interview ended up being a shitty employee.

• update:

Hotkey open terminal -> sudo apt update/upgrade -> done. Never had to touch the stupid mouse. Same with all sorts of tasks.

• email:

Hotkey open terminal -> neomutt -> quickly sort/delete/reply -> done. Never had to touch the stupid mouse.

• file transfer:

Hotkey open terminal -> scp -> done. Never touched the mouse.

and so on.

If you like using a GUI, use a GUI. I’m not saying you can’t, but you sure are missing out on a lot of command-line awesomeness. I’ve never heard anyone argue that a GUI is quicker than command line, just more comfortable for a lot of neophytes. I mean, sure, gaming, browsing the web, graphics stuff, GUIs are great, if not essential.

Not using the terminal is like buying a race car and not using the higher gears. I mean, you can, but what’s the fucking point?

I don’t know if I’m alone on this, but I just bought the biggest 5400rpm HDD that was in my price range when I set up. Might notice the slower speed when doing a big data dump, but for streaming purposes you can run many 4k streams concurrently and the bottleneck would probably be your network speed before you hit a drive read bottleneck.

(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2

Math checks out from this end.

This comment section gives me hope for this platform.

It seems like every other captcha I get has a picture of a moped and asks to click for a motorcycle. When I don’t click on the moped it says I’m wrong. Pisses me off.

People need to spend a little time at a nudist resort. They’d learn real quick that naked isn’t sexual.

Easy there Black Mirror.

Anyone who wasn’t around then can’t really know what they missed.

The majority just give enough to lessen their tax burden. Should have at least a 50% wealth tax on anyone on the Forbes 400. Fucking vampires.

I was working in a record store at the time, and I knew the soundtrack way before I saw the movie. I still break it out at least once every year or so and play it through.

No mention of how fucking good the original Crow soundtrack was.