Radioactive Butthole

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Trying to get my family to use signal and its like pulling teeth. “Dont you want to be on the same messaging app as everyone”, “sure but you’re the one with a problem”

Mate, I only have a problem because of you!

You can pry Vim from my cold, dead hands!

My problem with forums is that they spiral out of control. Forum lovers see this as a huge plus but I’m not reading 1700 pages (not posts) of bullshit across three posts just to get to the current info.

Any time I see

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …, 653

At the bottom of a post I just click off the website and go somewhere else.

I really liked the client but HTML emails are a real pain in the ass.

AskJeeves!

Oh well if everyone is doing it then I guess its OK.

Oh no! Anyway…

Don’t kid yourself, they’re here. Make sure they know they aren’t welcome.

Very nice! I really like the direction Gnome is headed in.

I have a server with a RAID-1 array, that makes daily, weekly, and monthly read only btrfs snapshots. The whole thing (sans snapshots) is sync’d with syncthing to two rPi’s in two different geographic locations.

I know neither raid nor syncthing are “real” backup solutions, but with so many copies of the files living in so many locations (in addition to my phone, laptop, etc.) I’m reasonably confident its a decent solution.

So don’t do that if that’s important to you. I don’t. Besides, home assistant has its own local voice commands if you want them.

Honest question, do you use Home Assistant?

You must be here from c/all. Home Assistant is a self-hosted application and stores all of its data locally on hardware you own and control. If there’s data mining, its because you put it there yourself.

D’oh!

It is a text editor from the 50s or 60s, so right off the nat you aren’t getting a product you’re at all familiar with. Its been a while since I cracked it open but from memory you can only view one line of code at a time. You have to specify the line of code that you want to view, the commands are esoteric, and there is no help available in the application itself. As I recall it was pretty much immediately replaced with better editors, such as og vi.

Its sort of like programming in sed. Sure, you can, but why?

From Wikipedia:

Known for its terseness, ed, compatible with teletype terminals like Teletype Model 33, gives almost no visual feedback, and has been called (by Peter H. Salus) “the most user-hostile editor ever created”, even when compared to the contemporary (and notoriously complex) TECO. For example, the message that ed will produce in case of error, and when it wants to make sure the user wishes to quit without saving, is “?”. It does not report the current filename or line number, or even display the results of a change to the text, unless requested. Older versions (c. 1981) did not even ask for confirmation when a quit command was issued without the user saving changes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(software)

Ed is the most user unfriendly text editor ever created.

I think this is a really interesting read on the matter: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html

Christianity has gone completely off the rails and isn’t the answer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t a god.

Maybe god itself doesn’t have free will and is only acting according to a proscribed set of fundamental laws.