witx

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by witx 3y ago
I left emacs around 2018 or 2019 after 8 years of use as my main. A couple weeks ago I started configuring neovim to use it as my main editor outside of work. I'm doing mostly what I did back when I started with emacs which was copy an
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by witx 3y ago
And ideas like these (there are tons amongst longer emacs users) is part of the reason of why I left emacs after 8 years of running my own config. I just can't stand the reasoning "No no don't change things I like how they ar
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by witx 3y ago
> I don't understand what it has to do with custom ROMs. If I don't feel confident I'll be able to get a custom ROM working on my phone I'll have 2nd thoughts about erasing the original ROM
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by witx 3y ago
How so?
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by witx 3y ago
And why does it need to be compared to a religious belief? Why not just swearing on something impactful for him? It doesn't mean he is deifying Sagan. Why his he a clown again?
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by witx 3y ago
The point is simply not adhering to religious bs if you don't believe in it.
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by witx 4y ago
Walking, on a fast pace, is the best stress reliever and mind clearing activity for me. I still think about stuff but usually my mind wanders through unimportant stuff like books I'm reading, movies or even hobby projects. It's so
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by witx 4y ago
Windows needs to stop pushing news. FTFY
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by witx 4y ago
I actively dislike the subscription model as well and it's permeating into software products unfortunately. With this said I actually like Jetbrains' model where you pay something like a subscription but after 12 installments you
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by witx 4y ago
> sprouting body parts in random places seemingly overnight, only incidentally producing anything valuable. Maybe you don't actually need a thumb in your forehead in the first place, especially since it bleeds into your eye whenever
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by witx 4y ago
Yes, but the problem in my view is that for each of those small things we find useful they introduce tons of other features no one needs ...
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by witx 4y ago
I'm pretty sure they've been working on this, hence hardware locked, for 10 or more years. Not saying I agree with the choice as I'd prefer better quality images, but I understand their reasoning (if it really is as I said)
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by witx 4y ago
Never worked on this domain, so I might be wrong, but what I've heard is that usually for space stuff the hardware is chosen well in advance and "locked". So even if a new shinny thing is out probably it won't make it in
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by witx 4y ago
> Windows, Mac or Linux? Do I get a choice? Beware that if this is a hard-requirement for you, you might get "cheated" and or disappointed. They might tell you it's all fine that you use Linux, but then you go and see it&#
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by witx 4y ago
This is something that stresses me a lot. I care about fighting against these non-features but most people around don't care and have the mentality of "I have nothing to hide" I've lost count the amount of times I though
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by witx 4y ago
Spacemacs is bloated and changes too many things (keymaps, etc) wrt to the original configuration (at least a couple years ago when I tried it). Doom emacs is the way to go if you don't want to spend time rolling your own configuration
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by witx 5y ago
Yes you did: > You can do all of those things with children, and then you won't be a burden on society (...)
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by witx 5y ago
Because having kids with the mindset of: "I'll be a burden to them instead of the nursing home staff / society" is a great reason to have kids ...
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by witx 5y ago
It makes no sense in using a terminal that is not open source, has outgoing requests, telemetry, et al; requires login and is VC-backed: what's next to please the VCs? Track user input? Ads in your terminal? Subscription based? Besides
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by witx 5y ago
Stop buying crapware. Is there a chance you could do full install of a new OS?