Shinji_Ikari [he/him] @ Shinji_Ikari @hexbear.net

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I had that happen mixed with a lil sleep paralysis face down. I thought it was fuckin lights out.

I started using it about 8-9 years ago at this point, back when the options were FB messenger or whatsapp. Both were trash and limited in comparison.

I only use signal for work but I find the app clunky and unintuitive. Telegram, being a somewhat privacy nightmare, but not connected to a big data broker company, also gives me the ability to search through a decade of messages to find an old joke, a picture shared, etc.

Telegram is simple enough that I can tell my aging gen x parents and apathetic zoomer siblings to install it and there's nearly zero friction to them logging in and receiving messages. It solved the problem of being added to a new fucked up imessage groupchat every other week as an android user.

It's not great if security is your main goal for organizing, but it has a better user experience than most chat apps. Especially if cross platform chatting is important to you.

postin' from my 4th gen X1 Carbon running arch converted from antergos.

So what the ram is soldered, its 4lbs and still gets 7+ hours of battery life after 8 years of use.

Ah yes, the despicable crime of selling bootlegs can only be punished by permanent service to a billion dollar company. Makes sense.

doing something as drastic as this requires a pretty compelling reason

I've already had a couple people immediately retort "wow mental health is scary", then say "nobody will remember his name".

These people will shamelessly undermine any action then act disappointed that these actions are quickly ignored.

That's a feature, not a bug

I've done a few wiki posts and issues. I'm not a bad programmer but my ADHD makes the scaffolding around OSS contribution a lot harder than the actual programming aspect. So I've been sorta nervous to jump in.

Do you eat meat or condone people betting on horses? You know, actions that actually cause real suffering to real animals? Are you equally outraged abut that? Do you want those things banned, to protect the animals you claim to care so much about? Surely harm done to real victims is worse than harm done to fictional characters, right?

Oh my god they're trying to turn it into a vegan struggle session by comparing it to people betting on race horses

I thought blocking nsfw posts on mobile was bad enough until I tried viewing a totally SFW subreddit that was small enough to not be "verified". Straight up didn't let me view a subreddit that wasn't essentially approved without logging in or using the app.

I had to literally give up on a windows install that worked itself into an update hole, run the update, cant log in, undo the update, it tries to update at night. Endless cycle, no possible fix.

I don't want to berate you, but just know with enough practice, you'll be able to fix that linux install. Windows wont let you fix it.

I'm a fan of cmus. simple and easy.

Sorry cant hear you, too busy computing with the safety switched off and the action set to full auto.

Is your service fiber? Is your router a combined ONT and router? If its not and you have an ONT serving ethernet to the router, you can just plug your own router in.

You said it's through china mobile so is it a cell modem/router?

Yeah I actually just prefer the command line, I've never had to force myself to use it. I even tried using VSC for a bit recently but i couldn't get myself to like it. I just use nvim with some plugins in a tmux session now and its productive as hell.

Of course I don't browse the web with the command line. For merging branches, I always merge main into the working branch first, check conflict files, and go through the file finding the diffs and resolving them. I've used merge tools before that were sorta nice but I had my own issues with them.

Maybe it's the type of programming I do. I don't do any web stuff, so file count is down. For larger code bases I keep a non editor terminal up and will grep -re for word/phrase searching, find to look for specific files, etc. I'll occasionally use an IDE, typically eclipse based because embedded, but I don't find myself missing the features they add.

Thanks for the explanation, that does sound useful.

That's fair, there's plenty of uses for source control.

I was speaking from a programming context though, as this is a programming community.

I really never understood why one would need a GUI for git except for visualizing branches.

I feel like I'm crazy seeing so many people using clicky buttons for tracking files. I need like 4 commands for 95% of what I do and the rest you look up.

You're already programming! Just learn the tool!

And now there's a github CLI tool? I hate to beat a dead horse but Microsoft pushing their extended version of an open source tool/protocol is literally the second step of their mantra.

Lmao I remember growing up post 9/11 and seeing armed guards with MP5s at hockey games.

I have yet to meet an American who visited china who did not come back screaming praises for that country. When you mention their visits, they always grin even if it was a grueling work trip.