Cyclohexane @ cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

West Asia - Communist - international politics - anti-imperialism - softwar

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I've wanted to try emacs but have been afraid to do so. I like that emacs basically replaces your terminal and just has a semi-OS inside. But I heard the performance is lacking. What do you think?

Do you mean keybindings? I can see that some keybindings are more chording-heavy. I think default keybindings, while nice, should be secondary, as they can be remapped.

That's a fair argument, thanks for showing me the other perspective!

Imho, I prefer an editor that focuses on doing editing right, and provides the interface and APIs for integration with other things. I get the appeal of built-in LSP working OOTB, but I prefer this gets done by distributing the a good editor pre-packaged with LSP and other plugins, sort of like how you get lunarvim or nvchad as neovim with config and plugins ready. This way you get LSP out of the box, but others can customize if they need.

helix [...] shares kakounes keybindings and input system

I get that it is inspired from it, but it felt like a strange in-between to me. It still has 3 modes, and the two non-insert modes seemed not to have a well-defined boundary. It didn't just click with me. Kakoune seems to do it much better imho.

You can do this [shell integration] in vim and helix as well

I know vim has some basic she'll integration, but it is not the same as Kakoune's, unless I missed those features in vim and helix. I don't wanna duplicate things, so I recommend you read the shell section of this page: https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

I haven't tried this yet, so I can't answer on Kakoune, but it was something that bothered me in neovim. I use a tiling window manager, and like having the editor tiles be managed by the tiling app. I'll try that out sometime

I have no issue pirating:

• any content with massive profits
• any content made by a very rich entity
• any content where the artists, authors, creators, et al get a minority of the revenue (example: scientific journals, college textbooks). I always search for alternate methods of paying the artists directly if they exist.

None. Arch repos + AUR have the highest availability of any Linux repository.

You can look at the PKGBUILD file and update it yourself. Most of the time it's just a version bump and you're good. If that's the case, I think you can also take over maintaining it if you want to share the wealth.

Or turks. Or Moroccans. Or Africans.

I don't use flatpak. But if your distro does, I imagine it should be pretty easy for them to provide a higher level program that updates both types of packages at once. I think this isn't a big problem.

I never go to whole foods. I wish I did, just so I can start wearing a BLM mask going there. But don't wanna give them any of my money for protesting.

Idk about OP, but from my experience, you can speak German perfectly correctly, but have an accent, and that will make your job search many times harder, because they know you're not "German". I highly doubt this is about skill.

Americans do a lot of stupid things, but they are most likely to be self critical in this space. I think this meme should talk about Western Europe instead, because they have many problems, but they are so often never willing to accept criticism. They're quick to call the US racist, but in my experience, Europe has so much racism it's crazy it's viewed as this anti racist place.

I'm sure Godot will become a lot more popular. There are exceptions to the rule. But in general, FOSS isn't winning the software field. But I agree with you and sympathize.

If AWS was open source, you wouldn't be protected from a similar incident. You're primarily using them for servers and infrastructure.

Idc about open source purism personally. I'm okay with open source projects making it difficult for corporate users to make profit and contribute nothing back.

It's open source enough for me. The code is open, contributions are accepted, forking is doable. That's what matters.

Wayland isn't to blame for duplicate effort. Instead of 4 different efforts doing the same thing, they can collaborate to build a common base. Heck, wlroots is exactly that.

There's a ton of duplicated work in Linux ecosystem. Just think about every new distro coming out doing the same things other distros did. Just think about all those package managers on different distros. They do almost the same thing. Do they need to have codebases that share nothing? No. But they don't care. They rather duplicate effort. They chose this.

The US is quite open about money's involvement in politics. Search "Citizens United" as an example.

Sadly it will never. The average consumer does not care to do their own research, and will always fall for options with a marketing budget, even when FOSS options are similar or better quality. Now consider that often times (not always), FOSS is not up to the same quality.

Disclaimer: I always use FOSS when I can, even when lower quality.

I agree it's the BSD license. That's what I mean. It's a license that places no restriction on corporate use without contribution.

Unfortunately not enough. It still allows corporate use with limited restrictions. Only derivative work that gets distributed must be open sourced, and even then, they can choose to provide source only to those requesting it in inconvenient ways (ex: come pick up the flash drive from our office).

For example, android does not require open sourcing, despite GPL'd Linux, but because it's not derivative work.

And yet it is still a prevalent idea in FOSS that open sourcing without restrictions on corporate use will karma back to you positively somehow.

Non-corporate FOSS should be way more popular.