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  • they might just carry on until this planet is molten

    The odds of true runaway warming are very low, the planet has both been much hotter and had much higher CO2 levels in the past. The Holocene is actually a cool period, geologically.

    We're just going to make it too hot to grow enough crops to feed the world.

  • Personally I don't like to rely on anyone's cloud services for mission critical applications like password storage, since they have a history of being discontinued without notice.

    I do trust Mozilla a lot more than Google, though.

    With Syncthing at least if the discovery servers go down you still have a local copy as well as off-site backups, and can easily migrate to some other sync solution as your password manager is not tied to your browser.

  • Zotify works very well at downloading Spotify lists, from playlists to whole discographies. You have to sort the output a little as you'll often get multiple copies of tracks due to remastered editions, songs released as singles etc. But overall it's an incredibly easy way to download music.

  • I'm a well armed Canadian leftist/labour unionist and people are always surprised by this combination (especially in Canada where non-conservative politicians are almost always gun grabbers). I always have to remind them two things:

    • left wing and "woke liberal" are two different things
    • when you get far enough to the left you find people aren't willing to give up their guns anymore
  • I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn't left home yet?

    Today she would probably be a student, but she isn't studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable "career path" in those days.

  • I used to love Perl as it worked the way my brain worked.

    Then I started taking medication for ADHD.

    I haven't used Perl since except for text parsing, it's an absolute hot mess of a language (though very powerful and functional at the things it does well)

  • Not really key position based, they're mostly things that match the letters like (i)nsert (a)fter (A)fter the whole line (d)elete (dd)elete a line (c)hange (C)hange rest of line.

    Then the fancier ones like ct (c)hange(t)o which will remove the text from the cursor to the next character you hit. i.e. go to the open quote of a string, ct" replaces everything up to the end quote.

    (c)hange(a)(w)ord will replace a word, (c)hange(a)(p)aragraph will replace a whole block... putting a number in front of the command will repeat it like 5dd to delete 5 lines.

    I agree the muscle memory is a big thing but I use vim on both Dvorak and QWERTY (when I happen to be on site and not wanting to mess with changing keyboard layouts) and while I'm slower, it's just the ordinary slowness that comes with not using QWERTY very often these days. I think of the commands as being the letters, not their positions.

    More to the point would be that if you're already an EMACS user maybe learning vim is not that important? Though it does tend to be more common to find some sort of vi on even minimal hardware than to find EMACS.

    Strangely I use QWERTY on my phone and would find Dvorak odd for this purpose.

    Edit: looks like ( c ) got turned into the copyright symbol thanks to some overeager parser

  • Been a vim user for decades but never used hjkl. Probably strongly correlated with the fact I'm non QWERTY as well (Dvorak). I just use the arrow keys combined with the jumps to start/end of lines/words or to characters.

    You don't need to remap anything aside from hjkl as the keybindings are mostly mnemonic and not location based.

    On Dvorak at least, ^C is so easy to press that it's great for switching modes, I never use Esc.

    I find the more time you've spent in non-graphical shells, especially on low spec devices or laggy connections, the more you appreciate vim. Instead of pressing Del a bunch of times and having it overrun you can ct" to swap out that string. I even use vim keys in vscode, as my hands are so used to them.

    My biggest complaint is logging into some legacy device that only has vi and not vim, when shortcuts like "dap" or "caw" don't work

  • EEV > TXV > Capillary tube, the evolution of expansion valves and pressure control in refrigeration units has been significant. The lower compression ratio you can run, the higher the COP.

    Cap tubes are what you find in basic and old window shakers, completely passive and only work well at one power point, TXVs control superheat which is a big improvement and are common in "ordinary" central units, EEVs allow full control of high and low side pressure and compression ratio and are seen in modern inverter drive/heat pump/mini split systems.

    Inverter drive compressors are a huge improvement too.

  • Ugh, Gnome 3... I used to be all in on Gnome, then went to Mate after the Gnome Shell days. Last year I came full circle to KDE and for whatever reasons I had to dislike it in the past, KDE Plasma is a damn good environment these days.

    Gnome used to be better for being simple and effective. Now you have to tweak it so much to get what you want, you might as well go with KDE.

    Qt feels more dominant in the cross platform space these days too, with more new projects choosing Qt over GTK

  • Honestly I've always been a Debian based guy but thought I would try Manjaro to see how an Arch based desktop would work.

    First distro I've ever run that worked absolutely, completely 100% out of the box and I've been a Linux desktop user for over 20 years. No proprietary drivers, graphics or networking issues, literally 10 minute setup. I would recommend it to a beginner for sure.

  • I have a few of these in my drawer, I only use this style as the Y-type are awful IMO. I like the whittling motion and not the scraping motion, it feels natural. All other styles are a gimmick.

    I just took a look. All have floating blades and my current favourite is probably the "Kuraidori" from Home Hardware. Lots of blade, not much guard, solid stiff single piece handle and thick blade. Blade is marked "Solingen Duo-Cut Germany".

    I farm, grow a lot of potatoes in my garden and they are a staple of my family's diet. I just go ham on the potato with that style of peeler, must be only a couple seconds per potato. I definitely overcut sometimes but as potatoes are nearly worthless to me compared to the peeling time, NBD.

    Another hot potato tip, I always pressure cook them if not baking or roasting. It turns out reliable results super fast and uses very little water.

  • Dice!

    Jump
  • Proprietary dice are just an hour of 3d printing away. I was curious what dice you were talking about so I looked them up, it appears the originals are hard to find but people are already selling printed dice to take up the slack.

  • Just pay for a VPN service... ~$5/month. Think of all the value you're getting for free through piracy, and realize that you're ultimately paying for egress bandwidth when you pay for a VPN service.

    Seriously, I have a lightweight cloud instance for various reasons but it would cost me more to route my download traffic through it than it does through Mullvad.

    You just can't get this kind of thing for free these days