What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?
Isn't that making the problem worse though? If you have a tool that resolves your problem for you, wouldn't that make you dependent on it, and thus, be even more helpless when moving to another ecosystem (like, yeah, Arch)?
Arch is built for a particular kind of Linux user though, btw. It's probably the worst choice for a "not a computer person" move into, issues of dependency hell aside.
Having learned how to use computers via MS-DOS, then growing to mostly use Windows machines, and then moving to daily-drive Linux in the past handful of years, I think the problem is more about context. If I see an error message, it's not that I don't read them. Rather, if I lack the context to understand what it is trying to tell me—and more importantly, what I can do to resolve the problem I'm having, I'm out of luck and I'd have to ignore it.
It was when I switched to using Linux that I've picked up the habit of searching the error message online, and then browsing the various pages (mostly Stackoverflow, sometimes Arch Linux wiki pages) which might or might not lead me to the context behind the error message. If I get lucky, I could find a clue to resolving my problem on top of understanding what the error message is about. Other times, I end up being even more confused and give up.
And then there's the monstrosity that is the logs. I'm pretty much illiterate when it comes to them, and reading them might as well be reading arcane records of eldritch daemons keeping my machine working (in a way, they indeed are). Copy-pasting some snippets from them into an online search is a crapshoot. I may find something that fits my context, but a lot of times, it's for a different problem. It might not even be for my OS/distro/package/version.
Just to share a bit of perspective from the Philippine side here. The Philippine president before Duterte, Aquino Jr, was more proactive in advancing Philippine interests in the area. Then, Duterte started the shift away from the US and its allies to move closer to China. The current president, Marcos Jr, is way less pro-China than Duterte.
I suspect that Duterte and his campaign was funded by the Chinese to advance their interests in the country, including the disputed area. It's also worth noting that during his administration, the Philippines opened a lot more to the Chinese, with locals becoming resentful of the seemingly preferential treatment afforded to them. If that's not enough, there started popping up Chinese-owned (nominally Filipino-owned) offshore gaming entities which were manned by Chinese nationals (some of them were apparently housed in terrible conditions by their employers).
There might be more anti-Chinese sentiment here after Duterte than before him, oddly enough.
I was actually thinking of something like markdown or HTML forming the base of that standard. But it's almost impossible (is it?) to do page layout with either of them.
But yeah! What I was thinking when I mentioned a LaTeX-based standard is to have a base set of "modules" (for a lack of a better term) that everyone should have and that would guarantee interoperability. That it's possible to create a document with the exact layout one wants with just the base standard functionality. That things won't be broken when opening up a document in a different editor.
There could be additional modules to facilitate things, but nothing like the 90's proprietary IE tags. The way I'm imagining this is that the additional modules would work on the base modules, making things slightly easier but that they ultimately depend on the base functionality.
IDK, it's really an idea that probably won't work upon further investigation, but I just really like the idea of an open standard for documents based on LaTeX (kinda like how HTML has been for web pages), where you could work on it as a text file (with all the tags) if needed.
I was too young to use it in any serious context, but I kinda dig how WordPerfect does formatting. It is hidden by default, but you can show them and manipulate them as needed.
It might already be a thing, but I am imagining a LaTeX-based standard for document formatting would do well with a WYSIWYG editor that would hide the complexity by default, but is available for those who need to manipulate it.
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My comment is self-documenting, I swear!
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Because my work tends to have me working on a wide variety of features, and thus operating on vastly different parts of the codebase, I make it a point to comment out every change I make complete with the ticket that requested the change, and what the intended effect of the change is.
Cue me returning to piece of code I made (after the inevitable bug has arisen) and me staring at my own code changes in bewilderment, wondering what past me really wanted to do. Hahaha!
Hmm, yeah, there's that too, but unless you know the URL to use to access it from a different instance, it might be a bit hard (to access), isn't it?
Fortunately, there's a modlog for communities here in Lemmy.
Looking at it (currently the third in the list for removed posts), an admin removed it with the reason of “bad news source”. Not saying whether or not it's justified though, but at least we would know who to blame and why.
Ah! Those types of games. As an aside, IDK if the term “western role-playing video games” (western RPGs) suffices to cover them (as opposed to JRPGs), but yeah! Those kinds of things.
Also, I noticed that the comment I replied to has disappeared, and thus, this comment tree exists in some sort of a limbo.
I've just imagined a colony of them just chilling underneath my mattress and noped out of it.
You can't even "deprive them of food" like one would address cockroaches and rats (like secure and seal the hell out of any food, make sure that food crumbs are properly disposed of, etc) because we are their food. Is there even a benefit to having them around, because if there isn't, we probably should just eradicate them.
I thought D&D already has that covered? Lol! Also, some JRPG's, maybe.
What were you expecting? Serious question. Were you expecting a different table-top role playing game (TTRPG)? Or perhaps a different role playing game, like a Japanese role-playing [video] game (JRPG)? Or perhaps a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG)?
I don't know how large a one euro coin is, but even assuming it's as tiny as the tiniest coins we have here (15mm in diameter), those bedbugs are still terrifyingly huge! Now, having looked up how large a 1€ coin is (23.25mm), and estimating from the image, those bedbugs are around 5mm long!
... I thought they're huge, but having looked things up, it's right about average. I thought they're usually much smaller than that over here though (roughly 1mm in length). I probably have had the good luck of never having seen a bedbug in my life. Cockroaches though, are a normal part of life around here, hehe.
To add to this, artificial engagement is disingenuous. It's akin to corporate-owned comment sections inviting people to "speak their mind" which, of course, no one does.
It's a balance that should be kept: being willing to contribute, but not feeling forced to contribute. Quality begets quality, and if we compromise on quality chasing quantity, we would end up copying the worst of Reddit.
So when it comes to things like this, the main considerations are accuracy in transmission and comprehension of the message.
Ah, I see. That's why the encoding you detailed in your previous reply is such.
making physical signals a far easier method of communicating “HELP!!!” than becoming a kegel master.
This made me laugh out loud. But yeah! I was so fixated on making a butt plug-mediated communications protocol that I overlooked a far low-tech, but more effective method. And if detection is a danger, the gestures used can be changed up and agreed upon before the match. One match might have massaging the forehead as the signal, another match could have scratching behind the right ear.
And my theory about the butt plug being able to be smuggled through a metal detector is not based in a proven fact, but rather the assertion that if you could get one through a metal detector, which may or may not be possible, there would be no other checks in place to prevent a player from entering a hall with one.
I see. So we're both coming from the assumption of "if it were possible, how might it go?"
More complex cheaters (who do not use an accomplice) have in the past gone to the washroom to find a stashed chess computer, plug in the position, see what the computer thinks, and come back.
Isn't this easy to catch though? Inspect the restrooms players have access to and periodically inspect them when no one's using it. Of course, this doesn't stop a determined cheater stashing a small device inside a pack of wet wipes, for example. Heck, if I were in that situation, I'd probably just stash a smartphone inside a supposed pack of wet wipes. It's boring, not as sensational as a butt plug for sure, but if it works, it works!
Wait, I know you're referencing /r/Pyongyang, but did those guys move over to Lemmy? I mean, a North Korean-owned instance for /c/Pyongyang (and other communities for North Korean topics, etc) is possible, perhaps even better for DPRK's propaganda.
But then again, it might not make much sense for DPRK's propaganda since… well, numbers.
That's the way I've been taught by the guy who makes my eyeglasses too! I remember being slightly incredulous but took his word for it.
I only touch the lenses while soaping it, making sure that (liquid dish) soap is evenly distributed across the lenses. Then, I rinse them thoroughly in a stream of running water until I can no longer see water spots on their surfaces. I give the eyeglasses a slight tap to dislodge any excess water before wiping it with a dry clean cotton cloth I reserve for that purpose.
I would have wished my horrible mental image was just a figment of my imagination, lol! Reality is stranger than fiction, indeed.
I'm probably one of those weirdos who use VSCode, Kate, Nano, and sometimes KWrite all in their different niches.
I do most of my programming work in VSCode, but most of my shell scripting in Kate. When I edit configuration files, I'm usually using the command line and thus use Nano (sorry, I'm too stupid to use either Emacs nor Vim, let alone Vi). When I'm just looking at text files (or doing a quick edit) via my file manager, I use KWrite. With the exception of VSCode, they're all provided in my installation by default.
Having said that, trying out different editors will enable you to pick the editor that better fits your requirements. Kate is too powerful for what I use it for, but since it's already there, the additional features are nice to have. I actually had to explore a bit before I settled on VSCode for my programming work, and while there's probably one that better fits my needs, my workflow has already adapted to working with what I currently have.