These stupid vehicles and ones that are noisy for the sake of being noisy have one root element: attention. They’re designed to force you to pay attention to the owner. Admittedly it’s for negative attention, but still it’s a cry for help.

Too many people grow up where the only attention they can get is negative. Since humans crave any attention, they’ll seek it any way they know how. We’d rather get positive attention, but if you don’t have a source or tools to get it you’ll go negative in desperation.

I hate that these vehicles are designed to hurt people and they’re often on the road because the owner doesn’t know how to get attention any other way.

If he buys a longer truck, then maybe his dad will hug him just once.

Why does he keep coming back?

As the old joke goes: Emacs is great if you want to learn another OS.

I’m a barbarian vim user. Whenever I watch a real Emacs user operate a full dev environment inside of Emacs I’m always left stunned. It’s a whole universe of functionality, not just a refined line editor like vim.

That’s what I was taught at my first tech internship. It’s all they had on the UNIX system running the webserver in 1998.

I did write some web pages the pulled live data from the backend. I had the pleasure of writing them in C. I got the data binding to some kind of CORBA system using extern variables that were bound at compile time. All of the html (no js or css yet) was hand built and generated from the C code.

vi was the only editor on the system and there was no way to use arrow keys (the UNIX system didn’t have them on the keyboard at all).

I also had the displeasure of building a backup system on a floppy where I had to write a bat script that could manually load a token ring driver, bind a SMB share, load Ghost backup software and backup the local hard drive at under 2mb (yay coax thicknet). The tool used to query and write through the hostname for the backup? Copycon. Fucking copycon in DOS. That showed me how a terrible (but working) tool could be to work with.

Unless an editor can do reasonable vim emulation, I can’t take it seriously. You’re welcome to use it, but I won’t be able to get anything done in it quickly. The vi keys are too ground into my reflexes.

Jedgras is either a non-native English speaker who is unaware of how their prose reads, an asshole, or a troll.

I gave udm14 a look. It’s a good tool in the toolbox.

Use what works for you.

Develop what scratches your itch.

Don’t tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.

If you want a solution that’s non-systemd go for it. If it doesn’t exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That’s the way of the Bazaar.

I’ll be in my unenlightened “things work for me good enough” Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I’m not even sure I can remember any.

Huge thank you’s to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!

Back in about 2010-ish? One of the first “amazon deletes your book remotely” events happened. They removed a Kindle version of 1984 from people’s readers.

I don’t know how much irony fits into an irony singularity, but Amazon is trying to make the most irony ever.

No. Full stop NO.

It’s my computer and my family. Stop trying to justify yet more tracking us in our own homes and on our own devices. Get fucked.

OP is also complaining because he is trying to pirate the game. The process of stripping the DRM is better documented on Windows than on Linux, and somehow it’s the fault of the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of “protecting the children with age verification” is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It’s the same war we’ve been fighting for 30 years now.

Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90’s. What’s old is new again.

About half of Oklahoma was recently returned. That’s still working it’s way through the various fallouts.

Don’t worry, Maine’s senator will look grumpy and then vote yes, fucking over millions of people and destroying our healthcare system (even more). But Maine will re-elect their Senator anyway because… They love sending their best, I guess?

If you have to tell everyone you’re a king, then you’re not a king.

I used to be intrigued by tiny homes. They’re enough room for one or two people, but not a place I’d try to raise a kid.

I recently went from a 3k sq ft US home to a 1100sq ft apartment and this apartment feels big. The difference mostly centers around how much furniture and other home maintenance materials I used to have.

It also helps that we moved to a European city so we don’t have a car and related support equipment.

Looking at a 350 sq ft tiny home, if it was just down to myself and a partner, we could do it. The whole goal would be to not spent huge amounts of time at home, but to go to 3rd places and hobbies away from home. Rural or suburban living makes that harder than where we’re at now, but it’s doable.

Wrong API? Wrapper pattern time!

I guess they’ve got spare time now that everyone in the Epstein-Trump files have been brought to justice for the child rape and Dow is over 50,000.

Ist this the same kind of shit the government pulled in the 1950’s with Elvis’ early performances? These evil people really do want to bring back the 1950’s.

This kind of stupid: http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-sex.html

Vertical spinning wheels to pick the hours suck donkey balls. WTF is up with those? You want to set it to 9 pm, so we get to spin the hour wheel up and down until we hit 9, then it always defaults to the current minute, so you get to spin it up and up and up and up until you get to 00 minutes, overshoot to 05, and then dial it back down.

There’s WAY better solutions for this available. Why use the ones invented 25 years ago?

Bingo. You’ve nailed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

This has all the “you can’t quit, you’re fired!” Feeling that comes with any six year old throwing a tantrum on the playground. Once again, MAGA is led by a child.