You said “I use vim,” and I tremble.

It’s not “vim.” It’s vi—no, wait, it’s Neovim, technically, because the original vim is a closed-source fork of vim, which is a non-GPL free license, which means it’s not even properly FOSS, which means your entire identity as a “vim user” rests on a legal technicality that most vim users have never read and would stop using if Bram Moolenaar actually enforced it, which he can’t because of the way the vim project split in 2001, but you’d never know that because you peaked at :h i in third-grade sysadmin college.

Meanwhile, a mere coincidence of shared history lets you claim “modality” as a feature when it’s a limitation inherited from 1976 line-buffered editing constraints on a PDP-11. You haven’t “mastered the modal workflow,” you’ve spent ten years cargo-culting a workflow that existed because there were no multi-key strokes. Ctrl-X Ctrl-S isn’t “hard to learn,” it exists because GNU Emacs was built for a different input model in 1978, and you keep reading the fact that Emacs is a fully extensible Lisp environment where the UI itself is a reconfigurable application as “bloat” because your entire editorial philosophy is “my editor should do one thing or I will file a bug report with the universe.”

And you say “but vim starts faster,” and I weep. You measure 40ms of saved execve and call it productivity while GNU Emacs sits in daemon mode since boot, already loaded, already aware, waiting for your emacsclient invocation, and you’re stuck in a ssh session on a server you don’t have root on, and of course vim is there, because vi is on every POSIX system, which is exactly the point of POSIX, which is exactly why GNU Emacs added ess, org-mode, treemacs, magit, and a working calendar to the same binary you called “IDE-adjacent bloat” while I was, what, organizing my life?

You know what? Fine. Use your vim. Save your file. :wq. Walk away clean. I’ll be here, in a major I haven’t switched out of since 1994, with C-x C-f on :w q, because the point was never the file.

…

Anyway. It’s GNU Emacs, not “that one editor.”

Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with 11 cores.

I’m just jealous

2 separate bootloader partitions. Grub launches the windows bootloader on a different partition so it isn’t aware of anything other than itself. Then the 2nd bootloader actually launches windows. Don’t try to share one partition or else windows will inevitably wind up clobbering the Linux loader.

Noice setup. I’ve run Arch as a VM in proxmox for years now on my big pc. I also run HassOS, FreeNAS, and winblows10, but Arch gets the GPU. Nvidia ( I like Cuda) prevents you from sharing across VMs but with docker it’s easy. I just run docker on Arch for that. *You have to run Proxmox headless for this setup to work.

Joy Division shirt. checks out

Jokes on them. I’m a pirate who likes Linux.

Look on the bright side, you’re probably really good at sailing now.

Pfft, let me know when “Big Waffle” develops its own proprietary 6-nanometer syrup squares. Until then I will defer to the Belgians and their superior waffle technology.

fuck the police

don’t forget their lunchbox (BusyBox)

That motherfucker ruined tarnished dinosaurs too!? edit, i still like dinosaurs.

That’s why I always recommend double glasses.

They’ll probably date bones in the future by how much plastic is in them.

If I had to take a guess, it’s probably the most complex mechanical part in a mouse. The other buttons don’t have the added extra movements. I’ve had the same Razor Deathadder for like 15 years, still going strong. I’m just glad they don’t have actual rolling balls in them anymore.

Meanwhile, the CS lab is the polar opposite.

From the director Jerry Rees on an ama 14 years ago:

"The Kirby 500 series is very close to our Vacuum. Toaster was pretty much a simplified Sunbeam. Radio was like a distillation of lots of bakelite radios into one. I remember there was some discussion among the producers about putting eyes and a mouth on Radio. I pointed out that since he was a clock-radio, he already had a face. And his speaker, is his mouth. Glad they let go of the literal face idea. Blanky’s feel - not his model really - was like an insecurity blanket, because he was without his child to cuddle. Lampy was just a good ol’ bendy-neck. Thought he was bright, but he could be pretty dim sometimes.

Re the junkyard. It’s interesting that we were able to deal with mortality in a way that totally made sense (because cars really do get crushed there) but also went to extremes we could never have gotten away with if we’d used anything but inanimate objects."

I suspect this was a contributing factor in the divorce.

You mean “Our Computer”, comrade.

slaps the hood

You know how many CVEs this puppy can hold?

To each their own. I love plain 'ol vanilla Arch.