https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

No, nobody else does. It’s just you.

The fuck is this question?

Coming soon: “Does anybody else hate it when they get a paper cut?”

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.

Yes, started using vi when I started using a Unix login at university. That was in about 1994 or so. When I started using Linux it was definitely vim.

I’ve tried using evil-mode and vim keybindings in other editors. I somehow keep coming back to vim, though.

Take your EV in for its smug check

With the current fuel prices, every EV will pass its smug check :-D

Oh, I didn’t realise that! Apparently security updates come to unstable and stable before they go to testing.

I kind of like having up to date packages. Now I’m not sure whether I should rather switch to Sid, or watch the vulnerable source package list.

Yeah, that tracks - I came back to Debian after a few years on Ubuntu, and even before I returned, I removed snap from my Ubuntu system.

I get that if you have the money, it’s stupid to finance a car purchase, but you can do that without slapping a bundle of banknotes onto their desk.

My landlord wanted me to pay the deposit in cash, and I said no, and did a bank transfer instead. If I get mugged on the way to his office, or discover after the transaction that he’s a scammer, that money is gone. And I don’t see any advantage to me to pay with physical money.

Of course, if I had gotten the money in cash because I’d been working off the books, or if I’d gotten it through some criminal activity, I’d have been very happy to have the opportunity to use the cash.

A friend of mine had a husband who did carpentry and got paid cash under the table, and so they bought all their groceries in cash, so that they didn’t have to declare the income. Not the way I’d like to live.

That’s not what this law is about. This is about banning the use of banknotes for large transactions.

It’s not about credit vs buying outright, it’s about banning the use of actual banknotes for large transactions. That’s a popular way to launder money and hide income for tax evasion.

Same with a 50 something walking into a car dealership with a briefcase full of cash. Or a 40 something buying a condo in Munich with cash. Something ain’t right here.

Depends a bit on what you want to do.

Debian stable tends to have rather old versions of everything, but Debian testing (currently codename Forky) is really nice. I installed it a few months ago on my ThinkPad, and it’s running beautifully.

I’m not in it for the uptime, so I shut down whenever I’m done and when I shut down, I do an update / upgrade, and there’s always something being upgraded. I’ve had zero issues with stability or performance.

I have no experience with Arch, so I can’t really compare.

multiple times a month I’d say it just randomly charges to 100% regardless

That’s intentional on Pixel phones - from https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7106961

To keep its battery capacity readings accurate, your Pixel needs to fully charge at every 10th cycle. This applies even if you have the “Limit to 80%” option turned on. To finish the process, leave your phone plugged in for at least 30 minutes after the screen shows 100%.

OK, to save you all a click: he’s saying that he’s using AI to triage tips, so that they can process all the tips that come in, and that way they’ve been able to stop two school shootings.

What dogshit journalism. “They claim they’ve stopped (a few) school shootings” gets shortened to “They’ve stopped school shootings”, so that you’ll think J Edgar Boozer is claiming to have stopped all school shootings, and click the article so that they get those sweet ad dollars.

Maybe someone can confirm how they know that those kids were definitely going to shoot up their schools and aren’t just suspected of having wanted to do it.

Yep, amazingly flexible. If Linus had only ever made git, he’d have gone down as one of the greats.

That’s the genius of git: it’s not tied to any website. Pull your repo from here and push it to there and you’re cooking.

I’ve always been doing apt dist-upgrade. What’s the difference between dist-upgrade and full-upgrade?

By now, I’d be surprised if any OF people ever answer anything by hand. I mean, apart from the environmental impact, why not get a machine to answer the 100th “OMG, you’re so hot!” that you get on any given Sunday?