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I think I missed part of the story. Is there something wrong with Vim 9? Is it heavily LLM-driven now? That's the only hint I could find on the Vim Classic site.

I love Unicomp and fully support their goal of keeping these switches alive, but I had a similar experience. The controller on the keyboard died after about a year. Meanwhile all of my 30+ year old IBM Model M's continue to work flawlessly.

This was the same time, around 2013, so I like to hope things have improved since then. I know they did switch the controllers they use in the intervening years and they also replaced the original IBM tooling for the other parts of the keyboard, so hopefully things are in better shape now.

Progress! When I was in school we weren't allowed to leave class OR have a water bottle. If you had food... good luck, that was like the worst school crime for some reason.

Good. I'm sure this is a controversial take in our brave new world, but not everything has to be aimed at the lowest common denominator. It's refreshing to have something that isn't dumbed down for "the average user" and forces people to actually learn how to do something for a change.

I hope Linux never succumbs to the lowest common denominator and people who actually enjoy tinkering will always have somewhere to go and something to learn. If that's being stuck, I hope it stays stuck.

I'm not sure this is the type of depression being talked about here. It's unfortunate that we have conflated periods of being sad / down with clinical depression. I have no doubt that reading a book or cleaning the kitchen or accomplishing a goal can help with feeling down or general sadness, but clinical depression is a whole separate beast without such easy a fix.

I use menus all the time...

I much prefer text to inscrutable icons.

That may not be because they like it but because they're required to use it. The teachers in my area, at least, are mandated to use AI themselves and integrate it into their curriculum.

It also doesn't help when we have programs like Accelerated Reader. The original goal of the program, from what I understand, was to encourage reading by rewarding kids for succeeding at reaching goals. Unfortunately, schools decided rewarding was bad and punishing was good. So instead of being an optional reward-driven approach, it became a mandatory part of your grade.

This sort of thing makes kids resent reading. Especially kids, like me, who were given extremely unrealistic goals to meet because they happen to have a high reading level. Plus you're restricted to books that are: 1. Your exact reading level. 2. In your school library. 3. Have A.R. tests available. That, especially in smaller schools, is an extremely difficult set of criteria for meeting a goal. It made me HATE reading because there were no books of any interest to me, but I had to read the most bizarre (and, frankly, age inappropriate) things to meet the goal and get a good grade.

Bring back Pizza Hut and toss A.R. back in hell where it came from.

I see, sorry to waste your time. I thought the list was meant to be informational for people to assess which applications were problematic. I didn't realize it was more of a call to action.

A couple not on the list:

OpenMTP.app (Electron 18.3.15)

DiffusionBee.app (Electron 13.6.9)

I'm trying to give it a chance but it's kind of rough.

- File save dialog has a massively reduced width sidebar. It has a resize handle. But the resize handle does nothing. This is the most infuriating thing for me because all of my sidebar locations are cut off. - M4 Pro Macbook Pro and I'm now experiencing stuttering when scrolling. - Why is everything in Spotlight enormous?! Was it always like this and I just seemingly never noticed?

Otherwise, if you 'reduce transparency' and turn off 'tint window background with wallpaper color' (both of which I had done already anyway), things are decidedly nicer visually.

It's important to conceal your identity because the internet is forever. Your comments, opinions, beliefs, embarrassing moments... all recorded (essentially) for life. This happens through administration changes, different jobs, life changes, belief shifts, different friends and partners, etc. Without anonymity, anybody can comb through your entire history to make any point they want. To justify any accusation about you they want using 'evidence' from years past. To stalk or harass. To fire you for daring have an opinion about something. Depending on your government, to arrest you for what you've said in the past.

A huge issue with the modern web is that everything is seen as a profit motive. I don't care how many billions of dollars tracking everything we do and tying it to our person is worth. I don't want it.

It was a thing, yeah. The schools around here didn't care. Kids were all on their phones during class, walking through the halls, during lunch, etc. Teachers gave up telling them to put them away because the students ignored them and teachers have no authority anymore. They can ask nicely and that's the extent of their power (at least in my district).

It was quite the shock when the statewide ban happened. Parents and students alike are still complaining about it.

Why would you enjoy making worker's lives just a little more difficult? :\

I was sort of on board until the Tandy 1000. It's disingenuous at best to assume that your phone can replace it because it 'does games and word processing'. A phone, no matter how much you like it or how much you can do with it, does not replace an actual personal computer. A phone is a locked down appliance running software written on personal computers. By design, you will never be able to truly explore the system or get it to do anything you can dream. You can do what the software designers / managers want you to do and that's it. (Obviously there are exceptions, but those exceptions are rapidly diminishing.)

These old PCs encouraged exploration, expansion, tinkering, and development. They were true personal devices that you could do whatever you wanted with. Phones are personal in that they know everything about you but they will never match the freedom and exploration of a personal computer.

I truly feel like we've lost something special with the move to smartphones and tablets. :(

Thank you for mentioning this. You often see comments like the OC that are dismissive of articles and seem to think people doing one thing know everything about that thing. I guess when people get to a certain level themselves, they forget that others have to learn things too and don't implicitly know all of the things that you know. I really do appreciate seeing your comment gently reminding people that learning is a thing that has to happen and should be encouraged.

The Gemini CLI tool is atrocious. It might work sometimes for analyzing code, but for modifying files, never. The inevitable conclusion of every session I've ever tried has been an infinite loop. Sometimes it's an infinite loop of self-deprecation, sometimes just repeating itself to failure, usually repeating the same tool failure until it catches it as an infinite loop. Tool usage frequently (we're talking 90% of the time) fails. It's also, frankly, just a bummer to talk to. The "personality" is depressed, self-deprecating, and just overall really weird.

That's been my experience, anyway. Maybe it hates me? I sure hate it.

I would say cost is a factor. Maybe not for OP, but many people aren't able to spend $135 a month on AI services.

Man, things had character back then. Everything is so flat and boring now.

More importantly, though, Raymond Chen is an absolute treasure. I love these posts.

I don't really have anything to add to the conversation at hand, but Photopea looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

I, for one, appreciate a simple design. "Modern" tends to end up being bloated and slow.

To add to this, MOO is just an interpreter and very basic network manager. All of the logic for controlling the actual game or environment is inside the database in interpreted MOO code. (You also have control over the network from inside. The server is just handling TCP bookkeeping, basically.) This means, for instance, that you can implement whatever permission system you want. One of the earlier examples is JHCore, which offers different groups of permissions. Really the only server-enforced permission levels are the wizard, which is essentially root, and the programmer. Everything else is up to you.

I'm not positive on the history of the recycler, but I think you have it backwards. It actually exacerbated the problem of using literals in code because you couldn't guarantee that the object you wrote in the code is the same object 20 years later. This created security concerns (imagine you hard-code an object number into your code and now the object is owned by a completely different person who can write their own code on that object. So your code called #123:innocent_function(), which the new object owner has programmed to do something malicious) at worst and broken code at best.

I assume the reasoning was two-fold: First, huge numbers are a pain to type. And in MOO you do end up typing object references a lot. And second, in the early 90's, memory was at a premium. Even a recycled object is using some memory (it still has a space in the object list).

Anyway, if anybody is interested, MOO is still kicking! There's a fork called ToastStunt (https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt) that offers some slightly more modern conveniences. And the community has, mostly, converged into the ToastStunt Discord channel.

Kind of off topic, but I don't think it necessarily makes one a robot. Some people enjoy quiet moments and spend time organizing their thoughts, imagining things, thinking through problems, or just enjoying a relatively calm and thoughtless period. I suppose you can think of it as just a different form of entertainment driven internally rather than externally.

I really appreciate any moment I can get where I'm not inundated with stimuli.

Here's the video without any news overlay: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1YfVmkgXgwGVcxdqW...

Gentoo is there for you!

/r/CreaturesGames/ - Discussion about the Creatures artificial life simulation games. I haven't seen anything particularly cringey on it.

Even if the price is the same, "old" distribution models have benefits. If you're satisfied with your current version and it still works, no need to continue paying. If you maintain older systems, your software still works without continuing to pay in perpetuity.

I much prefer buying software licenses outright than renting them forever.

MOOs have been around forever and are like more-easily programmable MUSHes. Educational institutions loved them back in the day. There's even still development of the MOO server, active social MOOs, websites running MOO as the webserver... lots of fun stuff!

If there's any interest:

Archived MOO knowledge: https://lisdude.com/moo/ Modern MOO server: https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt/ Active social MOO: https://chatmud.com/

It's kind of like Valgrind and was (is? I'm not sure.) used for finding memory leaks.

I have a 256 GB Macbook Air and losing 9 GB would make me cry. :(